The making of the African road / / 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 stil...
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| Superior document: | Africa-Europe group for interdisciplinary studies ; v. 18 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017] |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 278 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Kurt Beck , Gabriel Klaeger and Michael Stasik
- 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 Bürge
- 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
- Index / Kurt Beck , Gabriel Klaeger and Michael Stasik.