Urban States: The Presidency and Planning in Luanda, Angola

Claudia Gastrow, Lecturer in Anthropologyat the University of Johannesburgand STIAS Iso Lomso fellowwill present a talk with the title: The Discomforts of Home: Class, Infrastructure and Aesthesis in Luanda, Angola Abstract This talk investigates how infrastructures – both official and unofficial – are the objects through which residents of Luanda experience exclusion and status.