Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development (eBook, ePUB)

Eritrea in the Twenty-First Century
Redaktion: O'Kane, David; Hepner, Tricia Redeker

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together original, contemporary ethnographic research on the Northeast African state of Eritrea, this book shows how biopolitics - the state-led deployment of disciplinary technologies on individuals and population groups - is assuming particular forms in the twenty-first century. Once hailed as the "African country that works," Eritrea's apparently successful post-independence development has since lapsed into economic crisis and severe human rights violations. This is due not only to the border war with Ethiopia that began in 1998, but is also the result of discernible tendencies in the "high modernist" style of social mobilization for development first adopted by the Eritrean government during the liberation struggle (1961-1991) and later carried into the post-independence era. The contributions to this volume reveal and interpret the links between development and developmentalist ideologies, intensifying militarism, and the controlling and disciplining of human lives and bodies by state institutions, policies, and discourses. Also assessed are the multiple consequences of these policies for the Eritrean people and the ways in which such policies are resisted or subverted. This insightful, comparative volume places the Eritrean case in a broader global and transnational context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781845458980
• Artikelnr.: 39604364

Autorenporträt

David O'Kane is a graduate of the National University of Ireland and Queen's University Belfast. He has worked in universities in Eritrea, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Britain, Russia, and New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Biopolitics, Militarism and Development in Contemporary
Eritrea
Tricia Redeker Hepner and David O'Kane
Chapter 1. Pitfalls of Nationalism in Eritrea
Tekle M. Woldemikael
Chapter 2. War, Spatio-temporal Perception, and the Nation: Fighters and
Farmers in the Highlands
Michael Mahrt
Chapter 3. The Youth Has Gone From Our Soil: Place and Politics in Refugee
Resettlement and Agrarian Development
Amanda Poole
Chapter 4. Human Resource Development and the State: Higher Education in
Post-Revolutionary Eritrea
Tanja R. Müller
Chapter 5. Avoiding Wastage by Making Soldiers: Technologies of the State
and the Imagination of the Educated Nation
Jennifer Riggan
Chapter 6. Trapped in Adolescence: The Post-War Urban Generation
Magnus Treiber
Chapter 7. Seeking Asylum in a Transnational Social Field: New Refugees and
Struggles for Autonomy and Human Rights
Tricia Redeker Hepner
Chapter 8. The Eritrean State in Comparative Perspective
Greg Cameron
Conclusion: Biopolitics and Dilemmas of Development in Eritrea and
Elsewhere
Tricia Redeker Hepner and David O'Kane
Bibliography
Index