The suburban frontier: middle-class construction in Dar es Salaam

Mercer, Claire ORCID: 0000-0003-0991-3693 (2024) The suburban frontier: middle-class construction in Dar es Salaam. University of California Press, Oakland, CA. ISBN 9780520402386

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Abstract

African cities are under construction. Beyond the urban redevelopment schemes and large-scale infrastructure projects reconfiguring central city skylines, the majority of urban residents are putting their resources into finding land and building homes on the city edges. As the first book-length analysis of Africa’s suburban middle-class, The Suburban Frontier examines how self-built housing on the urban periphery has become central to middle-class formation and urban transformation in contemporary Tanzania. Drawing on original qualitative and ethnographic field research in the city of Dar es Salaam, Claire Mercer writes a detailed exposition of how the "suburban frontier" has become the place where Africa’s middle classes are shaped. This book offers a new lens on the African middle classes, making significant contributions to the study of urban social change in Africa and urbanization in the Global South.

Item Type:	Book
Official URL:	https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520402386/the-sub...
Additional Information:	© 2024 by Claire Mercer
Divisions:	Geography & Environment
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Date Deposited:	12 Apr 2024 16:09
Last Modified:	18 Apr 2025 20:51
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122631

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