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What does it look like when a country celebrates & shows solidarity with an infrastructure project? How is infrastructure a nation-building tool, you ask? How can infrastructure mediate a sense of belonging? Exhibit A: 
today. See thread & hashtags #GERD #itsmydam
today. See thread & hashtags #GERD #itsmydam
Of course this comes at a time when negotiations on the dam are still ongoing (and look far from being straightforward), domestic politics is on a knife-edge and the COVID19 pandemic continues to surge.
If people want to read more about the anthropology and politics of infrastructure, I can highly recommend Brian Larkin's review article on the 'politics and poetics of infrastructure'. An excellent summary of the literature in this field: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092412-155522
