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Publication details [#49820]

Cunningham Bissell, William. 2007. Casting a long shadow: colonial categories, cultural identities, and cosmopolitan spaces in globalizing Africa. African Identities 5 (2) : 181–197.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | cultural anthropology | globalization | identity negotiation | urbanization

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper examines the continuing hold of colonial categories in current constructions of African urbanism, even in the transnational and cosmopolitan urban milieu of Mji Mkongwe (Zanzibar), where past discourses of anthropological culture and classification have markedly come to the front.