1st Edition
Assembling Bus Rapid Transit in the Global South Translating Global Models, Materialising Infrastructure Politics
By Malve Jacobsen
Copyright 2021
252 Pages
20 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
252 Pages
20 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
252 Pages
20 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores the mobile ethnography of Dar es Salaam, where consultants and politicians have planned and implemented a bus rapid transit (BRT) system for two decades. It analyses the dual processes of assembling BRT in the Tanzanian metropolis and establishing BRT as a policy model of and for the Global South.
The book elucidates how policy models are constructed and circulated around the... Read more
1. Introducing Bus Rapid Transit 2. Gathering DART 3. Fluid Formations 4. Creating the Model of the Global South 5. Effective Operational Controversies 6. Permanent Interim Assemblages 7. To Conclude: Assembling BRT in the Global South
Biography
Malve Jacobsen is a geographer specialising in urban and transport studies, Science and Technology Studies, and the relationships between Global South and North. She pursued BA and MA at Humboldt University Berlin and PhD at Goethe University Frankfurt, and currently holds a postdoc position at the University of Bonn.
