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Bottleneck : moving, building, and belonging in an African city / Caroline Melly.
Author
Melly, Caroline
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
©2017
Description
x, 186 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HN829.D3 M455 2017
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Subject(s)
Social mobility
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Senegal
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Dakar
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Sociology, Urban
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Senegal
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Dakar
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Globalization
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Social aspects
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Ethnology
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Dakar (Senegal)
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Social conditions
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Summary note
In Bottleneck, anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wide-ranging study of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a successful future. Melly opens with an account of the generation of urban men who came of age on the heels of the era of structural adjustment, a diverse cohort with great dreams of building, moving, and belonging, but frustratingly few opportunities to do so. From there, she moves to a close study of taxi drivers and state workers, and shows how bottlenecks physical and institutional affect both. The third section of the book covers a seemingly stalled state effort to solve housing problems by building large numbers of concrete houses, while the fourth takes up the thousands of migrants who attempt, sometimes with tragic results, to cross the Mediterranean on rickety boats in search of new opportunities. The resulting book offers a remarkable portrait of contemporary Senegal and a means of theorizing mobility and its impossibilities far beyond the African continent. -- Amazon.com.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-182) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Embouteillage
Making mobility matter
Trafficking visions
Inhabiting inside-out houses
The adjusted state in the meantime
Telling tales of missing men
Conclusion / Embouteillage and its limits.
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ISBN
9780226488875 (hardcover)
022648887X (hardcover)
9780226488905 (paperback)
022648890X (paperback)
LCCN
2017003727
OCLC
971462755
Other standard number
40027569781
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