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    Chapter 13 The Porous Infrastructures of Somali Malls in Cape Town

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    Tayob, Huda cc
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    English
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    Abstract
    This chapter takes as its subject a series of contingent mixed-use urban markets that have been established in Cape Town, South Africa, by migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers from various parts of the African continent. Known colloquially as ‘Somali malls,’ these markets typically occupy once-vacant or underused office blocks, filling them with multiple small shops, services, and residences. Read through the lens of infrastructure, these spaces of flows tie Somali diasporic communities into transnational networks of sociality and exchange. Through novel forms of organization, procurement, display, and hospitality, proprietors optimize the spaces internally within buildings while at the same time constructing networks that exceed the building envelope, creating a flexible, multiscalar set of practices. Women comprise the large majority of traders in the Somali malls, carving out spaces not only for merchandising and earning a living, but also for the construction of migrant sociality in a new and unfamiliar world. This research approach is grounded in broader anthropological approaches and architectural fieldwork methods. The resultant multiscalar reading of informal migrant markets, not usually found in spatial archives, questions dominant readings of infrastructures in post-colonial contexts.
    Book
    The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58515
    Keywords
    Infrastructure, cape town, somali malls, architecture, global perspectives
    DOI
    10.4324/9781003093756-18
    ISBN
    9780367554910, 9781032188393, 9781003093756
    Publisher
    Taylor & Francis
    Publisher website
    https://taylorandfrancis.com/
    Publication date and place
    2022
    Grantor
    • University of Manchester
    Imprint
    Routledge
    Classification
    Architecture
    Pages
    11
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
    • Imported or submitted locally

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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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