African Luxury : Aesthetics and Politics /: Aesthetics and Politics. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mehita Iqani, Simidele Dosekun.
• Editors: Iqani Mehita; Dosekun Simidele
• Contents: Introduction: The Politics and Aesthetics of Luxury in Africa by Simidele Dosekun and Mehita Iqani; ; ; ; Section 1: Africa Risen; ; ; ; Chapter 1: The Last Luxury Frontier? How Global Consulting Firms Discursively Construct the African Market by Mehita Iqani; ; ; ; Chapter 2: African Utopianism: The Invention of Africa in Diesel’s The Daily African – A Retrogressive Reading by Hlonipha Mokoena; ; ; ; Chapter 3: For Love or Money? Romance, Luxury and Class Distinction on Mzansi Magic’s Date My Family by Alexia Smit; ; ; ; Section 2: Re/Crafting African Style; ; ; ; Chapter 4: From African Print to Global Luxury: Dutch Wax Cloth Rebranding and the Politics of High-Value by M. Amah Edoh; ; ; ; Chapter 5: The Playful and Privileged Africanicity of Luxury: @AlaraLagos by Simidele Dosekun; ; ; ; Chapter 6: Fields of Marigold: Makers and Wearers of African Luxury Beaded Necklaces by Pamila Gupta; ; ; ; Section 3: Ambiguous Luxury Spaces; ; ; ; Chapter 7: Luminance and the Moralization of Black Women’s Luxury Consumption in South Africa by Ndapwa Alweendo and Simidele Dosekun; ; ; ; Chapter 8: The Politics of Repair: Talatona and Luxury Urbanism in Luanda, Angola by Claudia Gastrow; ; ; ; Chapter 9: Welcome to the Jungle: Tropical Modernism, Decadence, Gardening in Africa by Jonathan Cane
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Intellect Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789380231; 1789380235
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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