Malve Jacobsen

Assembling Bus Rapid Transit in the Global South

Translating Global Models, Materialising Infrastructure Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the mobile ethnography of Dar es Salaam, where consultants and politicians have planned and implemented a bus rapid transit (BRT) system for two decades. It analyses the dual processes of assembling BRT in the Tanzanian metropolis and establishing BRT as a policy model of and for the Global South.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780367894771
• ISBN-10: 0367894777
• Artikelnr.: 60000945

Autorenporträt

Malve Jacobsen is a geographer specialising in urban and transport studies, Science and Technology Studies, and the relationships between Global South and North. She pursued BA and MA at Humboldt University Berlin and PhD at Goethe University Frankfurt, and currently holds a postdoc position at the University of Bonn.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introducing Bus Rapid Transit 2. Gathering DART 3. Fluid Formations 4.
Creating the Model of the Global South 5. Effective Operational
Controversies 6. Permanent Interim Assemblages 7. To Conclude: Assembling
BRT in the Global South