Monrovia Modern

Autorentext

Danny Hoffman

Klappentext

Danny Hoffman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington and the author of The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia, also published by Duke University Press. As a photojournalist, he documented conflicts in southern Africa and the Balkans from 1994 to 1998.

Zusammenfassung
Danny Hoffman uses the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia as a way to explore the relationship between the built environment and political imagination, showing how these former symbols of modernist nation building transformed into representations of the challenges that Monrovia's residents face.

Inhalt

Illustrations xiii
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction 1

1. Live Dangerously, My Brothers: Ex-Combatants and the Political Economy of Space 33
2. The Ministry of Defense: Excessive Architecture 61
3. E. J. Roye: The Corporate (Post)Modern 91
4. Hotel Africa: The Uncritical Ruin 115
5. Liberia Broadcasting System: Three Utopias 143
6. Finding Urban Form: A Coda 175
   Notes 183
   References 189
   Index 203