Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Kurv
They Eat Our Sweat
- Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria
Engelsk Hardback
They Eat Our Sweat
- Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria
Engelsk Hardback

1.019 kr
Tilføj til kurv
Sikker betaling
6 - 8 hverdage

Om denne bog
Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) corruption from political (grand) corruption. In contrast to this tendency, They Eat Our Sweat offers a fresh and engaging look at the corruption complex in Africa through a micro analysis of its informal transport sector, where collusion between state and nonstate actors is most rife. Focusing on Lagos, Nigeria''s commercial capital and Africa''s largest city, Daniel Agbiboa investigates the workaday world of road transport operators as refracted through the extortion racket and violence of transport unions acting in complicity with the state. Steeped in an embodied knowledge of Lagos and backed by two years of thorough ethnographic fieldwork, including working as an informal bus conductor, Agbiboa provides an emic perspective on precarious labour, popular agency and the daily pursuit of survival under the shadow of the modern world system. Corruption, Agbiboa argues, is not rooted in Nigerian culture but is shaped by the struggle to get by and get ahead on the fast and slow lanes of Lagos. The pursuit of economic survival compels transport operators to participate in the reproduction of the very transgressive system they denounce. They Eat Our Sweat is not just a book about corruption but also about transportation, politics, and governance in urban Africa.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
280
ISBN-13:
9780198861546
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0198861540
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
2 feb 2022
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
241mm
Højde:
163mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
2 feb 2022
Forfatter(e):
Ofte købt sammen
Minder om
Kategori sammenhænge