The everyday state in Africa: governance practices and state ideas in Ethiopia

"This book reconceptualises the idea of the state in Ethiopia. It focuses on the cultural and political processes of state formation, and reveals the complexity of state-society relations as they unfold in the everyday context of local life. It does so by exploring specific configurations of go...

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Main Author: Mulugeta, Daniel (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020
Series:African governance 18
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Summary:"This book reconceptualises the idea of the state in Ethiopia. It focuses on the cultural and political processes of state formation, and reveals the complexity of state-society relations as they unfold in the everyday context of local life. It does so by exploring specific configurations of governance practices, development activities and discourses, and bureaucratic representations that are rooted in the ongoing contingencies of power relations and social contexts. The book places the lives, subjectivities, and experiences of farmers, pastoralists, women, traders, shopkeepers, daily labourers, the rural youth, state functionaries, and NGO workers in two rural localities in different regions of Ethiopia at the centre of ethnographic enquiry."
Physical Description:200 Seiten
ISBN:9780367193805
9781032174921

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