Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues
Biographic Data
| ID | 170416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristina Udelsmann |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodrigues |
| SIGNATURE | RODRIGUES C U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nordic Africa Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1997-4190 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Where is the State Missing? Addressing Urban Climate Change at the Margins in Luanda and Maputo
Hesitant migration to emergent cities: Angola’s intentional urbanism of the ‘centralidades’
This article discusses migration to rural areas in Africa and its relation to the emergence and development of new towns and urbanism. New conditions of mobility and the establishment and development of newly urban and proto-urban areas call for a reassessment of mobility and settlement dynamics. Changing contexts of urban-rural relations with important societal implications, new transformations and reconfigurations of urban forms call for analys…
Mineralized Urbanization in Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Becoming Urban through Mining Extraction
This article focuses on the urbanizing impact of the post-millennial mineral boom at artisanal and small-scale (ASM) or large-scale (LSM) mining sites in three mineral-rich countries, involving gold in Ghana, diamonds in Angola, and both minerals in Tanzania. The focus is on comparing the agency of miners and other residents migrating to, settling in, and making the mining site habitable. Their mobility and settlement patterns reveal an urbanizat…
Precarity in Angolan diamond mining towns, 1920-2014: Tracing Agency of the State, Mining Companies and Urban Households
After nearly 30 years of civil war, Angola gained peace in 2002. The country's diamond and oil wealth affords the national government the means to pursue economic reconstruction and urban development. However, in the diamond-producing region of Lunda Sul, where intense fighting between MPLA and UNITA forces was waged, the legacy of war lingers on in the form of livelihood uncertainty and uneven access to the benefits of the state's urban developm…
Private condominiums in Luanda: More Than Just the Safety of Walls, a New Way of Living
Since its independence in 1975, Angola’s capital Luanda has been going through deep processes of demographic, economic, social and physical transformations. In this article, apart from introducing the case study of private condominiums in the general discussion on urban studies in the Global South, we focus on the dynamics of transformations regarding housing for the mid/upper strata, providing the background for the emergence and recent expansio…
Configuring the living environment in mining areas in Angola: Contestations between mining companies, workers, local communities and the state
Urban Modernity versus the Blood Diamond Legacy: Angola's Urban Mining Settlements in the Aftermath of War
For most of the latter half of the 20th century, war carved the contours of settlement and mining activity in Angola. The aim of this article is twofold: first, to contrast migrant and urban livelihoods during the war, distinguishing between artisanal guerrilla diamond-digging settlements and the refuge ‘government cities’, and, secondly, to compare recent patterns of migration, livelihoods, mineral production and aspirations among urban resident…
The Kwanhama partitioned by the border and the Angolan perspective of cross-border identity
The Kwanhama, whose ancient kingdom occupies a vast area in Angola and in Namibia, are one of the African cases of people partitioned by the establishment of colonial borders. This division, along with the profound transformations of the last decades in the region – war, displacement and conditioned circulation – shaped the way a common identity has acquired different features in both countries. In the (under-researched) Angolan side, cross-borde…
Changes to Urban Society in Angola: From Limited to Multi-Criteria Stratification
This article examines the transformations to urban social stratification in Angola during the last decades. The analysis is centered on the indicators of social difference throughout these years: the racial criteria of the colonial times; the political precedence in the first years after independence; and the multi-criteria of the postwar period. Based on research conducted before and after the end of the civil war in 2002, the article explores t…
Between the City Lights and the Shade of Exclusion: Post-War Accelerated Urban Transformation of Luanda, Angola
Nationalisms in Lusophone Africa
Since its publication in 2012, this book, edited by Mozambique specialist Eric Morier-Genoud, has repeatedly been reviewed in specialised Africanist journals, and there is a reason for this. While
Cooperação internacional e construção de um modelo original de polícia em Angola
A formação de oficiais de polícia angolanos, no âmbito dos diversos programas de cooperação em curso nesta área, concorre para a construção de um modelo de polícia original angolano. O final da guerra, associado ao desenvolvimento de estruturas de formação no país, bem como à elaboração de políticas públicas favoráveis ao desenvolvimento da polícia nacional, conduzem à consolidação de um modelo híbrido, fruto das múltiplas influências. Este model…
Angola's planned and unplanned urban growth: Diamond mining towns in the Lunda Provinces
Mining towns in Angola have followed a different growth trajectory from urban agglomerations elsewhere on the continent. Colonial mining cities were treated as regional strategic locations mainly under the direction of mining companies, with an orientation towards natural and human resources management and planned urbanisation. As Angola became engulfed in civil war after independence in 1975, urban planning and control fell into disarray, which …
Youth in Angola: Keeping the pace towards modernity
Today's Angolan youth's experiences of life are shaped both by conlict and new hopes. This applies to those who were born and raised in rural areas -the most afected by waras well as to urban youth, with more access to modernity but whose future is equally under permanent threat. War and uncertainty afect the way young people face the future, limiting their possibilities takeof making decisions about their lives. Peace has brought about new oppor…
Angola's southern border: Entrepreneurship opportunities and the state in Cunene
Santa Clara, on Angola's southern border with Namibia, is now a very dynamic urban hub, both economically and socially. It stands out in the remote province of Cunene, recording greater growth in the last five years than the provincial capital, Ondjiva. Its recent transformation into a thriving trading centre was mostly due to massive migration and an intensification of trade between Angola and Namibia at the beginning of this century, although t…
Angolan cities: Urban (re)segregation?
The general factors identified in the analysis of the cities of the south are the rapid population growth, the prevalence of poverty and weak socio-economic development. New social enclaves are created in cities like Ondjiva, Lubango, Luanda, Lobito and Benguela. The musseques are always regarded as one of the most serious problems which have accompanied the cities emergence and growth. There were urbanised centres, where services and the adminis…
From Family Solidarity to Social Classes: Urban Stratification in Angola (Luanda and Ondjiva)
The analysis of recent social transformations in two Angolan cities – Luanda and Ondjiva – highlights the maintenance and strengthening of groups and social networks based on family ties on the one hand and, on the other, the construction of new solidarities and identities derived from a traditional framework and recreated in the urban context in recent decades. Family solidarity and reciprocity in the post-independence, post-war context in Luand…
Survival and Social Reproduction Strategies in Angolan Cities
To survive and ensure social reproduction, families in urban Angola have developed strategies to meet the demands of daily life. The fundamental principles of these strategies are to concentrate and share resources among family members and their solidarity networks and, simultaneously, to disperse the sources and methods of generating and/or collecting these resources. Urban Angolans have proven that their efforts produce results beyond simple su…
From Family Solidarity to Social Classes: Urban Stratification in Angola (Luanda and Ondjiva)
The analysis of recent social transformations in two Angolan cities – Luanda and Ondjiva – highlights the maintenance and strengthening of groups and social networks based on family ties on the one hand and, on the other, the construction of new solidarities and identities derived from a traditional framework and recreated in the urban context in recent decades. Family solidarity and reciprocity in the post-independence, post-war context in Luand…
Private condominiums in Luanda: More Than Just the Safety of Walls, a New Way of Living
Since its independence in 1975, Angola’s capital Luanda has been going through deep processes of demographic, economic, social and physical transformations. In this article, apart from introducing the case study of private condominiums in the general discussion on urban studies in the Global South, we focus on the dynamics of transformations regarding housing for the mid/upper strata, providing the background for the emergence and recent expansio…
Configuring the living environment in mining areas in Angola: Contestations between mining companies, workers, local communities and the state
Urban Modernity versus the Blood Diamond Legacy: Angola's Urban Mining Settlements in the Aftermath of War
For most of the latter half of the 20th century, war carved the contours of settlement and mining activity in Angola. The aim of this article is twofold: first, to contrast migrant and urban livelihoods during the war, distinguishing between artisanal guerrilla diamond-digging settlements and the refuge ‘government cities’, and, secondly, to compare recent patterns of migration, livelihoods, mineral production and aspirations among urban resident…
Angola's planned and unplanned urban growth: Diamond mining towns in the Lunda Provinces
Mining towns in Angola have followed a different growth trajectory from urban agglomerations elsewhere on the continent. Colonial mining cities were treated as regional strategic locations mainly under the direction of mining companies, with an orientation towards natural and human resources management and planned urbanisation. As Angola became engulfed in civil war after independence in 1975, urban planning and control fell into disarray, which …
Youth in Angola: Keeping the pace towards modernity
Today's Angolan youth's experiences of life are shaped both by conlict and new hopes. This applies to those who were born and raised in rural areas -the most afected by waras well as to urban youth, with more access to modernity but whose future is equally under permanent threat. War and uncertainty afect the way young people face the future, limiting their possibilities takeof making decisions about their lives. Peace has brought about new oppor…
The Kwanhama partitioned by the border and the Angolan perspective of cross-border identity
The Kwanhama, whose ancient kingdom occupies a vast area in Angola and in Namibia, are one of the African cases of people partitioned by the establishment of colonial borders. This division, along with the profound transformations of the last decades in the region – war, displacement and conditioned circulation – shaped the way a common identity has acquired different features in both countries. In the (under-researched) Angolan side, cross-borde…
Changes to Urban Society in Angola: From Limited to Multi-Criteria Stratification
This article examines the transformations to urban social stratification in Angola during the last decades. The analysis is centered on the indicators of social difference throughout these years: the racial criteria of the colonial times; the political precedence in the first years after independence; and the multi-criteria of the postwar period. Based on research conducted before and after the end of the civil war in 2002, the article explores t…
Angola's southern border: Entrepreneurship opportunities and the state in Cunene
Santa Clara, on Angola's southern border with Namibia, is now a very dynamic urban hub, both economically and socially. It stands out in the remote province of Cunene, recording greater growth in the last five years than the provincial capital, Ondjiva. Its recent transformation into a thriving trading centre was mostly due to massive migration and an intensification of trade between Angola and Namibia at the beginning of this century, although t…
Mineralized Urbanization in Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Becoming Urban through Mining Extraction
This article focuses on the urbanizing impact of the post-millennial mineral boom at artisanal and small-scale (ASM) or large-scale (LSM) mining sites in three mineral-rich countries, involving gold in Ghana, diamonds in Angola, and both minerals in Tanzania. The focus is on comparing the agency of miners and other residents migrating to, settling in, and making the mining site habitable. Their mobility and settlement patterns reveal an urbanizat…
Precarity in Angolan diamond mining towns, 1920-2014: Tracing Agency of the State, Mining Companies and Urban Households
After nearly 30 years of civil war, Angola gained peace in 2002. The country's diamond and oil wealth affords the national government the means to pursue economic reconstruction and urban development. However, in the diamond-producing region of Lunda Sul, where intense fighting between MPLA and UNITA forces was waged, the legacy of war lingers on in the form of livelihood uncertainty and uneven access to the benefits of the state's urban developm…
From Family Solidarity to Social Classes: Urban Stratification in Angola (Luanda and Ondjiva)
The analysis of recent social transformations in two Angolan cities – Luanda and Ondjiva – highlights the maintenance and strengthening of groups and social networks based on family ties on the one hand and, on the other, the construction of new solidarities and identities derived from a traditional framework and recreated in the urban context in recent decades. Family solidarity and reciprocity in the post-independence, post-war context in Luand…
Survival and Social Reproduction Strategies in Angolan Cities
To survive and ensure social reproduction, families in urban Angola have developed strategies to meet the demands of daily life. The fundamental principles of these strategies are to concentrate and share resources among family members and their solidarity networks and, simultaneously, to disperse the sources and methods of generating and/or collecting these resources. Urban Angolans have proven that their efforts produce results beyond simple su…
Angolan cities: Urban (re)segregation?
The general factors identified in the analysis of the cities of the south are the rapid population growth, the prevalence of poverty and weak socio-economic development. New social enclaves are created in cities like Ondjiva, Lubango, Luanda, Lobito and Benguela. The musseques are always regarded as one of the most serious problems which have accompanied the cities emergence and growth. There were urbanised centres, where services and the adminis…
Youth in Angola: Keeping the pace towards modernity
Today's Angolan youth's experiences of life are shaped both by conlict and new hopes. This applies to those who were born and raised in rural areas -the most afected by waras well as to urban youth, with more access to modernity but whose future is equally under permanent threat. War and uncertainty afect the way young people face the future, limiting their possibilities takeof making decisions about their lives. Peace has brought about new oppor…
Angola's southern border: Entrepreneurship opportunities and the state in Cunene
Santa Clara, on Angola's southern border with Namibia, is now a very dynamic urban hub, both economically and socially. It stands out in the remote province of Cunene, recording greater growth in the last five years than the provincial capital, Ondjiva. Its recent transformation into a thriving trading centre was mostly due to massive migration and an intensification of trade between Angola and Namibia at the beginning of this century, although t…
Angola's planned and unplanned urban growth: Diamond mining towns in the Lunda Provinces
Mining towns in Angola have followed a different growth trajectory from urban agglomerations elsewhere on the continent. Colonial mining cities were treated as regional strategic locations mainly under the direction of mining companies, with an orientation towards natural and human resources management and planned urbanisation. As Angola became engulfed in civil war after independence in 1975, urban planning and control fell into disarray, which …
Cooperação internacional e construção de um modelo original de polícia em Angola
A formação de oficiais de polícia angolanos, no âmbito dos diversos programas de cooperação em curso nesta área, concorre para a construção de um modelo de polícia original angolano. O final da guerra, associado ao desenvolvimento de estruturas de formação no país, bem como à elaboração de políticas públicas favoráveis ao desenvolvimento da polícia nacional, conduzem à consolidação de um modelo híbrido, fruto das múltiplas influências. Este model…
Between the City Lights and the Shade of Exclusion: Post-War Accelerated Urban Transformation of Luanda, Angola
Nationalisms in Lusophone Africa
Since its publication in 2012, this book, edited by Mozambique specialist Eric Morier-Genoud, has repeatedly been reviewed in specialised Africanist journals, and there is a reason for this. While
Configuring the living environment in mining areas in Angola: Contestations between mining companies, workers, local communities and the state
Urban Modernity versus the Blood Diamond Legacy: Angola's Urban Mining Settlements in the Aftermath of War
For most of the latter half of the 20th century, war carved the contours of settlement and mining activity in Angola. The aim of this article is twofold: first, to contrast migrant and urban livelihoods during the war, distinguishing between artisanal guerrilla diamond-digging settlements and the refuge ‘government cities’, and, secondly, to compare recent patterns of migration, livelihoods, mineral production and aspirations among urban resident…
The Kwanhama partitioned by the border and the Angolan perspective of cross-border identity
The Kwanhama, whose ancient kingdom occupies a vast area in Angola and in Namibia, are one of the African cases of people partitioned by the establishment of colonial borders. This division, along with the profound transformations of the last decades in the region – war, displacement and conditioned circulation – shaped the way a common identity has acquired different features in both countries. In the (under-researched) Angolan side, cross-borde…
Changes to Urban Society in Angola: From Limited to Multi-Criteria Stratification
This article examines the transformations to urban social stratification in Angola during the last decades. The analysis is centered on the indicators of social difference throughout these years: the racial criteria of the colonial times; the political precedence in the first years after independence; and the multi-criteria of the postwar period. Based on research conducted before and after the end of the civil war in 2002, the article explores t…
Precarity in Angolan diamond mining towns, 1920-2014: Tracing Agency of the State, Mining Companies and Urban Households
After nearly 30 years of civil war, Angola gained peace in 2002. The country's diamond and oil wealth affords the national government the means to pursue economic reconstruction and urban development. However, in the diamond-producing region of Lunda Sul, where intense fighting between MPLA and UNITA forces was waged, the legacy of war lingers on in the form of livelihood uncertainty and uneven access to the benefits of the state's urban developm…
Private condominiums in Luanda: More Than Just the Safety of Walls, a New Way of Living
Since its independence in 1975, Angola’s capital Luanda has been going through deep processes of demographic, economic, social and physical transformations. In this article, apart from introducing the case study of private condominiums in the general discussion on urban studies in the Global South, we focus on the dynamics of transformations regarding housing for the mid/upper strata, providing the background for the emergence and recent expansio…
Where is the State Missing? Addressing Urban Climate Change at the Margins in Luanda and Maputo
Hesitant migration to emergent cities: Angola’s intentional urbanism of the ‘centralidades’
This article discusses migration to rural areas in Africa and its relation to the emergence and development of new towns and urbanism. New conditions of mobility and the establishment and development of newly urban and proto-urban areas call for a reassessment of mobility and settlement dynamics. Changing contexts of urban-rural relations with important societal implications, new transformations and reconfigurations of urban forms call for analys…
Mineralized Urbanization in Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Becoming Urban through Mining Extraction
This article focuses on the urbanizing impact of the post-millennial mineral boom at artisanal and small-scale (ASM) or large-scale (LSM) mining sites in three mineral-rich countries, involving gold in Ghana, diamonds in Angola, and both minerals in Tanzania. The focus is on comparing the agency of miners and other residents migrating to, settling in, and making the mining site habitable. Their mobility and settlement patterns reveal an urbanizat…
Geography (14 works) · Economic growth (12 works) · Economics (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (11 works) · Economic geography (8 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Economy (6 works) · African history and culture studies (5 works)