The Governance of Daily Life in Africa
Ethnographic Explorations of Public and Collective Services
Biographical note
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).
Readership
The potential audience for this book are anthropologists, social and political scientists, development practitioners and decision-makers, post-graduate students in the fields of social and political sciences, African and development studies.
Reviews
Review in: African Studies Review Vol. 53, no. 1.
‘Resulting from a conference held in Leiden in 2002, this book presents a collection of thirteen contributions on the provision of public and collective services in Africa. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, these deal with topics as diverse as politics in refugee camps in Senegal, waste management in Ghana, drinking-water supply in Niger, and health services in Tanzania…. The aim of the book is to study how public and collective services are delivered in Africa. For all social scientists interested in this new field of research, it is definitely essential reading’.
‘Resulting from a conference held in Leiden in 2002, this book presents a collection of thirteen contributions on the provision of public and collective services in Africa. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, these deal with topics as diverse as politics in refugee camps in Senegal, waste management in Ghana, drinking-water supply in Niger, and health services in Tanzania…. The aim of the book is to study how public and collective services are delivered in Africa. For all social scientists interested in this new field of research, it is definitely essential reading’.
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