Every Household Its Own Government : Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria /

"An up-close account of how Nigerians' self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state powerWhen Nigerians say that every household is its own local government, what they mean is that the politicians and state institutions of Af...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Smith, Daniel Jordan, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Public utilities.
Public administration.
Infrastructure (Economics)
Economic policy.
HISTORY / Africa / West.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African Studies.
Public utilities > Nigeria.
Public administration > Nigeria.
Infrastructure (Economics) > Nigeria.
Nigeria.
Nigeria > Economic policy.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Empty pipes and H2O entrepreneurs: boreholes, cart pushers, and "pure water"
  • Problem has changed name": electric power and consumer citizenship
  • Okadas and danfos: "public transportation" in Nigeria
  • "Be what you want to be": cell phones and social inequality
  • "They don't know what i have not taught them": the privatization of public schooling
  • "Sleeping with one eye open": infrastructural insecurity.

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