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Biopolitics, militarism, and development : Eritrea in the twenty-first century /
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 hail...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2009.
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| Colección: | Dislocations ;
v. 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxvii, 197 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-189) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781845458980 1845458982 |