Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis

ISBN-13: 9780198839057 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str.

Matteo Rizzo

Recenzje

Matteo Rizzo's Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis is a book on urban transport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and it makes two important scholarly contributions. The first is an intervention into debates about neoliberalism,...The second, more nuanced contribution of the book is the analysis of the past and present of transport work in the urban informal economy. The story Rizzo tells is a powerful and convincing one, in large part due to research methods that are both longitudinal (he carried out research over an extended period between 1998 and 2014) and up close.

O autorze

Matteo Rizzo is a political economist who lives and works in London, where he is a senior lecturer across the Departments of Economics and Development Studies at SOAS, University of London, UK. He previously worked at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford and at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge. His work has been published by leading African studies and development studies journals, including the Journal of Development Studies, Development and Change, the Journal of Agrarian Change, African Affairs, the Journal of Modern African Studies and the Review of African Political Economy, of which he is also a member of the Editorial Working Group.