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 ; v. 18 .
- Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies 18. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2017-I, ISBN: 9789004328105. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / 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 / Index / Kurt Beck , Gabriel Klaeger and Michael Stasik -- Kurt Beck , Gabriel Klaeger and Michael Stasik -- Michael Stasik -- Amiel Bize -- Gabriel Klaeger -- Luca Ciabarri -- Michael Bürge -- Mark Lamont -- Rami Wadelnour -- Tilman Musch -- Kurt Beck -- Kurt Beck , Gabriel Klaeger and Michael Stasik.
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The Making of the African Road offers an account of the long-distance road in Africa. Being a latecomer to automobility and far from saturated mass mobility, the African road continues to be open for diverging interpretations and creative appropriations. The road regime on the continent is thus still under construction, and it is made in more than one sense: physically, socially, politically, morally and cosmologically. The contributions to this volume provide first-hand anthropological insights into the infrastructural, economic, historical as well as experiential dimensions of the emerging orders of the African road. Contributors are: Kurt Beck, Amiel Bize, Michael Bürge, Luca Ciabarri, Gabriel Klaeger, Mark Lamont, Tilman Musch, Michael Stasik, Rami Wadelnour.
9789004339040
10.1163/9789004339040 DOI
2016054805
Roads--Social aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Roads--Social aspects.
Travel.
Travel--Social aspects.
Africa, Sub-Saharan--Description and travel.
Africa, Sub-Saharan.
HE367.A45 / M35 2017
388.10967
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / 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 / Index / Kurt Beck , Gabriel Klaeger and Michael Stasik -- Kurt Beck , Gabriel Klaeger and Michael Stasik -- Michael Stasik -- Amiel Bize -- Gabriel Klaeger -- Luca Ciabarri -- Michael Bürge -- Mark Lamont -- Rami Wadelnour -- Tilman Musch -- Kurt Beck -- Kurt Beck , Gabriel Klaeger and Michael Stasik.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The Making of the African Road offers an account of the long-distance road in Africa. Being a latecomer to automobility and far from saturated mass mobility, the African road continues to be open for diverging interpretations and creative appropriations. The road regime on the continent is thus still under construction, and it is made in more than one sense: physically, socially, politically, morally and cosmologically. The contributions to this volume provide first-hand anthropological insights into the infrastructural, economic, historical as well as experiential dimensions of the emerging orders of the African road. Contributors are: Kurt Beck, Amiel Bize, Michael Bürge, Luca Ciabarri, Gabriel Klaeger, Mark Lamont, Tilman Musch, Michael Stasik, Rami Wadelnour.
9789004339040
10.1163/9789004339040 DOI
2016054805
Roads--Social aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Roads--Social aspects.
Travel.
Travel--Social aspects.
Africa, Sub-Saharan--Description and travel.
Africa, Sub-Saharan.
HE367.A45 / M35 2017
388.10967