The making of the African road / edited by Kurt Beck, Gabriel Klaeger, Michael Stasik.
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TextSeries: African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 18.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 278 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9789004339040
- 9004339043
- Roads -- Social aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Travel -- Social aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Description and travel
- Routes -- Aspect social -- Afrique subsaharienne
- Voyage -- Aspect social -- Afrique subsaharienne
- Afrique subsaharienne -- Descriptions et voyages
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Transportation
- TRANSPORTATION -- Public Transportation
- Roads -- Social aspects
- Travel
- Travel -- Social aspects
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- 388.10967 23
- HE367.A45 M35 2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
An introduction to the African road / Kurt Beck, Gabriel Klaeger and Michael Stasik -- Roadside involution, or How many people do you need to run a lorry park? / Michael Stasik -- Jam-space and jam-time : traffic in Nairobi / Amiel Bize -- Stories of the road : perceptions of power, progress and perils on the Accra-Kumasi road, Ghana / Gabriel Klaeger -- Biographies of roads, biographies of nations : history, territory and the road effect in post-conflict Somaliland / Luca Ciabarri -- Cosmological work at the crossroads : commercial motorbike riders in Makeni, Sierra Leone / Michael Burge -- Ruin, or repair? : infrastructural sociality and an economy of disappearances along a rural road in Kenya / Mark Lamont -- Negotiating desert routes : travelling practices on the forty days road / Rami Wadelnour -- Teda drivers on the road between Agadez and Assheggur : taking over an ancient Tuareg caravan route / Tilman Musch -- Technological dramas on the road : the 'artery of the north highway' in the Sudan / Kurt Beck.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 14, 2017).
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.
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