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Spatial literacy = contemporary Asante women's place-making /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Spatial literacy/ Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare.
Reminder of title:	contemporary Asante women's place-making /
Author:	Amoo-Adare, Epifania Akosua,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2013.,
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 173 p.) :ill. :
Notes:	Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2006.
Subject:	Spatial behavior - Ghana -
Subject:	Accra (Ghana) - Social conditions. -
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9781137281074 (electronic bk.)

Spatial literacy = contemporary Asante women's place-making /
Amoo-Adare, Epifania Akosua,1967-

Spatial literacycontemporary Asante women's place-making /[electronic resource] :Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2013. - 1 online resource (xviii, 173 p.) :ill. - Gender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora. - Gender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora..

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Critical spatial literacy is urgent political praxis -- Chapter 2. Feminist positionality: renegade architecture in a certain ambiguity -- Chapter 3. Politics of (post)modern space: Asante women's place in a capitalist spatiality -- Vignette 1. Auntie Pauline Sampene (mobility) -- Chapter 4. Akwantu: travel and the making of roads -- Vignette 2. Auntie Evelina Amoakohene (education) -- Chapter 5. Anibuei: civilization and the opening of eyes -- Vignette 3. Akosua Serwa Opoku-Bonsu (economics) -- Chapter 6. Sikas'm: money matters and the love of gold -- Vignette 4. Nana Sarpoma (Asante identity) -- Chapter 7. Process not state, becoming not being -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: towards a pedagogy of critical spatial literacy.

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." Additionally, the book provides insight into Asante women's perspectives on their urban living conditions, their sense of place in Ghana's capital and the world at large, and how they make sense of these contemporary spaces, which are the result of transnational economic and cultural flows. In other words, the author discusses and recounts experiences surrounding her development and execution of a renegade African-feminist architecture project that reveals Asante women's critical literacy of contemporary space in terms of what they describe as its significant socio-spatial effects of akwantu, anibuei, ne sikasem: that is, travel, 'civilization,' and economics.

ISBN: 9781137281074 (electronic bk.)

Source: 630542Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

663981
Spatial behavior
--GhanaSubjects--Geographical Terms:

940599
Accra (Ghana)
--Social conditions.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BF469 / .A46 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 304.2308209667

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