Monique Bertrand
From Bamako to Accra. Urban mobility and local roots in West Africa
From Bamako to Accra. Urban mobility and local roots in West Africa
Paris, Karthala, 2011. 384 pages, 16 x 24 cm, softcover. - 9782811104696
The book provides a setback of more than two decades on the urban transition, territorial and social, at work in Bamako and Accra. It s organized by both the bottom than at the top of Malian and Ghanaian companies, articulating games great actors and practices regular access to housing and inclusion in local political spaces.
The logic of donor projects and the mobilization of savings international migration exert their influences. But they deal with the legacies that distinguish the secular urban experiences of Francophone and Anglophone Africa, coastal and inland.
Such challenges require a precise approach to the effects of locations and internal composition of cities. This book leads the advocacy by illustrating their heterogeneity and conflicts among them intimate. It offers a way of interpreting movements increased residential and land and territorial attachments more than ever selective, but also decisive for the renewal of living together. The effort of contextualization that is conducted within their comparison cities used in West Africa. It highlights the limitations and risks of political instrumentalization of which is the subject category "local", when the urban communities are enjoined to mobilize against poverty or participate in features of good governance.
The metropolitan perspective shows then issues a report to the city both more fluid and fragmented. The movement of one it has in relation to the stability or other assignment. To build on this social space, it is important to recognize that the power of mobility and anchoring is constitutive of modernity in African capitals and compromises incurred with their past.
Geographer, Monique Bertrand research presented here that it has completed the University of Caen and in the urban reorganization and Mobility Unit, Institute of Development Research. She is now director of research at IRD, and pursue the trajectory analysis of urban issues in developing countries in joint research unit of Development and Society (University of Paris 1 and IRD).
The growing strength of metropolitan mark the West African dramatically.
The book provides a setback of more than two decades on the urban transition, territorial and social, at work in Bamako and Accra. It s organized by both the bottom than at the top of Malian and Ghanaian companies, articulating games great actors and practices regular access to housing and inclusion in local political spaces.
The logic of donor projects and the mobilization of savings international migration exert their influences. But they deal with the legacies that distinguish the secular urban experiences of Francophone and Anglophone Africa, coastal and inland.
Such challenges require a precise approach to the effects of locations and internal composition of cities. This book leads the advocacy by illustrating their heterogeneity and conflicts among them intimate. It offers a way of interpreting movements increased residential and land and territorial attachments more than ever selective, but also decisive for the renewal of living together. The effort of contextualization that is conducted within their comparison cities used in West Africa. It highlights the limitations and risks of political instrumentalization of which is the subject category "local", when the urban communities are enjoined to mobilize against poverty or participate in features of good governance.
The metropolitan perspective shows then issues a report to the city both more fluid and fragmented. The movement of one it has in relation to the stability or other assignment. To build on this social space, it is important to recognize that the power of mobility and anchoring is constitutive of modernity in African capitals and compromises incurred with their past.
Geographer, Monique Bertrand research presented here that it has completed the University of Caen and in the urban reorganization and Mobility Unit, Institute of Development Research. She is now director of research at IRD, and pursue the trajectory analysis of urban issues in developing countries in joint research unit of Development and Society (University of Paris 1 and IRD).
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