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Under construction : technologies of development in urban Ethiopia /

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 Ethiop...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mains, Daniel, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.