Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development: Eritrea in the Twenty-First Century

by Tricia Redeker Hepner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857452894
• ISBN13: 9780857452894
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"