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

• Superior document: Africa-Europe group for interdisciplinary studies ; v. 18
• TeilnehmendeR: Beck, Kurt.; Klaeger, Gabriel.; Stasik, Michael.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies 18.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 278 pages)
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; An Introduction to the African Road /; Roadside Involution, Or How Many People Do You Need to Run a Lorry Park? /; Jam-Space and Jam-Time: Traffic in Nairobi /; Stories of the Road: Perceptions of Power, Progress and Perils on the Accra-Kumasi Road, Ghana /; Biographies of Roads, Biographies of Nations: History, Territory and the Road Effect in Post-conflict Somaliland /; Cosmological Work at the Crossroads: Commercial Motorbike Riders in Makeni, Sierra Leone /; Ruin, or Repair?: Infrastructural Sociality and an Economy of Disappearances along a Rural Road in Kenya /; Negotiating Desert Routes: Travelling Practices on the Forty Days Road /; Teda Drivers on the Road between Agadez and Assheggur: Taking over an Ancient Tuareg Caravan Route /; Technological Dramas on the Road: The ‘Artery of the North Highway’ in the Sudan /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004339043
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Kurt Beck, Gabriel Klaeger, Michael Stasik.

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.