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Name: Claudia Gastrow
Location: D Ring 502 A Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Tel: 011 559 3931
Email: cgastrow@uj.ac.za
About Dr Claudia Gastrow
Education
i History and Politics (University of Cape Town)
BA (Hons) History (University of Cape Town)
MA African Studies (Universität Basel)
PhD Anthropology (University of Chicago)
Research Interests
I am a socio-cultural anthropologist with research interests in urban studies, political anthropology, material culture, Lusophone Africa, Central Africa and Southern Africa. My work focuses specifically on questions of political belonging and urbanism in Luanda, Angola. I am currently working on a book investigating the role of the built environment and urban aesthetics in mediating political concepts and practices in post-conflict Luanda, Angola. I have two new planned research projects. The first investigates life during Angola’s oil bust, and the second explores urban informal governance in Luanda.
Publications
Journal Articles
| 2017 | Cement Citizens: Housing, Demolition and Political Belonging in Luanda, Angola. Citizenship Studies. 21(2): 224 – 239 |
| 2017 | Aesthetic Dissent: Urban Redevelopment and Political Belonging in Luanda, Angola. Antipode. 49 (2): 377 – 396 |
| 2015 | Thinking Futures through the Slum. The Avery Review. September. Issue 9. http://www.averyreview.com/issues/9/thinking-futures |
| 2014 | “Vamos Construir!“: Revendications Foncières Et Géographie Du Pouvoir À Luanda, Angola” e Africaine. No 132: 49 – 72. |
Public Anthropology
| 2016 | Design and Temporality: Integration. Cultural Anthropology. Conversations on-line: http://culanth.org/fieldsights/909-design-and-temporality-integration 27 June. |
Media and Public Commentary
| 2017 | No Change on the Horizon for Angola. Cape Times. 22 February. |
| 2016 | Dos Santos maintains the status quo while suggesting change in Angola. The Conversation. 29 March. https://theconversation.com/dos-santos-maintains-the-status-quo-while-suggesting-change-in-angola-56883 |
| 2015 | Why the residents of Luanda are asking: Where did all the riches go? The Conversation. 29 October. https://theconversation.com/why-luandas-residents-are-asking-where-did-all-the-oil-riches-go-49772 |
| 2013 | The Increasingly Shaky Edifice of Luanda. 8 November. Africa Is a Country. http://africasacountry.com/author/claudia-gastrow/ Concrete Politics. 2 January. Urban Africa http://urbanafrica.net/news/2013/01/02/concrete-politics o: Plans Unravel. 11 January. Urban Africa. http://urbanafrica.net/news/2013/01/11/zango-plans-unravel |
| 2012 | China and the expansion of Luanda. 27 September. http://imap.urbanafrica.net/news/2012/09/27/china-and-expansion-luanda Angolan Elections 2012: Beer and Circuses no Longer Enough. 30 August. African Arguments. http://africanarguments.org/2012/08/30/angolan-elections-2012-beer-and-circuses-no-longer-enough-by-claudia-gastrow/ |