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Ritsema, Mieka Simone.

Gaborone is growing like a baby: Social and spatial transformations in Botswana's capital city.

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Title/Author:	Gaborone is growing like a baby: Social and spatial transformations in Botswana's capital city.
Author:	Ritsema, Mieka Simone.
Description:	296 p.
Notes:	Directors: Eric Worby; David Graeber; Vron Ware.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4078.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-11A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3194704
ISBN:	9780542394737

Gaborone is growing like a baby: Social and spatial transformations in Botswana's capital city.
Ritsema, Mieka Simone.

Gaborone is growing like a baby: Social and spatial transformations in Botswana's capital city. - 296 p.

Directors: Eric Worby; David Graeber; Vron Ware.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2005.

A fourth route through the city examines state-making practices, represented through urban plans, that are juxtaposed with contemporary narratives of the city's transformations to make the city legible. These representations demonstrate convergences and divergences in imagining the city.

ISBN: 9780542394737Subjects--Topical Terms:

212460
Anthropology, Cultural.

Gaborone is growing like a baby: Social and spatial transformations in Botswana's capital city.
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520 # $a A fourth route through the city examines state-making practices, represented through urban plans, that are juxtaposed with contemporary narratives of the city's transformations to make the city legible. These representations demonstrate convergences and divergences in imagining the city.
520 # $a Gaborone has been under continuous construction since its creation in the 1960s as Botswana's capital. The British previously administered the Bechuanaland Protectorate from their headquarters in Mafikeng, South Africa. This unique city is a place where a prosperous post-colonial state has created opportunities for formal employment and education that have been routes for upward socio-economic mobility. Gaborone's transformations have been manifest in the materiality of the city's construction, in narratives of social transformations, and in the contingencies of lived experiences.
520 # $a Gaborone is a city that has been marginalized in the academic imagination; nonetheless, it has much to offer for understandings of processes of social change and urbanism, of African and global cities.
520 # $a In the final chapter, the dissertation explores perceptions of prosperity---that "Gaborone is growing like a baby"---and the concurrent tragedy of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The chapter shows how expectations of modernity in Gaborone are strikingly at variance with a linear teleologies of success.
520 # $a The capital is then analyzed in socio-historical and theoretical contexts, whereby "rural/urban" and "town/village" dichotomies are examined through relational processes and configurations predicated on practices of movement, rather than settlement. While both pre-colonial and colonial settlements in Botswana were embedded in regional political economies, Gaborone offers possibilities for national and global imaginaries of citizenship.
520 # $a The dissertation enters this city from several routes that offer complementary, yet selective, perspectives. Gaborone is first encountered through the memories, experiences, and circulations of three women, family members of differing generations, whose home has been encompassed by the city in preceding decades. An examination of their composite case studies serves to question the very meaning of "urban."
520 # $a Through an ethno-historical approach, the dissertation then demonstrates how British and Batswana visions for a capital converged in the selection Gaborone. In the process, I show how Gaborone's colonial history was erased in order to create a modernist capital from "the bush."
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