Spatial Literacy: Contemporary Asante Women's Place-making (Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora)

This book makes a case for an urgent praxis of critical spatial literacy, especially for women of African descent. It does so by providing an analysis of fifteen Asante women's negotiation of the politics of space in Accra and beyond; hence, demonstrating how they critically read the postmodern world in order to make place within it. Ultimately, the author discusses her development of a feminist, 'renegade' architectural project that reveals these contemporary women's critical literacy of space to be that in which they perceive and respond to the significant socio-spatial effects of akwantu, anibuei ne sikasem: that is, travel, 'civilization,' and economics.