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Over the past decade, Ethiopia has had one of the world's fastest
growing economies, largely due to its investments in
infrastructure, and it is through building dams, roads, and other
infrastructure that the Ethiopian state seeks to become a
middle-income country by 2025. Yet most urban Ethiopians struggle
to meet their daily needs and actively oppose a ruling party that
they associate with corruption and mismanagement. In Under
Construction Daniel Mains explores the intersection of development
and governance by examining the conflicts surrounding the
construction of specific infrastructural technologies: asphalt and
cobblestone roads, motorcycle taxis, and hydroelectric dams. These
projects serve as sites for nation building and the means for the
state to assert its legitimacy. The construction process-as well as
Ethiopians' experience of living with the disruption of
construction zones-reveals the tension and conflict between the
promise of progress and the possibility of failure. Mains
demonstrates how infrastructures as both ethnographic sites and as
a means of theorizing such concepts as progress, development, and
the state offer a valuable contrast to accounts of African
abjection and decline.
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CLANS OF BELARI (Paperback)
Rob Blackie, Peter Blackie; Edited by Mike Marts; Artworks by Daniel Maine
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Over the past decade, Ethiopia has had one of the world's fastest
growing economies, largely due to its investments in
infrastructure, and it is through building dams, roads, and other
infrastructure that the Ethiopian state seeks to become a
middle-income country by 2025. Yet most urban Ethiopians struggle
to meet their daily needs and actively oppose a ruling party that
they associate with corruption and mismanagement. In Under
Construction Daniel Mains explores the intersection of development
and governance by examining the conflicts surrounding the
construction of specific infrastructural technologies: asphalt and
cobblestone roads, motorcycle taxis, and hydroelectric dams. These
projects serve as sites for nation building and the means for the
state to assert its legitimacy. The construction process-as well as
Ethiopians' experience of living with the disruption of
construction zones-reveals the tension and conflict between the
promise of progress and the possibility of failure. Mains
demonstrates how infrastructures as both ethnographic sites and as
a means of theorizing such concepts as progress, development, and
the state offer a valuable contrast to accounts of African
abjection and decline.
In Field Stories, William H. Leggett and Ida Fadzillah Leggett have
pulled together a collection of ethnographic research and classroom
experiences from around the world. Drawing on moments both
unfamiliar and all too familiar to those accustomed to fieldwork,
the contributors to this collection demonstrate in clear, relatable
prose how intimate engagements with others in the field can present
moments of rich ethnographic value that provide insight into global
interconnections.
In Field Stories, William H. Leggett and Ida Fadzillah Leggett have
drawn together a collection of fieldwork experiences from around
the world. Using concepts like vulnerability, friendship, fear, and
affect, the contributors in this collection draw on their
ethnographic research and classroom experience to share instructive
narratives related to their personal encounters and insights from
working with local interlocuters. Drawing on moments both
unfamiliar and all too familiar to those accustomed to fieldwork,
the contributors demonstrate, in clear, relatable prose, how
intimate engagements with others in the field can present moments
of rich ethnographic value that can be used to understand and
provide insight into global interconnections.
A detailed look at young men in urban Ethiopia that reveals the
impact of economic development and globalization
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