1st Edition
The Everyday State in Africa Governance Practices and State Ideas in Ethiopia
By Daniel Mulugeta
Copyright 2020
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Contested Conceptualisations of Ethiopian Statehood 3. The Performative and Affective Impulses of Bureaucratic State Power 4. Boundary-making: The Construction of State-Society Distinction 5. Corruption Discourses, Moral Idioms, and the Ideals of Mengist 6. Demystifying the State: Boundary Crossing 7. State-territorialisation and Sedentarisation in Borana 8. Development, Class, and State Power: Patterns of Stratification 9. Development Talks, Practices, and State Imagination 10. Governance Practices and State Ideas
Biography
Daniel Mulugeta is a postdoctoral researcher at SOAS University of London, UK.
