{"product_id":"children-of-the-soil-9781478020486","title":"Children of the Soil","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTasha Rijke-Epstein offers an urban history of the Indian Ocean port city of Mahajanga, Madagascar, showing how the built environment was central to how its residents negotiated imperial encroachment, colonial rule, and global racial capitalism over two centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A landmark exploration of the built environment as a medium of social life, a register of history making, and a historical source. Set in a Malagasy city of migrants and stretching from the eighteenth century to the present, Tasha Rijke-Epstein’s \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Soil\u003c\/i\u003e resets the agenda for writing about the politics of mobility and belonging.” -- David L. Schoenbrun, author of * The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 *\u003cbr\u003e“A lucid and engaging history of the materiality of placemaking and belonging. This book charts decisively new, exceptionally rich terrain for urban studies and ethnographically informed architectural history.” -- Laura Fair, author of * Reel Pleasures: Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in Twentieth-Century Urban Tanzania *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on Toponyms  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Material Histories  1\u003cbr\u003e I. Building Power\u003cbr\u003e 1. Casting the Land: Architectural Tactics and the Politics of Durability  27\u003cbr\u003e 2. Vibrant Matters: The \u003ci\u003eRova\u003c\/i\u003e and More-Than-Human Forces  54\u003cbr\u003e II. Anticipatory Landscapes\u003cbr\u003e 3. Storied Refusals: Labor and Laden Absences  87\u003cbr\u003e 4. Sedimentary Bonds: Treasured Mosques and Everyday Expertise  123\u003cbr\u003e III. Residual Lives and Afterlives\u003cbr\u003e 5. Garnered Presences: Constructing and Belonging in the \u003ci\u003eZanatany\u003c\/i\u003e City  161\u003cbr\u003e 6. Violent Remnants: Infrastructures of Possibility and Peril  195\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Unfinished Histories  225\u003cbr\u003e Notes  241\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  293\u003cbr\u003e Index  339","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409014104407,"sku":"9781478020486","price":77.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478020486.jpg?v=1730505094","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/children-of-the-soil-9781478020486","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}