African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime and Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam.0821416359 African underclass; urbanisation, crime & colonial order in Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam Largest city (pop., 1995 est.: 1,747,000), capital, and major port of Tanzania. Founded in 1862 by the sultan of Zanzibar, it came under the German East Africa Co. in 1887. . Burton, Andrew. Ohio University Press Ohio University Press is part of Ohio University. It publishes under its own name and the imprint Swallow Press. External links
2005 301 pages $49.95 Hardcover Eastern African studies African studies (also known as Africana studies) is the study of Africa, and can encompass such fields as social and economic development, politics, history, culture, sociology, anthropology or linguistics. A specialist in African studies is referred to as an Africanist. HT384 Under colonial British rule, Dar es Salaam grew from a small Tankanyikan (now Tazanian) town to a city of almost 200,000. Burton (assistant director, British Institute in Eastern Africa) explores the connection between this rapid urbanization and crime, specifically in the context of efforts by British colonial managers to define the urban colonial order. After providing the colonial urban policy context and discussing the disconnection dis·con·nect v. dis·con·nect·ed, dis·con·nect·ing, dis·con·nects v.tr. 1. To sever or interrupt the connection of or between: disconnected the hose. 2. between illegality and illegitimacy illegitimacy: see bastard. Illegitimacy bend sinister supposed stigma of illegitimate birth. [Heraldry: Misc.] Clinker, Humphry servant of Bramble family turns out to be illegitimate son of Mr. Bramble. [Br. Lit. in a society where laws are imposed by an alien minority, he provides portraits of Dar es Salaam's "professional" criminals and of petty and opportunistic crime, which comprised the majority of criminal activity. He then considers the city's informal economy and colonial legislation outlawing such activity, laws designed to restrict African mobility, and how colonial efforts to control the character of the African urban population helped define and create an underclass seen and feared as "criminal" by colonial elites. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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