The Making of the African Road

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-33674-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 419 g

Reihe: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies

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 still under construction, and it is made in more than one sense: physically, socially, politically, morally and cosmologically. The contributions to this volume provide first-hand anthropological insights into the infrastructural, economic, historical as well as experiential dimensions of the emerging orders of the African road.

Contributors are: Kurt Beck, Amiel Bize, Michael Bürge, Luca Ciabarri, Gabriel Klaeger, Mark Lamont, Tilman Musch, Michael Stasik, Rami Wadelnour.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Beck, Kurt

Klaeger, Gabriel

Stasik, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Mobilität
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Wirtschaftsgeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Politische Geographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures
List of maps
List of contributors
Acknowledgments

1 An Introduction to the African Road
Kurt Beck, Gabriel Klaeger and Michael Stasik

2 Roadside Involution, Or How Many People Do You Need to Run a Lorry Park?
Michael Stasik

3 Jam-Space and Jam-Time: Traffic in Nairobi
Amiel Bize

4 Stories of the Road: Perceptions of Power, Progress and Perils on the Accra-Kumasi road, Ghana
Gabriel Klaeger

5 Biographies of Roads, Biographies of Nations: History, Territory and the Road Effect in Post-Conflict Somaliland
Luca Ciabarri

6 Cosmological Work at the Crossroads: Commercial Motorbike Riders in Makeni, Sierra Leone
Michael Bürge

7 Ruin, Or Repair? Infrastructural Sociality and an Economy of Disappearances along a Rural Road in Kenya
Mark Lamont

8 Negotiating Desert Routes: Travelling Practices on the Forty Days Road
Rami Wadelnour

9 Teda Drivers on the Road between Agadez and Assheggur: Taking over an Ancient Tuereg Caravan Route
Tilman Musch

10 Technological Dramas on the Road: The ‘Artery of the North Highway’ in the Sudan
Kurt Beck

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kurt Beck (Prof. Dr.), Chair of Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth, has published mainly on the anthropology of the Sudan.

Gabriel Klaeger (Dr.) works at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt. His PhD thesis is entitled Speed Matters: An Ethnography of a Ghanaian Highway.

Michael Stasik (M.A.) works at the Chair of Anthropology, University of Bayreuth. His PhD thesis is entitled Station Ventures: Road Transport, Roadside Economies and Urban Hustle in Ghana.