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Bottleneck : moving, building, and belonging in an African city /

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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 o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Melly, Caroline (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Social mobility > Senegal > Dakar.
Sociology, Urban > Senegal > Dakar.
Globalization > Social aspects.
Ethnology.
Dakar (Senegal) > Social conditions.
Table of 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.