The Making of the African Road (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies): 18 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004336745 ISBN 13: 9789004336742

Publisher: Brill, 2017

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004336745
• ISBN 13: 9789004336742
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290
• Editor: Beck Kurt, Klaeger Gabriel, Stasik Michael