From Peripatetic Anthropology to the Ethnography of Roads and Motorisation in Africa

Horta, Gerard

doi:10.4000/cea.4118

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Year Published

2021

2024

Publication Types

Select...

Article3

Book1

Relationship

Self Cite0

Independent4

Authors

Journals

Cited by 4 publications

References 61 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

The Role of Ethnoeconomics in Promoting Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns: A Pathway to Environmental Protection and Economic Prosperity

Mishra

2024

Sustainable Development Seen Through the Lenses of Ethnoeconomics and the Circular Economy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Role of Ethnoeconomics in Promoting Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns: A Pathway to Environmental Protection and Economic Prosperity

Mishra

2024

Sustainable Development Seen Through the Lenses of Ethnoeconomics and the Circular Economy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Connections amidst disconnections: Transport routes and the Naga conflict in South Asia

Medom

2024

The Journal of Transport History

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Countless conflicts characterise the road-scape of Nagaland, a frontier border state in the Northeastern region of India. In such a milieu, transport routes in the form of roads transcend the technical imperative of mobility of people, goods, and services and become vehicles of hope, regulation and control. Keeping this duality of roads in mind, this article, through archival research and ethnohistoric accounts, explores how roads in this region became objects of dominance and their surfaces a potential space for conflicts and mitigating conflicts. It traces how roadways viewed as pathways to “civilisation” during the British colonial era (nineteenth century) came to define the state's conception of “appropriate” mobility and movements. The article contends that infrastructures built to connect people can augment a divide between “us” and “them” and signal newer forms of disconnect within the state-defined logic of connections.

show abstract

Mbenzi, czyli bogacz z mercedesem. Wpływ motoryzacji na przemiany społeczno-kulturowe Afryki

Popławski

2023

Przegląd Humanistyczny

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The article aims to present selected aspects of the transformation of the automotive market in Africa, especially in the sub-Saharan part of the continent. In the introduction, the sui generis fetishization of the concept of technicization is described. Then, the impact of the automotive revolution on the lifestyle of African people during the period of decolonization is discussed, as well as the impact of related phenomena on the sphere of cultural and political practices. Next, the negative – in ecological and civilizational terms – effects of the development of the automotive industry and the widespread practice of importing used cars from the global North to Africa are presented. Finally, the evolution of the system of production and sale of cars on the continent in the 21st century is outlined – on the one hand, it reproduces the logic of the colonial trade, while on the other hand, it provides an opportunity for GDP growth, unemployment reduction, and socio-economic advancement of millions of Africans.

show abstract

From Peripatetic Anthropology to the Ethnography of Roads and Motorisation in Africa

Abstract: Esta publicação é financiada por fundos nacionais através da FCT-Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia no âmbito do UID/CPO/03122/2013

Cited by 4 publications

References 61 publications

The Role of Ethnoeconomics in Promoting Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns: A Pathway to Environmental Protection and Economic Prosperity

The Role of Ethnoeconomics in Promoting Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns: A Pathway to Environmental Protection and Economic Prosperity

Connections amidst disconnections: Transport routes and the Naga conflict in South Asia

Mbenzi, czyli bogacz z mercedesem. Wpływ motoryzacji na przemiany społeczno-kulturowe Afryki

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About