The governance of daily life in Africa : : ethnographic explorations of public and collective services / / 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 pr...

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Superior document:African social studies series, v. 19
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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
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Materials / Giorgio Blundo and Pierre-Yves Le Meur
  • Introduction An Anthropology Of Everyday Governance: Collective Service Delivery And Subject-Making / Giorgio Blundo and Pierre-Yves Le Meur
  • State Bureaucracy And Governance In Francophone West Africa: An Empirical Diagnosis And Historical Perspective / Jean-Pierre Olivier De Sardan
  • ‘Bad Governance’ And The Persistence Of Alternative Political Arenas: A Study Of A Tanzanian Region / Felicitas Becker
  • How Can The Local Level Exist? The Case Of The Decentralisation Of The Health System In Cameroon / Marc-Éric Gruénais , Raphaël Okalla and Eric Gauvrit
  • Like Chameleons: Civil Servants And Corruption In Malawi / Gerhard Anders
  • Urban Dwellers, Politicians And Dirt: An Anthropology Of Everyday Governance In Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) / Jacky Bouju
  • Ma-Slaan-Pa Dockets: Negotiations At The Boundary Between The Private And The Public / Julia C. Hornberger
  • Liquid Waste Management In Urban And Rural Ghana: Privatisation As Governance? / Sjaak Van Der Geest and Nelson Obirih-Opareh
  • Reclaiming Politics In The Bureaucratic Space Of A Burundian Refugee Camp In Tanzania / Simon Turner
  • The Politics Of Transferring And Managing Land In The ‘New’ South Africa / Wiebe Nauta
  • Humanitarian Governance: Assisting Mauritanian Refugees In Senegal / Marion Fresia
  • The Daily Governance Of Environmental Health: Gender Perspectives From Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania / Brigit Obrist Van Eeuwijk
  • Public Goods And The Management Of Collective Infrastructure: The Case Of The Drinking-Water Supply Systems In The Maradi Region Of Niger / Mahaman Tidjani Alou
  • Contributors / Giorgio Blundo and Pierre-Yves Le Meur
  • Index / Giorgio Blundo and Pierre-Yves Le Meur.