Across Africa and elsewhere, colonialism promised to deliver progress and development. In urban spaces like Zanzibar, the British vowed to import scientific techniques and practices, ranging from sanitation to urban planning, to create a perfect city. Rather than remaking space, these designs often unraveled. Plans were formulated and then fell by the wayside, over and over again. By focusing on these flawed efforts to impose colonial order, William Cunningham Bissell offers a different view of colonialism and cities, revealing the contradictions, confusion, and even chaos that lay at the very…mehr
Across Africa and elsewhere, colonialism promised to deliver progress and development. In urban spaces like Zanzibar, the British vowed to import scientific techniques and practices, ranging from sanitation to urban planning, to create a perfect city. Rather than remaking space, these designs often unraveled. Plans were formulated and then fell by the wayside, over and over again. By focusing on these flawed efforts to impose colonial order, William Cunningham Bissell offers a different view of colonialism and cities, revealing the contradictions, confusion, and even chaos that lay at the very core of British rule. At once an engaging portrait of a cosmopolitan African city and an exploration of colonial irrationality, Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar opens up new perspectives on the making of modernity and the metropolis.
William Cunningham Bissell is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Lafayette College, Easton, PA. He has written widely on sociocultural processes in Zanzibar and the Indian Ocean world, with a specific research focus on urban transformation, representation, memory, and media in diverse contexts, including the anthropology of nostalgia and the reimagining of the revolutionary past. His first book, Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar (2011), focused on the failures and contradictions of modernist colonial urban planning, while his current ethnographic work centers on transnational media, urban image-making, and the contested politics of contemporary African film festivals.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Landscapes of Power and Planning 1 Cosmopolitan Lives, Urbane Worlds: Space and Society in Zanzibar City 2 Uncertain States: Colonial Practices and the Ambiguities of Power 3 Colonial Cartographies: Struggling to Make Sense of Urban Space 4 Disease, Environment, and Social Engineering: Clearing Out and Cleaning Up the Colonial City 5 Development and the Dilemmas of Expertise 6 Failures of Implementation: Circularity and Secrecy in the Pursuit of Planning 7 Disorder by Design: Legal Confusion and Bureaucratic Chaos in Colonial Planning Conclusion: Reflections on Planning, Colonial Power, and Continuities in the Present Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: Landscapes of Power and Planning 1 Cosmopolitan Lives, Urbane Worlds: Space and Society in Zanzibar City 2 Uncertain States: Colonial Practices and the Ambiguities of Power 3 Colonial Cartographies: Struggling to Make Sense of Urban Space 4 Disease, Environment, and Social Engineering: Clearing Out and Cleaning Up the Colonial City 5 Development and the Dilemmas of Expertise 6 Failures of Implementation: Circularity and Secrecy in the Pursuit of Planning 7 Disorder by Design: Legal Confusion and Bureaucratic Chaos in Colonial Planning Conclusion: Reflections on Planning, Colonial Power, and Continuities in the Present Notes Bibliography Index
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