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Title The governance of daily life in Africa : ethnographic explorations of public and collective services / [edited] by Giorgio Blundo and Pierre-Yves Le Meur
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 347 pages) : map
Series African social studies series, 1568-1203 ; v. 19
African social studies series ; v. 19.
Contents Introduction : An anthropology of everyday governance : collective service delivery and subject-making / Giorgio Blundo and Pierre-Yves Le Meur -- State bureaucracy and governance in Francophone West Africa : an empirical diagnosis and historical perspective / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan -- 'Bad governance' and the persistence of alternative political arenas : a study of a Tanzanian region / Felicitas Becker -- How can the local level exist? The case of the decentralisation of the health system in Cameroon / Marc-Éric Gruénais, Raphaël Okalla, Eric Gauvrit -- Like chameleons : civil servants and corruption in Malawi / Gerhard Anders -- Urban dwellers, politicians and dirt : an anthropology of everyday governance in Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) / Jacky Bouju -- Ma-slaan-pa dockets : negotiations at the boundary between the private and the public / Julia C. Hornberger -- Liquid waste management in urban and rural Ghana : privatisation as governance? / Sjaak van der Geest and Nelson Obirih-Opareh -- Reclaiming politics in the bureaucratic space of a Burundian refugee camp in Tanzania / Simon Turner -- The politics of transferring and managing land in the 'new' South Africa / Wiebe Nauta -- Humanitarian governance : assisting Mauritanian refugees in Senegal / Marion Fresia -- The daily governance of environmental health : gender perspectives from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania / Brigit Obrist van Eeuwijk -- Public goods and the management of collective infrastructure : the case of the drinking-water supply systems in the Maradi Region of Niger / Mahaman Tidjani Alou
Summary Explores the notion of governance in a non-normative way. This work describes and analyses the institutional and political processes through which social actors and groups - be they state, private or 'third-sector' - contribute to the provision of public and collective goods or services
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Local government -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Public-private sector cooperation -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Local government -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Case studies
Public-private sector cooperation -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Case studies
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Local.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- State & Provincial.
Local government
Public-private sector cooperation
Politisches System
Staatsbürokratie
Good Governance
Korruption
Nichtstaatliche Organisation
Abfallwirtschaft
Wasserwirtschaft
Öffentliche Dienstleistung
Governance
Gemeinschaftseigentum
Kommunalpolitik.
Public Private Partnership.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Burkina Faso
Ghana
Kamerun
Malawi
Niger
Senegal
Tansania
Südafrika
Afrika
Afrika.
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Blundo, Giorgio.
Le Meur, Pierre-Yves, 1962-
ISBN 9789047424598
904742459X
9789004171282
9004171282
1282400304
9781282400306
9786612400308
6612400307