Architecture and development : Israeli construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the settler colonial imagination, 1958-1973 / Ayala Levin

Englisch

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2022

xi, 308 Seiten,16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln : Illustrationen

Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 269-293 und Index

Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe- Levin, Ayala *1979-*: Architecture and Development. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2022. - 1 online resource (337 pages)

Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe- Levin, Ayala: Architecture and development. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2022. - 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 308 pages)

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Settler Colonial Expertise in the Theater of Development -- Fast-Tracking the Nation-State: The Design and Construction of the Sierra Leone Parliament -- Rootedness and Open-Ended Planning: The Sierra Leone National Urbanization Plan -- Planning a Postcolonial University Campus: The University of Ife, Nigeria -- Designing the University of Ife: Climate, Regeneration, and Ornament -- Israeli Aid, Private Entrepreneurship, and Architectural Education in Addis Ababa -- Ghosts of Modernity.

*Subsaharisches Afrika / Israel / Architektur / Stadtplanung / Geschichte 1958-1973

*Architecture -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History ; Jewish architects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- 20th century ; Technical assistance, Israeli -- Africa, Sub-Saharan ; Urbanization -- Africa, Sub-Saharan ; Architecture -- Political aspects -- Israel ; Israel -- Foreign relations -- Africa, Sub-Saharan ; Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Foreign relations -- Israel

*HISTORY / Africa / General ; HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: NA1591.65

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 720.95694

"In Architecture and Development Ayala Levin charts the settler colonial imagination and practices that undergirded Israeli architectural development aid in Africa. Focusing on the "golden age" of Israel's diplomatic relations in and throughout the continent from 1958 to 1973, Levin finds that Israel positioned itself as a developing-nation alternative in the competition over aid and influence between global North and global South. In analyses of the design and construction of prestigious governmental projects in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia, she details how architects, planners, and a trade union-owned construction company staged Israel as a new center of nonaligned expertise. These set of actors and professionals paradoxically capitalized on their settler colonial experience in Palestine, refashioning it as an alternative to Western colonial expertise. Levin traces how Israel became involved in the modernization of governance, education, and agriculture in Africa, as well as how African leaders chose to work with Israel to forge new South-South connections. In so doing, she offers new ways of understanding the role of architecture as a vehicle of postcolonial development and in the mobilization of development resources"--

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