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Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development - Eritrea in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development - Eritrea in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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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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