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Bus Station Hustle : Transport Work in Urban Ghana by Michael Stasik (2025, Hardcover)

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Bus Station Hustle : Transport Work in Urban Ghana, Hardcover by Stasik, Michael, ISBN 1009486624, ISBN-13 9781009486620, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Through a detailed ethnography of one of Ghana's busiest long-distance bus stations, this book offers a nuanced perspective on the work and workings of an infrastructural hub of transport and exchange. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101009486624

ISBN-139781009486620

eBay Product ID (ePID)2337209556

Product Key Features

Book TitleBus Station Hustle : Transport Work in Urban Ghana

Number of Pages236 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2025

TopicGeneral, American Government / General

IllustratorYes

GenreTransportation, Political Science

AuthorMichael Stasik

Book SeriesThe International African Library

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2024-014065

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume NumberSeries Number 72

Dewey Decimal388.473

Table Of Content1. Introduction: in the hustle park; 2. From the lorry age to the age of hustle; 3. Niche economy involution; 4. Loading; 5. Station rhythm enskilment; 6. The labours of waiting; 7. The valorisation of delay; 8. Conclusion: the hustle reloading; Appendix A. Accra lorry park, bye-laws (1929); Appendix B. Achimota transport terminal, rules and regulations (2009); References; Index.

SynopsisBus stations are among the most prominent sites of social and economic activity in Africa. Integral to transport, trade, and exchange over distance, they provide livelihoods for large numbers of people. Through a detailed ethnography of one of Ghana's busiest long-distance bus stations, Michael Stasik explores the dialectical relationship between the ways in which people make the station work and how the station shapes popular economic engagement and social life. Drawing on a dual understanding of 'hustle' as a distinct mode of economic activity and organisation, as well as a marker of complex and sometimes bewildering situations, Stasik challenges dominant views of transport work in urban Africa, especially those wedded to generic notions of 'informality'. Bus Station Hustle offers a nuanced anthropological perspective on the hands-on work in and the institutional workings of an infrastructural hub of mobility and exchange. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core., Through a detailed ethnography of one of Ghana's busiest long-distance bus stations, this book offers a nuanced perspective on the work and workings of an infrastructural hub of transport and exchange. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

LC Classification NumberHE5707.8.A6S73 2024