The making of the African road / edited by Kurt Beck, Gabriel Klaeger, Michael Stasik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beck, Kurt, editor, author.

Klaeger, Gabriel, editor, author.

Stasik, Michael, editor, author.

Series:

African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 18.

Africa-Europe group for interdisciplinary studies ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roads--Social aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Roads.

Travel--Social aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Travel.

Travel--Social aspects.

Roads--Social aspects.

Africa, Sub-Saharan--Description and travel.

Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Physical Description:

xi, 278 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

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.0.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Making of the African road.

ISBN:

9789004336742

9004336745

OCLC:

962553134