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The governance of daily life in Africa : ethnographic explorations of public and collective services / [edited] by Giorgio Blundo and Pierre-Yves Le Meur.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: African social studies series ; v. 19.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 347 pages) : mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789047424598
  • 904742459X
  • 9789004171282
  • 9004171282
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Governance of daily life in Africa.DDC classification:
  • 320.80967 22
LOC classification:
  • JS7525 .G673 2009eb
Other classification:
  • MI 10080
  • MI 10750
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : An anthropology of everyday governance : collective service delivery and subject-making / Giorgio Blundo and Pierre-Yves Le Meur -- State bureaucracy and governance in Francophone West Africa : an empirical diagnosis and historical perspective / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan -- 'Bad governance' and the persistence of alternative political arenas : a study of a Tanzanian region / Felicitas Becker -- How can the local level exist? The case of the decentralisation of the health system in Cameroon / Marc-Éric Gruénais, Raphaël Okalla, Eric Gauvrit -- Like chameleons : civil servants and corruption in Malawi / Gerhard Anders -- Urban dwellers, politicians and dirt : an anthropology of everyday governance in Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) / Jacky Bouju -- Ma-slaan-pa dockets : negotiations at the boundary between the private and the public / Julia C. Hornberger -- Liquid waste management in urban and rural Ghana : privatisation as governance? / Sjaak van der Geest and Nelson Obirih-Opareh -- Reclaiming politics in the bureaucratic space of a Burundian refugee camp in Tanzania / Simon Turner -- The politics of transferring and managing land in the 'new' South Africa / Wiebe Nauta -- Humanitarian governance : assisting Mauritanian refugees in Senegal / Marion Fresia -- The daily governance of environmental health : gender perspectives from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania / Brigit Obrist van Eeuwijk -- Public goods and the management of collective infrastructure : the case of the drinking-water supply systems in the Maradi Region of Niger / Mahaman Tidjani Alou.
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Introduction : An anthropology of everyday governance : collective service delivery and subject-making / Giorgio Blundo and Pierre-Yves Le Meur -- State bureaucracy and governance in Francophone West Africa : an empirical diagnosis and historical perspective / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan -- 'Bad governance' and the persistence of alternative political arenas : a study of a Tanzanian region / Felicitas Becker -- How can the local level exist? The case of the decentralisation of the health system in Cameroon / Marc-Éric Gruénais, Raphaël Okalla, Eric Gauvrit -- Like chameleons : civil servants and corruption in Malawi / Gerhard Anders -- Urban dwellers, politicians and dirt : an anthropology of everyday governance in Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) / Jacky Bouju -- Ma-slaan-pa dockets : negotiations at the boundary between the private and the public / Julia C. Hornberger -- Liquid waste management in urban and rural Ghana : privatisation as governance? / Sjaak van der Geest and Nelson Obirih-Opareh -- Reclaiming politics in the bureaucratic space of a Burundian refugee camp in Tanzania / Simon Turner -- The politics of transferring and managing land in the 'new' South Africa / Wiebe Nauta -- Humanitarian governance : assisting Mauritanian refugees in Senegal / Marion Fresia -- The daily governance of environmental health : gender perspectives from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania / Brigit Obrist van Eeuwijk -- Public goods and the management of collective infrastructure : the case of the drinking-water supply systems in the Maradi Region of Niger / Mahaman Tidjani Alou.

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