The governance of daily life in Africa : : ethnographic explorations of public and collective services / / editors, Giorgio Blundo, Pierre-Yves Le Meur.

• Superior document: African social studies series, v. 19
• TeilnehmendeR: Blundo, Giorgio.; Le Meur, Pierre-Yves, 1962-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: African social studies series ; 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 347 pages) :; map
• Other title: Preliminary Materials /; Introduction An Anthropology Of Everyday Governance: Collective Service Delivery And Subject-Making /; State Bureaucracy And Governance In Francophone West Africa: An Empirical Diagnosis And Historical Perspective /; ‘Bad Governance’ And The Persistence Of Alternative Political Arenas: A Study Of A Tanzanian Region /; How Can The Local Level Exist? The Case Of The Decentralisation Of The Health System In Cameroon /; Like Chameleons: Civil Servants And Corruption In Malawi /; Urban Dwellers, Politicians And Dirt: An Anthropology Of Everyday Governance In Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) /; Ma-Slaan-Pa Dockets: Negotiations At The Boundary Between The Private And The Public /; Liquid Waste Management In Urban And Rural Ghana: Privatisation As Governance? /; Reclaiming Politics In The Bureaucratic Space Of A Burundian Refugee Camp In Tanzania /; The Politics Of Transferring And Managing Land In The ‘New’ South Africa /; Humanitarian Governance: Assisting Mauritanian Refugees In Senegal /; The Daily Governance Of Environmental Health: Gender Perspectives From Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania /; Public Goods And The Management Of Collective Infrastructure: The Case Of The Drinking-Water Supply Systems In The Maradi Region Of Niger /; Contributors /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1282400304; 9786612400308; 904742459X
• ISSN: 1568-1203
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: editors, Giorgio Blundo, Pierre-Yves Le Meur.

Anchored in an empirically-grounded anthropology, this book explores the notion of governance in a non-normative way. It 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. The book draws on case studies from Anglophone and Francophone Africa, crossing anthropological traditions that have too often evolved in parallel directions and dealing with a range of topics such as health, water supply, sanitation and waste management, security, humanitarian aid, land issues and decentralisation. Beyond African boundaries, it contributes to current debates about governmentality, public policy, subject making, public/private boundaries, and the role of the state.