Birth of a market town in Tanzania: towards narrative studies of urban Africa
Birth of a market town in Tanzania: towards narrative studies of urban Africa
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坦桑尼亚集镇的诞生：非洲城市叙事研究
DOI：
10.1080/17531055.2011.571389
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Bryceson D
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Bryceson D
撒哈拉以南非洲的社会科学文献主要关注农村背景下的现象。城市分析目前势头强劲，主要集中在非洲大陆的首都城市，特别是拉各斯、金沙萨和约翰内斯堡等大城市。规模较小且具有政治重要性的城市住区很少受到关注。本文探讨了卡托罗的城市增长动态，卡托罗是坦桑尼亚西北采矿前沿的一个快速扩张的小镇。追溯卡托罗的早期起源及其在设计、自然资源利用和服务开发方面作为区域贸易中心的发展，有人认为从农村到城市定居点的转变绝非偶然。该定居点主要早期定居者的实际关切和国际化视野使卡托罗在坦桑尼亚社会主义和新自由主义政策的连续阶段中走上了人口扩张和经济增长的轨道。为了应对区域金矿开采和国际边境贸易提供的机遇，长期居民和新移民创建了一个繁荣的贸易和服务中心，其“繁荣”特征与周边地区的淘金定居点截然不同。卡托罗的成功必须从标量的角度来看待，并提出了非洲城市研究中分析偏差的问题。目前，描写非洲大城市城市生活的不可预测性和混乱的文学作品已经占据了舞台的中心，而作为非洲城市未来基础的小型城市住区的动态却在很大程度上被忽视了。本文旨在解决文献中的标量失衡问题，并引起人们对个人生计活动与城市宏观经济绩效之间的中观层面的关注。
Sub-Saharan Africa's social science literature has primarily focused on phenomena within the rural village context. Urban analysis is currently gaining momentum with concentration on the continent's capital cities, and in particular the mega cities of Lagos, Kinshasa and Johannesburg. Urban settlements of more modest size and political importance have received scant attention. This article explores the urban growth dynamics of Katoro, a rapidly expanding small town in Tanzania's northwest mining frontier. Tracing Katoro's early origins and its growth as a regional trading centre with respect to design, natural resource utilization and service development, it is argued that the transition from rural to urban settlement is far from accidental. The practical concerns and cosmopolitan vision of the settlement's leading early settlers set Katoro on a trajectory of demographic expansion and economic growth through successive stages of Tanzanian socialist and neo-liberalist policies. Responding to the opportunities afforded by regional gold mining and international border trade, longstanding residents and recent migrants created a thriving centre for the provision of trade and services that had “boom” characteristics distinct from gold strike settlements in the surrounding area. Katoro's success must be seen in scalar terms, and raises issues about analytical biases in African urban studies. Current literature dramatizing the unpredictability and chaos of urban life in Africa's mega cities has taken centre stage, leaving the dynamics of smaller urban settlements, foundational to the future of urban Africa largely ignored. This article seeks to address the literature's scalar imbalance and draw attention to the meso level between individual livelihood activities and macro economic urban performance.
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