The governance of daily life in Africa : ethnographic explorations of public and collective services /

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Explores the notion of governance in a non-normative way. This work describes and analyses the institutional and political processes through which social actors and groups - be they state, private or 'third-sector' - contribute to the provision of public and collective goods or services.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Blundo, Giorgio, Le Meur, Pierre-Yves, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series:African social studies series ; v. 19.
Subjects:
Local government > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Public-private sector cooperation > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Local government > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Case studies.
Public-private sector cooperation > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Case studies.
Administration locale > Afrique subsaharienne.
Partenariat public-privé > Afrique subsaharienne.
Administration locale > Afrique subsaharienne > Études de cas.
Partenariat public-privé > Afrique subsaharienne > Études de cas.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Local.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > State & Provincial.
Local government
Public-private sector cooperation
Politisches System
Staatsbürokratie
Good Governance
Korruption
Nichtstaatliche Organisation
Abfallwirtschaft
Wasserwirtschaft
Öffentliche Dienstleistung
Governance
Gemeinschaftseigentum
Kommunalpolitik.
Public Private Partnership.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Burkina Faso
Ghana
Kamerun
Malawi
Niger
Senegal
Tansania
Südafrika
Afrika
Afrika.
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : An anthropology of everyday governance : collective service delivery and subject-making / Giorgio Blundo and Pierre-Yves Le Meur
  • State bureaucracy and governance in Francophone West Africa : an empirical diagnosis and historical perspective / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
  • 'Bad governance' and the persistence of alternative political arenas : a study of a Tanzanian region / Felicitas Becker
  • How can the local level exist? The case of the decentralisation of the health system in Cameroon / Marc-Éric Gruénais, Raphaël Okalla, Eric Gauvrit
  • Like chameleons : civil servants and corruption in Malawi / Gerhard Anders
  • Urban dwellers, politicians and dirt : an anthropology of everyday governance in Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) / Jacky Bouju
  • Ma-slaan-pa dockets : negotiations at the boundary between the private and the public / Julia C. Hornberger
  • Liquid waste management in urban and rural Ghana : privatisation as governance? / Sjaak van der Geest and Nelson Obirih-Opareh
  • Reclaiming politics in the bureaucratic space of a Burundian refugee camp in Tanzania / Simon Turner
  • The politics of transferring and managing land in the 'new' South Africa / Wiebe Nauta
  • Humanitarian governance : assisting Mauritanian refugees in Senegal / Marion Fresia
  • The daily governance of environmental health : gender perspectives from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania / Brigit Obrist van Eeuwijk
  • Public goods and the management of collective infrastructure : the case of the drinking-water supply systems in the Maradi Region of Niger / Mahaman Tidjani Alou.

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