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Auteur(s) : Melly, Caroline. Auteur du texte
Titre(s) : Bottleneck [Texte imprimé] : moving, building, and belonging in an African city / Caroline Melly
Publication : Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago press, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : x, 186 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-182) and index
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
Sujet(s) : Mobilité sociale -- Dakar (Sénégal)
Vie urbaine -- Dakar (Sénégal)
Travail précaire -- Dakar (Sénégal)
Dakar (Sénégal) -- Société
Indice(s) Dewey : 307.760 9663 (23e éd.) = Communautés urbaines (sociologie) - Sénégal
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226488875. - ISBN 022648887X. - ISBN 9780226488905. - ISBN 022648890X. - ISBN 9780226489063 (erroné). - ISBN 022648906X (erroné)
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Table des matières : 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