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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
February 2025
Print publication year:
2025
Online ISBN:
9781009486651
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009486651
Creative Commons:
Creative Common License - CC Creative Common License - BY Creative Common License - NC
This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses
Series:
The International African Library (72)
Subjects:
Area Studies, African Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Politics and International Relations, Anthropology: General Interest, Anthropology, African Government, Politics and Policy
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Bus stations are among the most prominent sites of social and economic activity in Africa. Integral to transport, trade, and exchange over distance, they provide livelihoods for large numbers of people. Through a detailed ethnography of one of Ghana's busiest long-distance bus stations, Michael Stasik explores the dialectical relationship between the ways in which people make the station work and how the station shapes popular economic engagement and social life. Drawing on a dual understanding of 'hustle' as a distinct mode of economic activity and organisation, as well as a marker of complex and sometimes bewildering situations, Stasik challenges dominant views of transport work in urban Africa, especially those wedded to generic notions of 'informality'. Bus Station Hustle offers a nuanced anthropological perspective on the hands-on work in and the institutional workings of an infrastructural hub of mobility and exchange. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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  • Bus Station Hustle
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  • The International African Library - Series page
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  • Bus Station Hustle - Title page
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  • Transport Work in Urban Ghana
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  • Copyright page
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  • Contents
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  • Figures
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  • Maps
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  • Acknowledgements
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  • maps
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  • 1 - Introduction
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  • In the Hustle Park
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  • 2 - From the Lorry Age to the Age of Hustle
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  • 3 - Niche Economy Involution
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  • 4 - Loading
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  • 5 - Station Rhythm Enskilment
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  • 6 - The Labours of Waiting
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  • 7 - The Valorisation of Delay
    pp 141-161
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  • 8 - Conclusion
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  • The Hustle Reloading
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  • Appendices
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  • Appendix A - Accra Lorry Park Bye-Laws, 1929
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  • Appendix B - Achimota Transport Terminal Rules and Regulations for Transport Operators, 2009
    pp 183-184
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  • References
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  • Index
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  • Series page - Series page
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