Daniel Mains

Under Construction

Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia

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Produktbeschreibung

Daniel Mains explores the intersection of infrastructural development and governance in contemporary Ethiopia by examining the conflicts surrounding the construction of specific infrastructural technologies and how that construction impacts the daily lives of Ethiopians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9781478006411
• ISBN-10: 1478006412
• Artikelnr.: 54472027

Autorenporträt

Daniel Mains

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Foundations for Development: Infrastructure, the State, and
Construction  1
1. Constructing a Renaissance: Hydropower and the Temporal Politics of
Development  29
2. Asphalt Roads, Regulating Infrastructures, and Improvised Lives  58
3. Feeling Change through Dirt and Water: The Affective Politics of Urban
Development of Jimma, 2009–2015  92
4. Governing the Bajaj: States, Markets, and Multiple Materialisms  121
5. What Can a Stone Do? Cobblestone Roads, Governance, and Labor  151
Conclusion. The Time of Construction  181
Notes  193
References  203
Index  217