Informal Public Transport in Practice: Matatu Entrepreneurship - Rilegato

Nafukho, Fredrick Muyia; Khayesi, Meleckidzedeck

 
9781409446927: Informal Public Transport in Practice: Matatu Entrepreneurship
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ISBN 10: 1409446921 ISBN 13: 9781409446927
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2015

Sinossi

Transport discourse often concentrates on what is missing from transport policy and practice in developing countries vis-à-vis high-income countries rather than articulating local creativity in responding to transport needs as revealed in informal public transport modes such as matatu, motorcycle, bicycle and animal transport. This book helps to correct some of the tendency of inadequate contextualization of knowledge, technology and practice learning and transfer from one setting to another in transport and other development programmes. While countries such as Kenya have ambitions to develop their transport systems to fit into the globalized transport system, they also need to plan transport for ordinary life in both urban and rural areas. The matatu service, provided by privately-owned transport carriers, can be seen as a mirror of the life of Kenya, revealing how indigenous African entrepreneurship and capitalism straddles various economic, political and social systems. This book offers a phenomenological and situated analysis of the matatu entrepreneurship in the political economy of Kenya and its embeddedness in society. By adopting a social science approach, this book highlights a number of political, social and practical issues to demonstrate the matatu is not a decontextualized, disembodied and lifeless piece of moving metal carrying people and goods but rather part of a self-organizing industry, with its own logic of practice. This book is dedicated to Ajanga Khayesi.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Meleckidzedeck Khayesi, Transport Researcher, Geneva, Switzerland, Fredrick Muyia Nafukho, Texas A&M University, USA and Joyce Kemuma, Högskolan Dalama University, Sweden.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2015
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1409446921
ISBN 13 
9781409446927
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
168
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ISBN 10:  1138547360 ISBN 13:  9781138547360
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2018
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