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The making of the African road /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2017]
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| Colección: | African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ;
v. 18. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.