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Bus Station Hustle

Transport Work in Urban Ghana

Michael Stasik author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Publishing:31st Jan '25

£90.00

This title is due to be published on 31st January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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Provides a nuanced anthropological perspective of the infrastructural work and institutional workings of a West African bus station.

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.Bus 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.

ISBN: 9781009486620

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236 pages