Title Under construction : technologies of development in urban Ethiopia / Daniel Mains

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents Constructing a renaissance : hydropower and the temporal politics of development -- Asphalt roads, regulating infrastructures, and improvised lives -- Feeling change through dirt and water : the affective politics of urban development in Jimma, 2009-2015 -- Governing the bajaj : states, markets, and multiple materialisms -- What can a stone do? Cobblestone roads, governance, and labor Summary 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.-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL In English Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed digitized 2019. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Cities and towns -- Ethiopia -- Growth Infrastructure (Economics) -- Ethiopia Economic development projects -- Ethiopia -- Planning Community development -- Ethiopia -- Āwasa Community development -- Ethiopia -- Kefa Kifle Hāger SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural Cities and towns -- Growth Community development Economic development projects -- Planning Economic policy Infrastructure (Economics) Stadtentwicklung Infrastrukturpolitik SUBJECT Ethiopia -- Economic policy Subject Ethiopia Ethiopia -- Āwasa Ethiopia -- Kefa Kifle Hāger Äthiopien Form Electronic book LC no. 2019010350 ISBN 9781478007043 1478007044

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