Bettina Ng’Weno No Place Like Home in a New City review, recensie en informatie boek over Anti-urbanisme en het leven in Nairobi, Kenia. Op 9 september 2025 verschijnt bij University of California Press het boek over Nairobi van Bettina Ng’Weno, Professor of African American and African Studies aan de University of California, die in Kenia geboren is.
Bettina Ng’Weno No Place Like Home in a New City review en recensie
Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van No Place Like Home in a New City, Anti-Urbanism and Life in Nairobi, het boek geschreven door Bettina Ng’Weno, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.
No Place Like Home in a New City
Anti-Urbanism and Life in Nairobi
- Auteur: Bettina Ng’Weno (Kenia)
- Soort boek: boek over Nairobi de hoofdstad van Kenia
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: University of California Press
- Verschijnt: 9 september 2025
- Omvang: 238 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: $ 34,95
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van het boek van Bettina Ng’Weno over de stad Nairobi in Kenia
Nairobi, known as the Green City in the Sun, has taken shape through anti-urban ideologies that insist that the city cannot be home for most residents. Based on decades of experience in rapidly changing Nairobi, No Place Like Home in a New City traverses rivers, cemeteries, parks, railways, housing estates, roads, and dancehalls to explore how policies of anti-urbanism manifest across time and space, shaping how people live in Nairobi. With deeply personal insights, Bettina Ng’weno highlights how people contest anti-urbanism through their insistence on building life in the city, even in the current dynamic of ubiquitous demolition and reconstruction. Through quotidian practices and creative resistance, they imagine alternatives to displacement, create belonging, and build new urban futures.
Bettina Ng’weno was born in Nairobi, Kenya. She is Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis and author of Turf Wars: Territory and Citizenship in the Contemporary State.