Informal urban governance and predatory politics in Africa: The role of motor-park touts in Lagos
Informal urban governance and predatory politics in Africa: The role of motor-park touts in Lagos
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非洲的非正式城市治理和掠夺性政治：拉各斯汽车公园兜售者的作用
DOI：
10.1093/afraf/adx052
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发表时间：
2018
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影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Daniel E. Agbiboa
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作者：
Daniel E. Agbiboa
本文利用在尼日利亚拉各斯的深入实地调查，来解释停车场兜售者（agberos）在城市交通中的角色变化。本文将农民工的出现置于20世纪80年代结构调整计划所造成的不安全和根本不确定性中，并从农民工隐性加入全国道路运输工人联盟的角度解释了农民工的转变，这使得农民工在城市交通中的角色政治化并发生了改变。报告进一步指出，拉各斯州政府1999年后的城市改造项目旨在将拉各斯转变为“世界级”特大城市，这一项目启发了目前消除汽车停车场坏化症的努力。然而，“大政治”（即联盟与国家之间的战略联盟）的内在作用有助于解释在拉各斯废除agberosin的困难。通过关注他们在拉各斯不断变化的角色，本文强调了他们在城市公共交通日常管理中的关键和调解作用，同时阐明了他们普遍牵连的暴力赞助和敲诈勒索的政治。
This article draws on in-depth fieldwork in Lagos, Nigeria, to explain the changing role of motor-park touts (agberos) in urban transport. Situating the emergence ofagberoswithin the insecurity and radical uncertainty caused by the structural adjustment programme of the 1980s, this article explains the transformation ofagberosin the light of their tacit incorporation into the National Union of Road Transport Workers, which politicized and altered their role in urban transport. It further argues that current efforts to rid motor-parks ofagberosis inspired by the post-1999 urban renewal project of the Lagos State Government to transform Lagos into a ‘world class’ megacity. Yet, the embedded role of ‘big politics’ (i.e. the strategic alliance between the union and the state) helps to explain the difficulty of doing away withagberosin Lagos. By focusing on their changing role in Lagos, this article foregrounds the critical and mediating role ofagberosin the day-to-day management of urban public transport, while illuminating the politics of violent patronage and extortion rackets in which they are popularly implicated.