How Long to Read Children of the Soil

How Long Does it Take to Read Children of the Soil?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 12 minutes to read Children of the Soil by Tasha Rijke-Epstein

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In Children of the Soil, Tasha Rijke-Epstein offers an urban history of the port city of Mahajanga, Madagascar, before, during, and after colonization. Drawing on archival and ethnographic evidence, she weaves together the lives and afterlives of built spaces to show how city residents negotiated imperial encroachment, colonial rule, and global racial capitalism over two centuries. From Mahajanga’s hilltop palace to the alluvial depths of its cesspools, the city’s spaces were domains for ideological debates between rulers and subjects, French colonizers and indigenous Malagasy peoples, and Comorian migrants and Indian traders. In these spaces, Mahajanga’s residents expressed competing moral theories about power over people and the land. The built world was also where varying populations reckoned with human, ancestral, and ecological pasts and laid present and future claims to urban belonging. Migrants from nearby Comoros harnessed built forms as anticipatory devices through which they sought to build their presence into the landscape and transform themselves from outsiders into "children of the soil" (zanatany). In tracing the centrality of Mahajanga’s architecture to everyday life, Rijke-Epstein offers new ways to understand the relationships between the material world, the more-than-human realm, and the making of urban life.

How long is Children of the Soil?

Children of the Soil by Tasha Rijke-Epstein is 251 pages long, and a total of 63,001 words.

This makes it 85% the length of the average book. It also has 77% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Children of the Soil Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 44 minutes to read Children of the Soil aloud.

What Reading Level is Children of the Soil?

Children of the Soil is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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