Boundary Work: Becoming Middle Class in Suburban Dar es Salaam. (18th December 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Boundary Work: Becoming Middle Class in Suburban Dar es Salaam. (18th December 2018)
- Main Title:
- Boundary Work: Becoming Middle Class in Suburban Dar es Salaam
- Authors:
- Mercer, Claire
- Abstract:
- Abstract: Suburban space provides a useful window onto contemporary class practices in Africa, where it is difficult to identify social classes on the basis of income or occupation. In this article I argue that the middle classes and the suburbs are mutually constitutive in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam. Using interviews with residents and local government officials in the city's northern suburbs, I discuss the material and representational practices of middle‐class boundary work in relation to land and landscape. If the middle classes do not presently constitute a coherent political‐economic force, they are nevertheless transforming the city's former northern peri‐urban zones into desirable suburban residential neighbourhoods.
- Is Part Of:
- International journal of urban and regional research. Volume 44:Number 3(2020)
- Journal:
- International journal of urban and regional research
- Issue:
- Volume 44:Number 3(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 44, Issue 3 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 44
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0044-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 521
- Page End:
- 536
- Publication Date:
- 2018-12-18
- Subjects:
- suburbs -- middle class -- boundary work -- land -- landscape -- Dar es Salaam -- Tanzania
City planning -- Periodicals
Regional planning -- Periodicals
307.1205 - Journal URLs:
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1111/1468-2427.12733 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0309-1317
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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