Assembling Bus Rapid Transit in the Global South: Translating Global Models, Materialising Infrastructure Politics

This book explores the mobile ethnography of Dar es Salaam, where consultants and politicians have planned and implemented a bus rapid transit (BRT) system for two decades. It analyses the dual processes of assembling BRT in the Tanzanian metropolis and establishing BRT as a policy model of and for the Global South.

The book elucidates how policy models are constructed and circulated around the globe and depicts the processes by which they are translated between, and materialise within, spec...