Blackouts and progress: Privatization, Infrastructure, and a Developmentalist State in Jimma, Ethiopia

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-27

  Mains, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Infrastructure; Neoliberalism; Patron client relations; Progress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856425523     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: 15481360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1360.2012.01124.x     Document Type: Article

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