Moving, Building, and Belonging in an African City
by
Caroline Melly
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
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...