The Governance of Daily Life in Africa : Ethnographic Explorations of Public and Collective Services

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African Social Studies Ser. ; v.No. 19

African social studies series ; v. 19

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Contents ; List of Illustrations; Preface; 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); Contributors; Index

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