Outputs (13)

The Everyday State in Africa: Governance Practices and State Ideas in Ethiopia (2020)
Book
Mulugeta, D. (2020). The Everyday State in Africa: Governance Practices and State Ideas in Ethiopia. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429202049

This book reconceptualises the idea of the state in Ethiopia. It focuses on the cultural and political processes of state formation, and reveals the complexity of state-society relations as they unfold in the everyday context of local life.It does so... Read More about The Everyday State in Africa: Governance Practices and State Ideas in Ethiopia.

Dynamics of state-society relations in Ethiopia: paradoxes of community empowerment and participation in irrigation management (2019)
Journal Article
Mulugeta, D. (2019). Dynamics of state-society relations in Ethiopia: paradoxes of community empowerment and participation in irrigation management. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 13(3), 565-583. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2019.1674050

This article examines processes by which development project implementations afford the state the appearance of being a separate structure. By exploring the implementation of an important state development project in North-western Ethiopia, the Koga... Read More about Dynamics of state-society relations in Ethiopia: paradoxes of community empowerment and participation in irrigation management.

Everyday conceptions of the state in Ethiopia: corruption discourses, moral idioms and the ideals of mengist (2019)
Journal Article
Mulugeta, D. (2019). Everyday conceptions of the state in Ethiopia: corruption discourses, moral idioms and the ideals of mengist. Critical African Studies, 11(3), 285-300. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2019.1689830

This article examines the ways in which ideas of state are constituted in North Ethiopia by focusing on corruption and development discourses found in local public domains as well as on religious metaphors and idioms which define the roles and obliga... Read More about Everyday conceptions of the state in Ethiopia: corruption discourses, moral idioms and the ideals of mengist.