Ghana on the go : African mobility in the age of motor transportation /

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As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse array of local agents, including chiefs, farmers, traders, fishermen, and urban workers. Jennifer Hart's powerful...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hart, Jennifer A. (Jennifer Anne) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Transportation, Automotive > Ghana > History.
Transportation, Automotive > Social aspects > Ghana.
Transportation, Automotive > Government policy > Ghana.
Automobiles > Social aspects > Ghana.
Transports routiers > Ghāna > Histoire.
Transports routiers > Aspect social > Ghāna.
Transports routiers > Politique gouvernementale > Ghāna.
Automobiles > Aspect social > Ghāna.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Transportation.
TRANSPORTATION > Public Transportation.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
Automobiles > Social aspects
Transportation, Automotive
Transportation, Automotive > Government policy
Transportation, Automotive > Social aspects
Ghana
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Auto/mobile lives
  • "All shall pass" : Indigenous entrepreneurs, colonial technopolitics, and the roots of African automobility, 1901-1939
  • "Honest labor" : public safety, private profit, and the professionalization of drivers, 1930-1945
  • "Modern men" : motor transportation and the politics of respectability, 1930s-1960s
  • "One man, no chop" : licit wealth, good citizens, and the criminalization of drivers in postcolonial Ghana
  • "Sweet not always" : automobility, state power, and the politics of development, 1980s-1990s
  • Epilogue: "no rest for the trotro driver" : ambivalence and automobility in twenty-first-century Ghana.

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