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UNINA9910727269203321 |
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Mutongi Kenda |
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Titolo |
Matatu : a history of popular transportation in Nairobi / / Kenda Mutongi |
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Chicago, Illinois ; ; London, [England] : , : The University of Chicago Press, , 2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Transportation - Kenya - Nairobi |
Minibuses - Kenya - Nairobi |
Local transit - Kenya - Nairobi |
Urban transportation policy - Kenya - Nairobi |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- PART ONE. Background -- INTRODUCTION. Matatu -- ONE. “The Only Way to Get There Was on Foot” -- PART TWO. Moving People, Building the Nation, 1960–73 -- TWO. “It Is a Difficult System to Beat” -- THREE. “We Are Making a Living by Constitutional Means” -- PART THREE. Deregulation, 1973– 84 -- FOUR. Kenyatta’s Decree, 1973 -- FIVE. “Jump In, Squeeze, Jump Out—Quickly!” -- PART FOUR. Government Regulation, 1984– 88 -- SIX. The Matatu Bill of 1984 -- SEVEN. “Only Those Who Are Afraid Use Force” -- PART FIVE. Organized Crime? 1988–2014 -- EIGHT. KANU Youth Wingers -- NINE. Mungiki: Fighting a Phantom? -- PART SIX. Generation Matatu, Politics, and Popular Culture, 1990– 2014 -- TEN. Music, Politics, and Profit -- ELEVEN. “Pimp” My Ride -- PART SEVEN. Self- Regulation, 2003– 14 -- TWELVE. The Michuki Rules -- CONCLUSION. Making It in Nairobi -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Drive the streets of Nairobi, and you are sure to see many matatus—colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed out with aftermarket |
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detailing. They can be stately black or extravagantly colored, sporting names, slogans, or entire tableaus, with airbrushed portraits of everyone from Kanye West to Barack Obama. In this richly interdisciplinary book, Kenda Mutongi explores the history of the matatu from the 1960s to the present. As Mutongi shows, matatus offer a window onto the socioeconomic and political conditions of late-twentieth-century Africa. In their diversity of idiosyncratic designs, they reflect multiple and divergent aspects of Kenyan life—including, for example, rapid urbanization, organized crime, entrepreneurship, social insecurity, the transition to democracy, and popular culture—at once embodying Kenya’s staggering social problems as well as the bright promises of its future. Offering a shining model of interdisciplinary analysis, Mutongi mixes historical, ethnographic, literary, linguistic, and economic approaches to tell the story of the matatu and explore the entrepreneurial aesthetics of the postcolonial world. |
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UNISA990001103750203316 |
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Autore |
R0VANI, Giuseppe |
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Cento anni / Giuseppe Rovani ; a cura di Silvana Tamiozzo Goldmann |
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Milano, : Biblioteca universale Rizzoli, [2001] |
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2 v. (1358 p. compless.) ; 18 cm |
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VI.3.A. 1715/1(V A 1343/1) |
VI.3.A. 1715/2(V A 1343/2) |
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UNINA9910786269103321 |
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Autore |
Derori Zeʼev |
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The Israel Defence Force and the foundation of Israel / / Zeev Derori |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2004 |
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0-203-64621-5 |
9786610150724 |
1-135-75398-9 |
0-7146-8552-6 |
1-280-15072-6 |
1-135-75399-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Civil-military relations - Israel |
Immigrants - Education - Israel |
Immigrants - Israel - Social conditions |
Israel Armed Forces Civic action |
Israel Emigration and immigration Social aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. David Ben-Gurion's Position and Influence in Shaping the State; 2. The Israel Defence Force and Settlement; 3. The Nahal; 4. Army Assistance for Transit Camp Residents; 5. IDF Activity in Education and Culture; 6. The Gadna - Its Activities and Educational Role; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
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This book discusses the contribution of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to the building of the social and educational foundations of the country, and its role in the area of immigrant absorption and settlement during the first years of the Israeli State. The author examines how under the guidance of David Ben-Gurion Israel was able to utilize the values of military organization to combat severe, |
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economic, and social difficulties, and build a civil society to underpin the new state. |
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