A Blue Print or a Mirage - Woldegiorgis, Birhanu
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This ethnographic research explores the institutional engagement between farmers and government, as well as the discourse about the development process in Ethiopia. It shows how the public's opinion is altered by the government and national media in terms of the discourses on development, economic growth and farmers' changing lives. The discourses portray an unrealistic view of real, existing practices and engagements among the farmers and the agricultural bureau. Development knowledge and discourses are reworked, reformulated and multiplied to serve the purpose of the government in power within the nation.…mehr

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This ethnographic research explores the institutional engagement between farmers and government, as well as the discourse about the development process in Ethiopia. It shows how the public's opinion is altered by the government and national media in terms of the discourses on development, economic growth and farmers' changing lives. The discourses portray an unrealistic view of real, existing practices and engagements among the farmers and the agricultural bureau. Development knowledge and discourses are reworked, reformulated and multiplied to serve the purpose of the government in power within the nation.
Autorenporträt
Birhanu Desta Woldegiorgis holds a MA degree in Cultural Anthropology from Uppsala University. He has done his BA in History and a Master in Social Anthropology at Addis Ababa University. He has worked as a HIV/AIDS project coordinator and was a teacher at Samara University in Ethiopia. He also published a paper with the Nordic African Institute.