The Making of the African Road

Kurt Beck, Gabriel Klaeger, Michael Stasik (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

290 Seiten

2017
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-33674-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Kurt Beck (Prof. Dr.), Chair of Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth, has published mainly on the anthropology of the Sudan. Gabriel Klaeger (Dr.) works at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt. His PhD thesis is entitled Speed Matters: An Ethnography of a Ghanaian Highway. Michael Stasik (M.A.) works at the Chair of Anthropology, University of Bayreuth. His PhD thesis is entitled Station Ventures: Road Transport, Roadside Economies and Urban Hustle in Ghana.

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List of contributors
Acknowledgments

1 An Introduction to the African Road
Kurt Beck, Gabriel Klaeger and Michael Stasik

2 Roadside Involution, Or How Many People Do You Need to Run a Lorry Park?
Michael Stasik

3 Jam-Space and Jam-Time: Traffic in Nairobi
Amiel Bize

4 Stories of the Road: Perceptions of Power, Progress and Perils on the Accra-Kumasi road, Ghana
Gabriel Klaeger

5 Biographies of Roads, Biographies of Nations: History, Territory and the Road Effect in Post-Conflict Somaliland
Luca Ciabarri

6 Cosmological Work at the Crossroads: Commercial Motorbike Riders in Makeni, Sierra Leone
Michael Bürge

7 Ruin, Or Repair? Infrastructural Sociality and an Economy of Disappearances along a Rural Road in Kenya
Mark Lamont

8 Negotiating Desert Routes: Travelling Practices on the Forty Days Road
Rami Wadelnour

9 Teda Drivers on the Road between Agadez and Assheggur: Taking over an Ancient Tuereg Caravan Route
Tilman Musch

10 Technological Dramas on the Road: The ‘Artery of the North Highway’ in the Sudan
Kurt Beck

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Erscheinungsdatum	17.02.2017
Reihe/Serie	Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; 18
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-33674-5 / 9004336745
ISBN-13	978-90-04-33674-2 / 9789004336742
Zustand	Neuware