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Will Rollason, “Motorbike People: Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets” (Lexington Books, 2020) (2020)

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Will Rollason is senior lecturer of anthropology at Brunel University London. He’s written a fascinating book titled Motorbike People: Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets (Lexington Books, 2020). Will’s book is an ethnography of taxi-moto drivers in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital city. Not only is his book a rich account of the everyday lives of motorcylists’ (motari) everyday lives, Will’s research challenge anthropological understanding of the concept of power and its relationship to culture. He argues that the concept of power is too expansive, too all-encompassing to provide explanations of how “power” operates in a given culture. Will finds that there is dearth of understanding in the social sciences, leading to a conceptual inability to engage in questions of justice and make common cause with the oppressed.

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Authors & Contributors
Dent, Rosanna
Alan F. Blackwell
Rollason, Will
Smith, Jessica M.
Jessee, Erin
Corneliussen, Hilde G.
Concepts
Technology and culture
Ethnography
Science and society
Technology and gender
Motorcycles
Mass media
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Rwanda
Kigali
Africa, Sub-Sahara
Andes
Peru
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