Taken for a ride

An in-depth study of public transport in an African city written as an entry point for critically engaging with key thinkers on the city and the informal economy; Uses extensive fieldwork carried out over a fifteen year timespan to inform a truly interdisciplinary case study that is empirically grounded in a range of wider issues; Theoretically engaged, with extensive discussion of neoliberalism, labour, urbanisation and public transport, and postcolonial theory; Condenses complex ideas into an accessible narrative