{"product_id":"children-of-the-soil-9781478025290","title":"Children of the Soil","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Soil\u003c\/i\u003e, Tasha Rijke-Epstein offers an urban history of the port city of Mahajanga, Madagascar, before, during, and after colonization. Drawing on archival and ethnographic evidence, she weaves together the lives and afterlives of built spaces to show how city residents negotiated imperial encroachment, colonial rule, and global racial capitalism over two centuries. From Mahajanga’s hilltop palace to the alluvial depths of its cesspools, the city’s spaces were domains for ideological debates between rulers and subjects, French colonizers and indigenous Malagasy peoples, and Comorian migrants and Indian traders. In these spaces, Mahajanga’s residents expressed competing moral theories about power over people and the land. The built world was also where varying populations reckoned with human, ancestral, and ecological pasts and laid present and future claims to urban belonging. Migrants from nearby Comoros harnessed built forms as anticipatory de\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":49409017708887,"sku":"9781478025290","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478025290.jpg?v=1730505112","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/children-of-the-soil-9781478025290","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}