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Book SynopsisBringing 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.
Trade Review “…provides a much-needed collection of ethnographies and historical analyses on Eritrea’s development model and its discontents…the ethnographies presented in this volume contribute towards a rare perspective on Eritrean militarized and militarizing development and state formation.” · JRAI
“…provides a much needed, first-rate collection of scholarship concerning the operations and development of the Eritrean state during the last decade. Each chapter utilizes well-grounded research to illustrate the myriad complexities related to Eritrean national identity, state-building, and the political significance of diasporic communities.” · North East African Studies
“This volume offers significant and new information on and insights into current developments in many different areas and – thanks to a comprehensive bibliography on Eritrea and theoretical foundations of the concept of biopolitics as an appendix – inspirations for further general readings and reflections in the field of political.science.” · Peripherie
“This little collection provides an excellent overview of the processes and policies at work in these transformations and gives a multifaceted picture of contemporary Eritrea…The volume is organized around the theme of biopolitics, militarism, and the state and the chapters while quite diverse in subject matter work together exceptionally well in addressing common themes. This book should be read by policy makers and those engaged in humanitarian interventions in the Horn of Africa.” · Anthropos
Table of Contents Introduction: Biopolitics, Militarism and Development in Contemporary Eritrea
Tricia Redeker Hepner and David O’Kane
Chapter 1. Pitfalls of Nationalism in Eritrea
Tekle M. Woldemikael
Chapter 2. War, Spatio-temporal Perception, and the Nation: Fighters and Farmers in the Highlands
Michael Mahrt
Chapter 3. The Youth Has Gone From Our Soil: Place and Politics in Refugee Resettlement and Agrarian Development
Amanda Poole
Chapter 4. Human Resource Development and the State: Higher Education in Post-Revolutionary Eritrea
Tanja R. Müller
Chapter 5. Avoiding Wastage by Making Soldiers: Technologies of the State and the Imagination of the Educated Nation
Jennifer Riggan
Chapter 6. Trapped in Adolescence: The Post-War Urban Generation
Magnus Treiber
Chapter 7. Seeking Asylum in a Transnational Social Field: New Refugees and Struggles for Autonomy and Human Rights
Tricia Redeker Hepner
Chapter 8. The Eritrean State in Comparative Perspective
Greg Cameron
Conclusion: Biopolitics and Dilemmas of Development in Eritrea and Elsewhere
Tricia Redeker Hepner and David O’Kane
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