Binding: Paperback
Description: In Bottleneck anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks as an entry point to a wide - ranging study of the concept 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 for doing 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 annually attempt often 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 the constraints and hopes of its urban citizens and a means of theorizing mobility and its impossibilities far beyond the African continent.
Title: Bottleneck Moving Building And Belonging In An African City
Author(s): Melly Caroline
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226488905
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 10/17/2017
Category: Archaeology