The Aesthetics of Belonging: indigenous urbanism and city building in oil-bloom Luanda
Join us for a discussion with Claudia Gastrow on her latest book, The Aesthetics of Belonging Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Bloom Luanda. Claudia will be joined by Gisa Weszkalnys (Anthropology, LSE), Alicia Lazzarini (Geography, Exeter), and Mike Degani (Anthropology, Cambridge).
Meet our speakers
Claudia Gastrow is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. Gastrow is focused on questions of urbanism, with a particular focus on Africa. Her work examines urban planning, self-built housing, informality, urban governance, architecture, and practices of urban inclusion and exclusion.
Gisa Weszkalnys is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Alicia Hayashi Lazzarini is a human and economic geographer whose research explores contemporary and colonial investment in Africa.
Mike Degani is an anthropologist of infrastructure and energy in Africa and beyond at the University of Cambridge.
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