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Spatial Literacy: Contemporary Asante Women's Place-making (Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora)
Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare
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Description for Spatial Literacy: Contemporary Asante Women's Place-making (Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora)
Hardcover. This book makes the case for an urgent praxis of critical spatial literacy for African women. It provides a critical analysis of how Asante women negotiate and understand the politics of contemporary space in Accra and beyond and the effect it has on their lives, demonstrating how they critically 'read that world.' Series: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora. Num Pages: 173 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
This book makes the case for an urgent praxis of critical spatial literacy for African women. It provides a critical analysis of how Asante women negotiate and understand the politics of contemporary space in Accra and beyond and the effect it has on their lives, demonstrating how they critically 'read that world.'
This book makes the case for an urgent praxis of critical spatial literacy for African women. It provides a critical analysis of how Asante women negotiate and understand the politics of contemporary space in Accra and beyond and the effect it has on their lives, demonstrating how they critically 'read that world.'
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
Number of Pages
173
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137281067
SKU
V9781137281067
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99-15
About Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare
Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare is a research specialist at Reach Out to Asia (ROTA), a non-profit organization affiliated with the Qatar Foundation. She has a PhD in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a RIBA part II qualified architect, with over 26 years of experience working within the fields of education, international development, and social housing in ... Read more
Reviews for Spatial Literacy: Contemporary Asante Women's Place-making (Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora)
"What Amoo-Adare brings to the literature is an intensely critical approach that is self-refl ective. Her identity informs the work and gives it urgency . . . Yet she is aware of her role as both insider and outsider, given her identity as a woman architect and scholar with African roots, a Western education and extensive travel in her adult ... Read more