“Chicala is not a small neighbourhood” presents

a perspective of Angola’s capital often ignored

in accounts of the country’s current Neo-liberal

trajectory. Thanks to a comprehensive compilation of

contributions by emerging and established experts,

practitioners and researchers from different fields,

this book delves into a particular urban context, from

the bottom-up, showing Luanda as far more complex

a city than a straightforward capitalist topography of

consumption surrounded by desperate metabolisms

of survival.