Daniel Mains

Under Construction: Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia

Duke University Press, 2019

Hope is Cut: Youth, Unemployment, and the Future in Urban Ethiopia

Temple University Press, 2011

Mains, D., & Kinfu, E. (2017). Governing three-wheeled motorcycle taxis in urban Ethiopia: States, markets, and moral discourses of infrastructure. American Ethnologist, 44(2), 263-274. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12477

Mains, D., & Kinfu, E. (2016). Making the city of nations and nationalities: the politics of ethnicity and roads in Hawassa, Ethiopia. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 54(4), 645-669. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X16000562

Mains, D. (2013). Friends and money: Balancing affection and reciprocity among young men in urban Ethiopia. American Ethnologist, 40(2), 335-346. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12025

Mains, D. (2012). Cynicism and hope: urban youth and relations of power during the 2005 Ethiopian elections. In T. Hagmann & K. Tronvoll (Eds.), Contested Power in Ethiopia (pp. 137-163). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004218499

Mains, D. (2012). Blackouts and Progress: Privatization, Infrastructure, and a Developmentalist State in Jimma, Ethiopia. Cultural Anthropology, 27(1), 3-27. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2012.01124.x

Mains, D. (2007). Neoliberal times: Progress, boredom, and shame among young men in urban Ethiopia. American Ethnologist, 34(4), 659-673. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.2007.34.4.659