| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 278 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Africa-Europe group for interdisciplinary studies ; volume 18
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African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 18.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 Burge -- 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. |
| Summary |
The Making of the African Road offers anthropological accounts of the infrastructural, economic, political, historical as well as experiential dimensions of the African long-distance road and explores its emerging orders. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Roads -- Social aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Roads -- Social aspects. |
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Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Roads. |
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Travel -- Social aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Travel -- Social aspects. |
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Travel. |
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Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Description and travel.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Beck, Kurt, editor.
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Klaeger, Gabriel, editor.
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Stasik, Michael, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Making of the African road. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004336742 (DLC) 2016054805 (OCoLC)962553134 |
| ISBN |
9789004339040 (electronic book) |
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9004339043 (electronic book) |
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9789004336742 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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9004336745 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004339040 |
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