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.
Electronic books.
HE367.A45 / M35 2017
388.10967
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.
Electronic books.
HE367.A45 / M35 2017
388.10967