Taken For A Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis (Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (690 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 019879424X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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* Bill Freund, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa * . Rizzo's skilful fieldwork and his very intelligentand hard-hitting - critique of market fundamentalist and postcolonial approaches to the African city and to the informal economy are a breath of fresh air. Rizzo provides a deep and detailed account of the impacts of neoliberal transport policy, including BRT, on labour. * Alana Dave, International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), Head of Our Public Transport Programme * In this theoretically clear and absorbing monograph, Matteo Rizzo makes sense of the often hidden, neglected but still critical relationship of transport w
A longitudinal study of workers throws light on patterns of occupational mobility in the sector, and the political and economic interests that shaped the introduction of Bus Rapid Transit in Dar es Salaam, and local resistance to it are analysed.Taken for a Ride reveals the political economy of public transport, exposing the limitations of market fundamentalist and post-colonial scholarship on economic informality, the urban experience in developing countries, and the failure to locate the agency of the urban poor within their economic and political structures. T
He previously worked at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford and at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge. His work has been published by leading African studies and development studies journals, including the Journal of Development Studies, Development and Change, the Journal of Agrarian Change, African Affairs, the Journal of Modern African Studies and the Review ofAfrican