The making of the African road /

The making of the African road / edited by Kurt Beck, Gabriel Klaeger, Michael Stasik. - 1 online resource (xi, 278 pages) - Africa-Europe group for interdisciplinary studies ; volume 18 . - African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 18. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An introduction to the African road / Roadside involution, or How many people do you need to run a lorry park? / Jam-space and jam-time : traffic in Nairobi / Stories of the road : perceptions of power, progress and perils on the Accra-Kumasi road, Ghana / Biographies of roads, biographies of nations : history, territory and the road effect in post-conflict Somaliland / Cosmological work at the crossroads : commercial motorbike riders in Makeni, Sierra Leone / Ruin, or repair? : infrastructural sociality and an economy of disappearances along a rural road in Kenya / Negotiating desert routes : travelling practices on the forty days road / Teda drivers on the road between Agadez and Assheggur : taking over an ancient Tuareg caravan route / Technological dramas on the road : the 'artery of the north highway' in the Sudan / Kurt Beck, Gabriel Klaeger and Michael Stasik -- Michael Stasik -- Amiel Bize -- Gabriel Klaeger -- Luca Ciabarri -- Michael Burge -- Mark Lamont -- Rami Wadelnour -- Tilman Musch -- Kurt Beck.

The Making of the African Road offers anthropological accounts of the infrastructural, economic, political, historical as well as experiential dimensions of the African long-distance road and explores its emerging orders.

9789004339040 (electronic book) 9004339043 (electronic book) (paperback alkaline paper)

10.1163/9789004339040

2016056162


Roads--Social aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Travel--Social aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Routes--Aspect social--Afrique subsaharienne.
Voyage--Aspect social--Afrique subsaharienne.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Industries--Transportation.
TRANSPORTATION--Public Transportation.
Roads--Social aspects.
Travel.
Travel--Social aspects.


Africa, Sub-Saharan--Description and travel.
Afrique subsaharienne--Descriptions et voyages.
Sub-Saharan Africa.


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