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Dr Biruk
Terrefe
BIOGRAPHY
Dr Biruk Terrefe is a Departmental Lecturer in African Politics. His research broadly focuses on how infrastructure projects and the control of urban spaces are integral to the politics of state-building in the Horn of Africa. His recent work has been on the Ethiopian state and the tensions between the ruling party’s centralised developmental ambitions and the ethnically federated architecture of the state. This tension becomes particularly evident in the study of infrastructure, as highly contested material spaces of political bargaining. Before joining DPIR, he was a DPhil Candidate at Oxford's Department of International Development.

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