Jennifer Hart 
Ghana on the Go [EPUB ebook] 
African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation

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As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse array of local agents, including chiefs, farmers, traders, fishermen, and urban workers. Jennifer Hart’s powerful narrative of auto-mobility shows how drivers built on old trade routes to increase the speed and scale of motorized travel. Hart reveals that new forms of labor migration, economic enterprise, cultural production, and social practice were defined by autonomy and mobility and thus shaped the practices and values that formed the foundations of Ghanaian society today. Focusing on the everyday lives of individuals who participated in this century of social, cultural, and technological change, Hart comes to a more sensitive understanding of the ways in which these individuals made new technology meaningful to their local communities and associated it with their future aspirations.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Auto/Mobile Lives
1. ‘All Shall Pass’: Indigenous Entrepreneurs, Colonial Technopolitics, and the Roots of African Automobility, 1901-1939
2. ‘Honest Labor’: Public Safety, Private Profit, and the Professionalization of Drivers, 1930-1945
3. ‘Modern Men’: Motor Transportation and the Politics of Respectability, 1930s-1960s
4. ‘One Man, No Chop’: Licit Wealth, Good Citizens, and the Criminalization of Drivers in Postcolonial Ghana
5. ‘Sweet Not Always’: Automobility, State Power, and the Politics of Development, 1980s-1990s
Epilogue. ‘No Rest for the Trotro Driver’: Ambivalence and Automobility in 21st Century Ghana
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Circa l’autore

Jennifer Hart is an Assistant Professor of African History at Wayne State University.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 264 ● ISBN 9780253023254 ● Dimensione 3.5 MB ● Casa editrice Indiana University Press ● Città Bloomington ● Paese US ● Pubblicato 2016 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 5454502 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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