Matteo Rizzo (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Department of Devel

Broschiertes Buch

Taken for a Ride

Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis

Beschreibung

The growth of cities, and informal economies within them, are two central manifestations of globalization in the developing world. This book contributes to our understanding of both, through a study of public transport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city, from 1970 to 2015.

Autor

Matteo Rizzo is a political economist who lives and works in London, where he is a senior lecturer across the Departments of Economics and Development Studies at SOAS, University of London, UK. He previously worked at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford and at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge. His work has been published by leading African studies and development studies journals, including the Journal of Development Studies, Development and Change, the Journal of Agrarian Change, African Affairs, the Journal of Modern African Studies and the Review of African Political Economy, of which he is also a member of the Editorial Working Group.

Produktdetails

• Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780198839057
• ISBN-10: 0198839057
• Artikelnr.: 54599392