Claudia Gastrow
Biographic Data
| ID | 120834 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudia Gastrow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Gastrow |
| SIGNATURE | GASTROW C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5148-1260 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Conjuring geographies: Creating ‘usable space’ in urban Africa
Over the past two decades, new high-end real estate developments have increasingly shaped Africa’s urbanscapes. Scholars have generally criticized such projects, arguing that they do little to serve the needs of the broader population. In accounting for the investment in high-end real estate, the existing literature has focused on the domestic incentives that shape their development, the desires of local elites and bureaucracies, and internationa…
Socialismes en Afrique
Ce volume est un état de la recherche internationale sur les socialismes africains. Y sont rassemblés des articles traitant de débats théoriques autour de ce thème et de ses sources intellectuelles mais aussi d'expériences très concrètes de socialisme, tant dans les villes que dans les campagnes : coopératives, comités de quartier, camps de rééducation... La situation de l'Afrique lusophone, parent pauvre des études africaines en France, et dont …
Response to Marzia Milazzo's review of Conspicuous Consumption in Africa
We are writing as contributors to, and editors of, the volume Conspicuous Consumption in Africa (WUP, 2019), to express our deep concern at a review of this book which was published in Ethnic and R
Vaccine Nationalism and the Future of Research in Africa
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(Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts, and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire, Maria Do Carmo Piçarra and Teresa Castro (eds) (2017)
Review of: ( Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts, and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire , Maria Do Carmo Piçarra and Teresa Castro (eds) (2017) Oxford: Peter Lang, 287 pp., ISBN: 978-1-78707-318-0, p/bk, $33
Urban States: The Presidency and Planning in Luanda, Angola
While state institutions are involved in planning and governance in African cities, their relevance in shaping urban life is sometimes questioned given what residents often experience as the extreme incapacity of state agencies. In response, some scholars have sought to rethink the nature of institutions, while others have shifted their attention to the role of the everyday in the making of cities. This article builds on literature that seeks to …
DIY Verticality: The Politics of Materiality in Luanda
A growing body of work has highlighted the centrality of verticality to the making of contemporary urbanism, pushing scholars to begin conceptualising inequality, politics, and planning as multi-scalar in nature. This paper builds off these interventions to argue that verticality should be understood as a fragile and unstable achievement, a fragility heightened when the oft-taken for granted workings of the state and private sector, which enable …
Housing middle-classness: Formality and the making of distinction in Luanda
As one of the primary personal sites of financial investment, expression and public performance, housing has stood at the centre of contemporary studies of class in Africa. This article adds to the existing literature on housing and class by exploring residents' desires for formal housing in post-conflict Luanda, Angola. Luanda's residents increasingly believed that access to formal housing, not necessarily always legally but rather aesthetically…
Angola: Nationalist Narratives and Alternative Histories
Aesthetic Dissent: Urban Redevelopment and Political Belonging in Luanda, Angola
Over the previous decade, African cities experienced a wave of frenzied construction driven by imaginations of world-city status. While these projects provoked new discussions about African urbanism, the literature on them has focused more on the paperwork of planning than actual urban experiences. This article addresses this lacuna by investigating residents' reactions to the post-conflict building boom in Luanda, Angola. I show that Luandans' h…
Cement citizens: Housing, demolition and political belonging in Luanda, Angola
Slum demolition in the name of urban renewal is a common practice in contemporary African cities. Many organisations have tracked the rights violations that demolitions entail. What has been overlooked, however, is the political significance of slums, which this paper argues produce their own imaginations of ‘good urbanism’ becoming critical sites for the imagining of urban political belonging. Exploring the case of urban redevelopment and slum d…
Political identity and conflict in central Angola, 1975–2002
2016). Political identity and conflict in central Angola, 1975–2002. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 170-172
Cubans in Angola: South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976–1991
Vamos construir: Revendications foncières et géographie du pouvoir à Luanda, Angola
Cet article se penche sur les questions de propriété, de citoyenneté et d'autorité de l'État à Luanda. Il étudie la façon dont les victimes de démolitions urbaines, en essayant d'obtenir compensation pour la perte de leur propriété, remettent en cause des formes établies de relations entre État et citoyens. L'auteure avance que la croyance dans le pouvoir du Mouvement populaire de libération de l'Angola (MPLA) a conduit de nombreuses victimes de …
Struggling for Freedom: The Divestment Movement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1977–1987
The author explores the divestment activism at UIUC between the years 1977 and 1987, and in the process highlights the central arguments and themes that arose as the movement developed. In particular the author stresses issues that became salient during the movement's existence: the proper role of a university in society, the moral grounds for divestment, issues of democracy within the university, and racism on campus. In highlighting the intense…
Housing middle-classness: Formality and the making of distinction in Luanda
As one of the primary personal sites of financial investment, expression and public performance, housing has stood at the centre of contemporary studies of class in Africa. This article adds to the existing literature on housing and class by exploring residents' desires for formal housing in post-conflict Luanda, Angola. Luanda's residents increasingly believed that access to formal housing, not necessarily always legally but rather aesthetically…
Cement citizens: Housing, demolition and political belonging in Luanda, Angola
Slum demolition in the name of urban renewal is a common practice in contemporary African cities. Many organisations have tracked the rights violations that demolitions entail. What has been overlooked, however, is the political significance of slums, which this paper argues produce their own imaginations of ‘good urbanism’ becoming critical sites for the imagining of urban political belonging. Exploring the case of urban redevelopment and slum d…
Aesthetic Dissent: Urban Redevelopment and Political Belonging in Luanda, Angola
Over the previous decade, African cities experienced a wave of frenzied construction driven by imaginations of world-city status. While these projects provoked new discussions about African urbanism, the literature on them has focused more on the paperwork of planning than actual urban experiences. This article addresses this lacuna by investigating residents' reactions to the post-conflict building boom in Luanda, Angola. I show that Luandans' h…
DIY Verticality: The Politics of Materiality in Luanda
A growing body of work has highlighted the centrality of verticality to the making of contemporary urbanism, pushing scholars to begin conceptualising inequality, politics, and planning as multi-scalar in nature. This paper builds off these interventions to argue that verticality should be understood as a fragile and unstable achievement, a fragility heightened when the oft-taken for granted workings of the state and private sector, which enable …
Urban States: The Presidency and Planning in Luanda, Angola
While state institutions are involved in planning and governance in African cities, their relevance in shaping urban life is sometimes questioned given what residents often experience as the extreme incapacity of state agencies. In response, some scholars have sought to rethink the nature of institutions, while others have shifted their attention to the role of the everyday in the making of cities. This article builds on literature that seeks to …
Political identity and conflict in central Angola, 1975–2002
2016). Political identity and conflict in central Angola, 1975–2002. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 170-172
Vamos construir: Revendications foncières et géographie du pouvoir à Luanda, Angola
Cet article se penche sur les questions de propriété, de citoyenneté et d'autorité de l'État à Luanda. Il étudie la façon dont les victimes de démolitions urbaines, en essayant d'obtenir compensation pour la perte de leur propriété, remettent en cause des formes établies de relations entre État et citoyens. L'auteure avance que la croyance dans le pouvoir du Mouvement populaire de libération de l'Angola (MPLA) a conduit de nombreuses victimes de …
Response to Marzia Milazzo's review of Conspicuous Consumption in Africa
We are writing as contributors to, and editors of, the volume Conspicuous Consumption in Africa (WUP, 2019), to express our deep concern at a review of this book which was published in Ethnic and R
Angola: Nationalist Narratives and Alternative Histories
Struggling for Freedom: The Divestment Movement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1977–1987
The author explores the divestment activism at UIUC between the years 1977 and 1987, and in the process highlights the central arguments and themes that arose as the movement developed. In particular the author stresses issues that became salient during the movement's existence: the proper role of a university in society, the moral grounds for divestment, issues of democracy within the university, and racism on campus. In highlighting the intense…
Vamos construir: Revendications foncières et géographie du pouvoir à Luanda, Angola
Cet article se penche sur les questions de propriété, de citoyenneté et d'autorité de l'État à Luanda. Il étudie la façon dont les victimes de démolitions urbaines, en essayant d'obtenir compensation pour la perte de leur propriété, remettent en cause des formes établies de relations entre État et citoyens. L'auteure avance que la croyance dans le pouvoir du Mouvement populaire de libération de l'Angola (MPLA) a conduit de nombreuses victimes de …
Cubans in Angola: South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976–1991
Political identity and conflict in central Angola, 1975–2002
2016). Political identity and conflict in central Angola, 1975–2002. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 170-172
Aesthetic Dissent: Urban Redevelopment and Political Belonging in Luanda, Angola
Over the previous decade, African cities experienced a wave of frenzied construction driven by imaginations of world-city status. While these projects provoked new discussions about African urbanism, the literature on them has focused more on the paperwork of planning than actual urban experiences. This article addresses this lacuna by investigating residents' reactions to the post-conflict building boom in Luanda, Angola. I show that Luandans' h…
Cement citizens: Housing, demolition and political belonging in Luanda, Angola
Slum demolition in the name of urban renewal is a common practice in contemporary African cities. Many organisations have tracked the rights violations that demolitions entail. What has been overlooked, however, is the political significance of slums, which this paper argues produce their own imaginations of ‘good urbanism’ becoming critical sites for the imagining of urban political belonging. Exploring the case of urban redevelopment and slum d…
Angola: Nationalist Narratives and Alternative Histories
(Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts, and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire, Maria Do Carmo Piçarra and Teresa Castro (eds) (2017)
Review of: ( Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts, and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire , Maria Do Carmo Piçarra and Teresa Castro (eds) (2017) Oxford: Peter Lang, 287 pp., ISBN: 978-1-78707-318-0, p/bk, $33
Urban States: The Presidency and Planning in Luanda, Angola
While state institutions are involved in planning and governance in African cities, their relevance in shaping urban life is sometimes questioned given what residents often experience as the extreme incapacity of state agencies. In response, some scholars have sought to rethink the nature of institutions, while others have shifted their attention to the role of the everyday in the making of cities. This article builds on literature that seeks to …
DIY Verticality: The Politics of Materiality in Luanda
A growing body of work has highlighted the centrality of verticality to the making of contemporary urbanism, pushing scholars to begin conceptualising inequality, politics, and planning as multi-scalar in nature. This paper builds off these interventions to argue that verticality should be understood as a fragile and unstable achievement, a fragility heightened when the oft-taken for granted workings of the state and private sector, which enable …
Housing middle-classness: Formality and the making of distinction in Luanda
As one of the primary personal sites of financial investment, expression and public performance, housing has stood at the centre of contemporary studies of class in Africa. This article adds to the existing literature on housing and class by exploring residents' desires for formal housing in post-conflict Luanda, Angola. Luanda's residents increasingly believed that access to formal housing, not necessarily always legally but rather aesthetically…
Socialismes en Afrique
Ce volume est un état de la recherche internationale sur les socialismes africains. Y sont rassemblés des articles traitant de débats théoriques autour de ce thème et de ses sources intellectuelles mais aussi d'expériences très concrètes de socialisme, tant dans les villes que dans les campagnes : coopératives, comités de quartier, camps de rééducation... La situation de l'Afrique lusophone, parent pauvre des études africaines en France, et dont …
Response to Marzia Milazzo's review of Conspicuous Consumption in Africa
We are writing as contributors to, and editors of, the volume Conspicuous Consumption in Africa (WUP, 2019), to express our deep concern at a review of this book which was published in Ethnic and R
Vaccine Nationalism and the Future of Research in Africa
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Conjuring geographies: Creating ‘usable space’ in urban Africa
Over the past two decades, new high-end real estate developments have increasingly shaped Africa’s urbanscapes. Scholars have generally criticized such projects, arguing that they do little to serve the needs of the broader population. In accounting for the investment in high-end real estate, the existing literature has focused on the domestic incentives that shape their development, the desires of local elites and bureaucracies, and internationa…
Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Political economy (5 works)