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Motorbike People: Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets

Will Rollason

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Description:This book asks what power might be in other cultural contexts. What would social scientists gain -- and what would they lose - by abandoning the assumption that power is a universal feature of human social life? It poses these questions through an ethnographic account of the lives and livelihoods of motorcycle taxi drivers in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Tracing out the relationships that form Ikimotari, the motorcycle taxi business, in Kigali, the author shows that conventional accounts of power and resistance sit uneasily with the forms of personhood that inhabit this social context. From motorcyclists' everyday dealings with the police and one another to the regulation of the sector at large, and the constitution of the Rwandan state, Ikimotari makes a case that other forms of personhood demand varied concepts of power. It argues that by allowing concepts of power to proliferate, social science the political capacity to engage in questions of justice or make common cause with the oppressed, but gains the ability to rethink the political and meet the challenges of a swiftly changing world.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Motorbike People: Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets. To get started finding Motorbike People: Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book asks what power might be in other cultural contexts. What would social scientists gain -- and what would they lose - by abandoning the assumption that power is a universal feature of human social life? It poses these questions through an ethnographic account of the lives and livelihoods of motorcycle taxi drivers in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Tracing out the relationships that form Ikimotari, the motorcycle taxi business, in Kigali, the author shows that conventional accounts of power and resistance sit uneasily with the forms of personhood that inhabit this social context. From motorcyclists' everyday dealings with the police and one another to the regulation of the sector at large, and the constitution of the Rwandan state, Ikimotari makes a case that other forms of personhood demand varied concepts of power. It argues that by allowing concepts of power to proliferate, social science the political capacity to engage in questions of justice or make common cause with the oppressed, but gains the ability to rethink the political and meet the challenges of a swiftly changing world.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Motorbike People: Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets. To get started finding Motorbike People: Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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