Ghana on the Go

African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Av Jennifer Hart

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As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse array of local agents, including chiefs, farmers, traders, fishermen, and urban workers. Jennifer Hart's powerful narrative of auto-mobility shows how drivers built on old trade routes to increase the speed and scale of motorized travel. Hart reveals that new forms of labor migration, economic enterprise, cultural production, and social practice were defined by autonomy and mobility and thus shaped the practices and values that formed the foundations of Ghanaian society today. Focusing on the everyday lives of individuals who participated in this century of social, cultural, and technological change, Hart comes to a more sensitive understanding of the ways in which these individuals made new technology meaningful to their local communities and associated it with their future aspirations.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-10-03
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt345 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieIndiana University Press (IPS)
Antal sidor264
FörlagIndiana University Press
ISBN9780253023070

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Auto/Mobile Lives1. "All Shall Pass": Indigenous Entrepreneurs, Colonial Technopolitics, and the Roots of African Automobility, 1901-19392. "Honest Labor": Public Safety, Private Profit, and the Professionalization of Drivers, 1930-19453. "Modern Men": Motor Transportation and the Politics of Respectability, 1930s-1960s4. "One Man, No Chop": Licit Wealth, Good Citizens, and the Criminalization of Drivers in Postcolonial Ghana5. "Sweet Not Always": Automobility, State Power, and the Politics of Development, 1980s-1990sEpilogue. "No Rest for the Trotro Driver": Ambivalence and Automobility in 21st Century GhanaNotesBibliographyIndex

This well-written book deeply engages with the dynamics of African mobility and constitutes a major contribution to twentieth-century Ghanaian history.(International Journal of African Historical Studies) Jennifer Hart's text sweeps triumphantly across a century of authomobility in colonial and post-colonial Ghana. . . sophisticated, clear and inspiring account. . .(Journal of Transport History) There is much here for readers across a wide range of disciplines to learn and enjoy.(Africa) Hart has given us a sensitively aware and richly documented account of (auto)mobility in Ghana.(American Historical Review)