@book{gastrow_2024, place={Chapel Hill, NC}, title={The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda}, ISBN={9781469682174}, publisher={The University of North Carolina Press}, author={Gastrow, Claudia}, year={2024} }
 @inbook{gastrow_2024, title={The Socialist Atlantic}, url={https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003422648-2}, DOI={10.4324/9781003422648-2}, abstractNote={This chapter uses Cuban–Angolan internationalist solidarity to explore the role of Atlantic Ocean histories in the making of 20th-century Luanda. Focusing on apartment blocks designed and built during the 1970s and 1980s by Cuban experts in cooperation with Angolans, it shows how both the planning and everyday experience of these buildings mobilized and created networks of solidarity and sociality based in oceanic histories. As such, the chapter sheds light into the making of an Atlantic socialist world through built form, and how this shaped and continues to shape Luanda's cityscape.}, author={Gastrow, Claudia}, year={2024}, month={Jul} }
 @article{gastrow_2022, title={Aesthetics and the Making of Urban Futures in Luanda, Angola}, volume={11}, DOI={10.56949/2ciq9563}, journal={International Journal of Urban and Regional Research}, publisher={Urban Research Publications Ltd}, author={Gastrow, Claudia}, year={2022}, month={Nov} }
 @article{gastrow_2022, title={‘If Angola were Libya’: protest and politics in Angola}, volume={108}, DOI={10.1353/trn.2022.0008}, abstractNote={The first two decades of the 2000s were characterised by what has been termed Africa’s ‘third wave’ of protest, which highlighted the shortcomings of multi-party democracy and neoliberal economic policies. Angola was no exception to this trend, with small protests, beginning in 2011 and continuing into the present. Angola’s protests generated public contestations between protestors and the incumbent regime over what constituted legitimate political engagement. This contestation raised the question of what exactly defined democratic representation. The ruling MPLA appealed to established political institutions and practice to claim it embodied a democratic mandate. In contrast, protestors argued that the ruling party had emptied out the very rituals and laws it claimed to represent, thereby rendering their actions more representative of popular sentiment. What became clear was that discourses of democracy could be used for both liberatory, as well as repressive, actions. These contestations in Angola, reveal how third wave protests called for a rethinking of democracy.}, number={1}, journal={Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa}, publisher={Project MUSE}, author={Gastrow, Claudia}, year={2022}, pages={11–34} }
 @inbook{gastrow_2021, title={Capturing Poder Popular: Governance and Control in Early Socialist Luanda, 1975–c. 1979}, DOI={10.4000/books.editionsmsh.51455}, booktitle={Socialismes en Afrique}, publisher={Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme}, author={Gastrow, Claudia}, year={2021}, pages={433–453} }
 @article{gastrow_2020, title={DIY Verticality: The Politics of Materiality in Luanda}, volume={32}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12242}, DOI={10.1111/ciso.12242}, abstractNote={AbstractA growing body of work has highlighted the centrality of verticality to the making of contemporary urbanism, pushing scholars to begin conceptualising inequality, politics, and planning as multi‐scalar in nature. This paper builds off these interventions to argue that verticality should be understood as a fragile and unstable achievement, a fragility heightened when the oft‐taken for granted workings of the state and private sector, which enable the appearance of verticality as a seamless achievement, fail. Drawing on research conducted in Luanda, Angola, this paper explores how residents, planners, and real estate developers discuss the difficulties of maintaining the experience, materiality, and imaginations of verticality as embodied in the architectural form of the high‐rise. The paper shows that in the context of ongoing urban decay and the seeming abnegation of most state responsibility for provision, urban residents are forced to engage in the production of a DIY verticality—constantly patching and repairing buildings to keep them viable, actions which in turn pull them into relationships of privatized belonging with the city. As such, the paper argues that the material politics of the high‐rise in Luanda both highlights the fragility at the heart of verticality as well as the shifting forms of privatized belonging immanent to this fragility.}, number={1}, journal={City & Society}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Gastrow, Claudia}, year={2020}, month={Apr}, pages={93–117} }
 @article{gastrow_2020, title={Housing middle-classness: formality and the making of distinction in Luanda}, volume={90}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972020000054}, DOI={10.1017/s0001972020000054}, abstractNote={AbstractAs one of the primary personal sites of financial investment, expression and public performance, housing has stood at the centre of contemporary studies of class in Africa. This article adds to the existing literature on housing and class by exploring residents’ desires for formal housing in post-conflict Luanda, Angola. Luanda's residents increasingly believed that access to formal housing, not necessarily always legally but rather aesthetically defined, was a primary means of affirming middle-class status. By highlighting the links between class, urban formality and the state, the article argues that formal housing became a means for both the state and Luandans to produce middle-classness. Existing beliefs about comportment and urban aesthetics, which anchored subjective understandings of class in the house, intersected with a political economy in which the state played a central role in enabling access to new residences. As such, formality has become a key means through which middle-classness is transforming urban landscapes, opening up discussions about aesthetic belonging, financial stability and the role of the state in the making of Africa's middle classes.}, number={3}, journal={Africa}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Gastrow, Claudia}, year={2020}, month={May}, pages={509–528} }
 @inbook{gastrow_2020, place={Bristol, United Kingdom}, title={The Politics of Repair: Talatona and Luxury Urbanism in Luanda, Angola}, ISBN={9781789382211}, booktitle={African Luxury: Aesthetics and Politics edited by Mehita Iqani and Simidele Dosekun}, publisher={Intellect}, author={Gastrow, Claudia}, editor={Iqani, Mehita and Dosekun, SimideleEditors}, year={2020} }
 @article{gastrow_2020, title={Urban States: The Presidency and Planning in Luanda, Angola}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85078767537&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1111/1468-2427.12854}, abstractNote={AbstractWhile state institutions are involved in planning and governance in African cities, their relevance in shaping urban life is sometimes questioned given what residents often experience as the extreme incapacity of state agencies. In response, some scholars have sought to rethink the nature of institutions, while others have shifted their attention to the role of the everyday in the making of cities. This article builds on literature that seeks to better understand the links between quotidian actions and institutional constraints, in order to critically assess how state power is exercised in African cities. It does this by tracking the Presidency's role in shaping Angola's capital, Luanda, in the 1990s and 2000s. The Presidency consolidated power through the urban landscape even in moments when it seemed state presence had totally collapsed. The article therefore shows that a more nuanced understanding of the logics of power in African cities can reveal the ongoing significance of state institutions to their making, even in contexts where the everyday experience of state capacity is one of absence or negligence.}, journal={International Journal of Urban and Regional Research}, author={Gastrow, C.}, year={2020} }
 @article{ball_gastrow_2019, title={Angola: Nationalist Narratives and Alternative Histories}, volume={45}, DOI={10.17159/2309-9585/2019/v45a1}, number={1}, journal={Kronos}, publisher={Academy of Science of South Africa}, author={Ball, Jeremy and Gastrow, Claudia}, year={2019} }
 @inbook{gastrow_2019, title={RECYCLING CONSUMPTION:}, DOI={10.18772/22019053641.9}, booktitle={Conspicuous Consumption in Africa}, publisher={Wits University Press}, author={GASTROW, CLAUDIA}, year={2019}, month={May}, pages={79–95} }
 @article{gastrow_2019, title={Reflections on Angola's 1992 Election: A Photo Essay}, volume={45}, DOI={10.17159/2309-9585/2019/v45a5}, number={1}, journal={Kronos}, publisher={Academy of Science of South Africa}, author={Gastrow, Claudia}, year={2019} }
 @article{gastrow_2017, title={Cement citizens: housing, demolition and political belonging in Luanda, Angola}, volume={21}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85011851562&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1080/13621025.2017.1279795}, abstractNote={Abstract Slum demolition in the name of urban renewal is a common practice in contemporary African cities. Many organisations have tracked the rights violations that demolitions entail. What has been overlooked, however, is the political significance of slums, which this paper argues produce their own imaginations of ‘good urbanism’ becoming critical sites for the imagining of urban political belonging. Exploring the case of urban redevelopment and slum demolition in Luanda, Angola, this paper argues that in this megacity, quotidian notions of citizenship are mediated through the material and aesthetic worlds of slum housing construction, more specifically the cement-block house. It draws on theories that understand citizenship and belonging not simply as juridical categories but more substantively produced through shared imaginations and symbolic worlds. This paper shows that urban politics needs to be understood as mediated through deeply material struggles over emplacement and incorporation that hinge on competing normative visions of the urban.}, number={2}, journal={Citizenship Studies}, author={Gastrow, C.}, year={2017}, pages={224–239} }
 @article{gastrow_2017, title={Aesthetic Dissent: Urban Redevelopment and Political Belonging in Luanda, Angola}, volume={49}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84982193690&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1111/anti.12276}, abstractNote={Over the previous decade, African cities experienced a wave of frenzied construction driven by imaginations of world-city status. While these projects provoked new discussions about African urbanism, the literature on them has focused more on the paperwork of planning than actual urban experiences. This article addresses this lacuna by investigating residents' reactions to the post-conflict building boom in Luanda, Angola. I show that Luandans' held highly ambivalent orientations towards the emerging city. Their views were shaped by suspicions about pacts between Angolan elites and international capital that recapitulated longstanding tensions over national belonging. These concerns were voiced via discussions of the very aesthetics of the new city. Buildings became catalysts for expressions of dissent that put into question the very project of state-driven worlding. The paper therefore argues that the politics of aesthetics are central to grasping the contested understandings of urbanism currently emerging in various African cities.}, number={2}, journal={Antipode}, author={Gastrow, C.}, year={2017}, pages={377–396} }
 @article{gastrow_josse-durand_2013, title={«  Vamos construir !  » : revendications foncières et géographie du pouvoir à Luanda, Angola}, volume={N° 132}, DOI={10.3917/polaf.132.0049}, abstractNote={Cet article se penche sur les questions de propriété, de citoyenneté et d’autorité de l’État à Luanda. Il étudie la façon dont les victimes de démolitions urbaines, en essayant d’obtenir compensation pour la perte de leur propriété, remettent en cause des formes établies de relations entre État et citoyens. L’auteure avance que la croyance dans le pouvoir du Mouvement populaire de libération de l’Angola (MPLA) a conduit de nombreuses victimes de démolitions à s’en éloigner précisément parce qu’elles le considéraient comme responsable de leurs malheurs. En prenant comme point de départ une réflexion sur l’autorité de l’État constituée de façon dialogique par la reconnaissance mutuelle entre État et citoyens, l’article montre comment les victimes de démolitions ont essayé de déplacer leur quête de reconnaissance en­dehors de la sphère du parti vers d’autres sphères que sont la loi et l’esthétique urbaine. Ce faisant, elles offrent une alternative au type de relations politiques qui sont à la base du pouvoir du MPLA, contribuant à l’érosion de son hégémonie.}, number={4}, journal={Politique africaine}, publisher={CAIRN}, author={Gastrow, Claudia and Josse-Durand, Chloé}, year={2013}, month={Dec}, pages={49–72} }
 @article{gastrow_2005, title={Struggling for freedom}, volume={6}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85007838842&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1080/17533170500306403}, abstractNote={The author explores the divestment activism at UIUC between the years 1977 and 1987, and in the process highlights the central arguments and themes that arose as the movement developed. In particular the author stresses issues that became salient during the movement's existence: the proper role of a university in society, the moral grounds for divestment, issues of democracy within the university, and racism on campus. In highlighting the intense debate and activity that took place at UIUC, this study remembers a forgotten historical development in the history of the university, and, by providing a micro-study of one particular grass-roots group and its achievements, plays a small part in countering the “great man” historical approach that threatens to skew the historical record by ignoring the significant impact of grassroots organizations in the U.S. anti-apartheid movement}, number={4}, journal={Safundi}, author={Gastrow, C.}, year={2005}, pages={1–26} }