Claudia Gastrow (North Carolina State University), “The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous urbanism and city building in oil-boom Luanda” (Council on African Studies)

Claudia Gastrow is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. Her research interests include processes of city-making in Africa, architecture, materiality, Global South socialisms, histories of racial capitalism, risk and financialization.