Davide Chinigò

Everyday Practices of State Building in Ethiopia

Power, Scale, Performativity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book revisits key debates about state formation and the role of state policies in shaping state-society relations in Africa. It provides a systematic discussion of the political events that led to the institutionalisation of the developmental state in Ethiopia in the course of the 2000s and 2010s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 163mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780192869654
• ISBN-10: 0192869655
• Artikelnr.: 66149840

Autorenporträt

Davide Chinigò is Research Fellow in African History and Institutions at the University for foreigners of Perugia, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna in the Department of Political and Social Science and the Department of Cultural Heritage. He is also Research Fellow at Stellenbosch University in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. His research focuses on the history and politics of international relations and development in Africa, addressing case studies in Ethiopia, Malawi, and South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: The state in the everyday: conceptual and methodological
challenges
* 2: Returning from resettlement. Rural modernisation in Waag Himra
* 3: Manoeuvring land registration. Decentralisation of land
administration in Siraro
* 4: Making the most of a failed biofuels project. Agriculture
commercialisation in Wolaita
* 5: Performing entrepreneurship. Job creation in Kolfe
* 6: Becoming a worker. Industrialisation and textile labour in Mekelle
* Conclusion: Identity politics and the everyday state in Ethiopia