The Governance of Daily Life in Africa

Ethnographic Explorations of Public and Collective Services
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-17128-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: African Social Studies Series

Anchored in an empirically-grounded anthropology, this book explores the notion of governance in a non-normative way. It describes and analyses the institutional and political processes through which social actors and groups - be they state, private or 'third-sector' - contribute to the provision of public and collective goods or services. The book draws on case studies from Anglophone and Francophone Africa, crossing anthropological traditions that have too often evolved in parallel directions and dealing with a range of topics such as health, water supply, sanitation and waste management, security, humanitarian aid, land issues and decentralisation. Beyond African boundaries, it contributes to current debates about governmentality, public policy, subject making, public/private boundaries, and the role of the state.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blundo, Giorgio

Le Meur, Pierre-Yves

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landesverwaltung

Über Autor(innen)

Giorgio Blundo, PhD (1998) in Anthropology and Sociology, University of Lausanne, is Associate Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). He has published extensively on local politics, bureaucracies, decentralisation and corruption in West Africa, including Everyday Corruption and The State. Citizens and Public Officials in Africa. (with J.P. Olivier de Sardan, Zed Books, 2006). Pierre-Yves Le Meur, PhD (1992), Anthropologist, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Development Research (IRD), has published extensively on politics, development and land tenure in West Africa including Gouverner les hommes et les ressources (with Jacob & Chauveau, 2004).