The Everyday State in Africa: Governance Practices and State Ideas in Ethiopia

ISBN-13: 9780367193805 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 190 str.

Daniel Mulugeta Gebrie

Opis

This book offers a new understanding of the workings of the everyday Ethiopian state through analysis of the everyday politics of state-society relations.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Contested Conceptualisations of Ethiopian Statehood  3. The Performative and Affective Impulses of Bureaucratic State Power  4. Boundary-making: The Construction of State-Society Distinction  5. Corruption Discourses, Moral Idioms, and the Ideals of Mengist  6. Demystifying the State: Boundary Crossing  7. State-territorialisation and Sedentarisation in Borana  8. Development, Class, and State Power: Patterns of Stratification  9. Development Talks, Practices, and State Imagination  10. Governance Practices and State Ideas 

O autorze

Daniel Mulugeta is a postdoctoral researcher at SOAS University of London, UK.