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- Title
Inside the System, Outside the Law: Operating the Matatu Sector in Nairobi.
- Authors
Rasmussen, Jacob
- Abstract
This paper investigates the politics of public transportation in Nairobi by looking at the matatu sector. Focusing on the illegal Mungiki movement's control of matatu routes, the paper provides an understanding of how the relationship between the state and the non-state plays out on the ground. The paper argues that the gaps in the state's provision of services not only open up space for non-state interventions, but also invite mediation and brokerage between formal procedures and practical informal arrangements. It is argued that we can understand the ability to connect people and areas in the city-and how this helps make the city work-by looking at how everyday operations and practices constantly transgress notions of the formal and informal. This is best captured in the emic characterisation of the matatu sector as being inside the system, but outside the law.
- Subjects
NAIROBI (Kenya); KENYA; TRANSPORTATION; DISPUTE resolution; PERSONS
- Publication
Urban Forum, 2012, Vol 23, Issue 4, p415
- ISSN
1015-3802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12132-012-9171-z