| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvii, 197 pages) |
| Series |
Dislocations ; v. 6 |
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Dislocations ; v. 6.
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| Contents |
Title page-Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1-Pitfalls of Nationalism in Eritrea; Chapter 2-War, Spatiotemporal Perception, and the Nation; Chapter 3-The Youth Has Gone From Our Soul; Chapter 4-Human Resource Development and the State; Chapter 5-Avoiding Wastage by Making Soldiers; Chapter 6-Trapped in Adolescence; Chapter 7-Seeking Asylum in a Transnational Social Field; Chapter 8-The Eritrean State in Comparative Perspective; Conclusion; List of Contributors; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-189) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nation-building -- Eritrea -- History -- 21st century
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Biopolitics -- Eritrea -- History -- 21st century
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Economic development -- Eritrea -- History -- 21st century
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HISTORY -- Africa -- East.
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Biopolitics
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Economic development
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Nation-building
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Eritrea -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Eritrea
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
O'Kane, David
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Redeker Hepner, Tricia M
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| ISBN |
9781845458980 |
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1845458982 |
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