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Title The governance of daily life in Africa : ethnographic explorations of public and collective services / [edited] by Giorgio Blundo and Pierre-Yves Le Meur.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 347 pages) : map.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series African social studies series, 1568-1203 ; v. 19
African social studies series ; v. 19.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Contents 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, 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.
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Subject Local government -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Local government.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Public-private sector cooperation -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Public-private sector cooperation.
Local government -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Case studies.
Public-private sector cooperation -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Electronic books -- Case studies.
Electronic books -- Case studies.
Case studies.
Added Author Blundo, Giorgio.
Le Meur, Pierre-Yves, 1962-
Other Form: Print version: Governance of daily life in Africa. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 9789004171282 (DLC) 2008029645 (OCoLC)233635106
ISBN 9789047424598 (electronic book)
904742459X (electronic book)
9789004171282 (paper)
9004171282 (paper)
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004171282.i-347