@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={Abstract}, 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={Abstract}, number={3}, journal={Africa}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Gastrow, Claudia}, year={2020}, month={May}, pages={509–528} }
 @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={Abstract}, journal={International Journal of Urban and Regional Research}, author={Gastrow, C.}, year={2020} }
 @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_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_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} }