Klandos and Jakartas. Informality and State in Two Mobility Systems in Lower Casamance, Senegal
This article presents and analyses a series of social processes by which both the unregulated shared taxi system — klandos — and the motorbike taxi system — jakartas — operate with-in the dynamics of movement in the historical and natural region of Lower Casamance (Sen-egal). Focusing on Ziguinchor,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red
2021-05-01
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| Series: | Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red |
| Online Access: | https://www.aibr.org/antropologia/netesp/numeros/1602/160209e.pdf |
| Summary: | This article presents and analyses a series of social processes by which both the unregulated shared taxi system — klandos — and the motorbike taxi system — jakartas — operate with-in the dynamics of movement in the historical and natural region of Lower Casamance (Sen-egal). Focusing on Ziguinchor, the principal town, it looks in detail at the rationale behind these processes and opens up a critical discussion on the notion of “informality” as it is applied to urban African contexts. We examine both daily and ambivalent links between an apparent-ly illegal public service and the state which tolerates, and even protects it, relying on it to meet the mobility needs of civil servants, while also subtly exercising control over it. |
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| ISSN: | 1695-9752 1578-9705 |