They Eat Our Sweat - Daniel E. Agbiboa

They Eat Our Sweat

Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria
Buch | Hardcover
280 Seiten
2022
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-886154-6 (ISBN)
119,95 inkl. MwSt
They Eat Our Sweat examines the corruption complex in Africa in the context of transportion. Focusing on Lagos, Nigeria, Agbiboa shows that corruption is driven by the imperatives of urban economic competition.
Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) corruption from political (grand) corruption. In contrast to this tendency, They Eat Our Sweat offers a fresh and engaging look at the corruption complex in Africa through a micro analysis of its informal transport sector, where collusion between state and nonstate actors is most rife. Focusing on Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital and Africa's largest city, Daniel Agbiboa investigates the workaday world of road transport operators as refracted through the extortion racket and violence of transport unions acting in complicity with the state. Steeped in an embodied knowledge of Lagos and backed by two years of thorough ethnographic fieldwork, including working as an informal bus conductor, Agbiboa provides an emic perspective on precarious labour, popular agency and the daily pursuit of survival under the shadow of the modern world system. Corruption, Agbiboa argues, is not rooted in Nigerian culture but is shaped by the struggle to get by and get ahead on the fast and slow lanes of Lagos. The pursuit of economic survival compels transport operators to participate in the reproduction of the very transgressive system they denounce. They Eat Our Sweat is not just a book about corruption but also about transportation, politics, and governance in urban Africa.

Daniel E. Agbiboa is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He earned a PhD in International Development from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the relationships between state and nonstate actors in contemporary Africa. He is the recipient of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Award, and is a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His books include Transport, Transgression and Politics in African Cities: The Rhythm of Chaos (Routledge, 2018), and People, Predicaments and Potentials in Africa (Langaa RPCIG, 2021). He has authored articles in leading journals such as Public Culture, Current History, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, African Studies Review, African Affairs, and Journal of Modern African Studies.

Introduction: Rethinking Corruption
1. Corruption and the Crisis of Values
2. The Language of Corruption
3. The Politics of Informal Transport
4. The Art of Urban Survival
5. Nigeria's Transport Mafia
6. The Paradox of Urban Reform
Conclusion: Learning from Corruption

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies
Zusatzinfo 16 black-and-white illustrations
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 240 mm
Gewicht 580 g
Themenwelt Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Makroökonomie
ISBN-10 0-19-886154-0 / 0198861540
ISBN-13 978-0-19-886154-6 / 9780198861546
Zustand Neuware
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