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SUMMARY:Book launch 'Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism\, Precariou
 s Labour\, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis'  - Dr Matteo Riz
 zo\, SOAS
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CONTACT:Victoria Jones
DESCRIPTION:The growth of cities and their informal economies are key char
 acteristic of societies in Africa today. Taken for a Ride contributes to o
 ur understanding of both\, drawing on long-term fieldwork in Dar es Salaam
  (Tanzania) and charting its public transport system’s journey from publ
 ic to private provision. This new addition to the Oxford University Press 
 series “Critical Frontiers of Theory\, Research\, and Policy in Internat
 ional Development Studies”\, investigates this shift alongside the incre
 asing deregulation of the sector and the resulting chaotic modality of pub
 lic transport. How does public transport work in an African city under neo
 liberalism? Who has the power to influence its changing shape over time? W
 hat does it mean to be a precarious and informal worker in the private min
 ibuses that provide such transport in Dar es Salaam? What are the possibil
 ities for theorising about the urban and economic informality from the str
 eets of Dar es Salaam? These are the main questions that inform this in-de
 pth case study of Dar es Salaam’s public transport system over more than
  forty years.\n\n Taken for a Ride is an interdisciplinary political econo
 my of public transport\, exposing the limitations of market fundamentalist
  and postcolonial approaches to the study of economic informality\, the ur
 ban experience in developing countries\, and their failure to locate the a
 gency of the urban poor within their economic and political structures. It
  is both a contribution to and a call for the contextualized study of neol
 iberalism.\n\n Matteo Rizzo is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at
  SOAS\, University of London. Matteo has degrees in Political Sciences fro
 m "L'Orientale" (Naples\, Italy) and Development Studies and History from 
 SOAS (MSc and PhD)\, where he also completed an ESRC postdoctoral fellowsh
 ip. Matteo has taught at the LSE\, at the African Studies Centre in Oxford
  and in Cambridge\, where he was a Smuts Research Fellow in African Studie
 s at the Centre of African Studies. Matteo is a member of the Editorial Wo
 rking Group of the Review of African Political Economy and works on public
  transport for the International Transport Workers Federation.
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 9DT
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