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The Everyday State in Africa - Governance Practices and State Ideas in Ethiopia (Paperback)
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The Everyday State in Africa - Governance Practices and State Ideas in Ethiopia (Paperback)
Series: African Governance
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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 rooted in the ongoing contingencies of
power relations and social contexts. The book places the lives,
subjectivities, and experiences of farmers, pastoralists, women,
traders, shopkeepers, daily labourers, the rural youth, state
functionaries, and NGO workers in two rural localities in different
regions of Ethiopia at the centre of ethnographic enquiry. The book
offers a rich and compelling ethnographic account while making
distinctive theoretical contributions to the analysis of the state
in Africa. It foregrounds the Ethiopian experience as an important
component of the politics of everyday life in Africa, at the same
time as making important linkages between Ethiopia and politics in
the rest of the continent that are often overlooked in
Ethiopia-specific studies. Providing an invaluable insight into the
workings of the state in Ethiopia, it will be of interest to
scholars of state, society, development, governance, and African
politics.
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