Taken For A Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
: B - 22B Development Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies : B - 22B Development Studies
- Output identifier
- 24320
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198794240
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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https://global.oup.com/academic/product/taken-for-a-ride-9780198794240?cc=gb&lang=en&
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Taken for a ride articulates a complex and interdisciplinary argument that challenges influential arguments celebrating the agency of the poor in the study of the informal economy and of cities in developing countries. Central to the book’s argument is the lengthy and long-term period of primary data collection in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, carried out from 1998 to 2014, for a total of 14 months of fieldwork. This involved a multi-layered process of mixed-method investigation, including a survey of informal transport workers, interviews and focus groups with them, and the longitudinal study of the occupational trajectories of 120 workers.
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- Non-English
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