Spatial Literacy

This book makes the case for an urgent praxis of critical spatial literacy for African women. It provides a critical analysis of how Asante women negotiate and understand the politics of contemporary space in Accra and beyond and the effect it has on their lives, demonstrating how they critically 'read that world.'

THEORY and PRAXIS: The author's Critical Spatial Literacy offers a new analytic framework as well as a blueprint for action. GROUNDED ANALYSIS: AmmoAdare grounds her study in the everyday lived experience of actual Ghanaian women. BROADLY APPLICABLE: The book offers a highly creative way to explain the various issues that female migrants and immigrants face upon encountering urban life and cities.

Autorentext
Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare is a research specialist at Reach Out to Asia (ROTA), a non-profit organization affiliated with the Qatar Foundation. She has a PhD in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a RIBA part II qualified architect, with over 26 years of experience working within the fields of education, international development, and social housing in countries like Afghanistan, Georgia, Ghana, Qatar, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Klappentext
In this remarkable work of interdisciplinary scholarship, architect and scholar Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare makes the case for an urgently needed praxis of critical spatial literacy, particularly for women of African descent. Through a compelling analysis of fifteen Asante women's negotiation of the politics of space, she demonstrates how they critically read the postmodern world in order to make place within it. This contains within it the promise of a feminist, 'renegade' architectural project in which spatial literacy allows one to navigate the significant socio-spatial effects of akwantu, anibuei ne sikas?m: travel, 'civilization,' and economics.

Inhalt

Critical Spatial Literacy is Urgent Political Praxis
Feminist Positionality: Renegade Architecture in a Certain Ambiguity
Politics of (post)Modern Space: Asante Women's Place in a Capitalist Spatiality
Auntie Pauline Sampene (Mobility)
Akwantu: Travel and the Making of RoadsAuntie Evelina Amoakohene (Education)
Anibuei: Civilization and the Opening of Eyes
Akosua Serwa Opoku-Bonsu (Economics)
Sikas?m: Money Matters and the Love of Gold
Nana Sarpoma (Asante Identity)
Process not State, Becoming not Being
Towards a Pedagogy of Critical Spatial Literacy