ISBN:
9781789209914
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (396 p)
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Integration and Conflict Studies 23
Abstract:
Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the struggles and strategies of those who face dispossession and also discredit ideological false modernist tropes like 'backwardness' and 'primitiveness'
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Futuremaking with Pastoralists -- Echi Christina Gabbert -- Part I: Setting the Context: Modernity and Citizenship in Pastoral Areas -- Chapter 1. Modern Mobility in East Africa: Pastoral Responses to Rangeland Fragmentation, Enclosure and Settlement -- John G. Galaty -- Chapter 2. Unequal Citizenship and One-Sided Communication: Anthropological Perspectives on Collective Identification in the Context of Large-Scale Land Transfers in Ethiopia -- Günther Schlee -- Chapter 3. Global Trade, Local Realities: Why African States Undervalue Pastoralism -- Peter D. Little -- Part II: Contested Identities and Territories: A History of Expropriation -- Chapter 4. Modes of Dispossession of Indigenous Lands and Territories in Africa -- Elifuraha I. Laltaika and Kelly M. Askew -- Chapter 5. Land and the State in Ethiopia -- John Markakis -- Chapter 6. Persistent Expropriation of Pastoral Lands: The Afar Case -- Maknun Ashami and Jean Lydall -- Part III: Power, Politics and Reactions to State-Building -- Chapter 7. Anatomy of a White Elephant: Investment Failure and Land Conflicts on Ethiopia's Oromia-Somali Frontier -- Jonah Wedekind -- Chapter 8. From Cattle Herding to Charcoal Burning: Land Expropriation, State Consolidation and Livelihood Changes in Abaya Valley, Southern Ethiopia -- Asebe Regassa -- Chapter 9. Villagization in Ethiopia's Lowlands: Development vs. Facilitating Control and Dispossession -- Fana Gebresenbet -- Part IV: Underdeveloping South Omo -- Chapter 10. 'Breaking Every Rule in the Book': The Story of River Basin Development in Ethiopia's Omo Valley -- David Turton -- Chapter 11. State-Building in the Ethiopian South-Western Lowlands: Experiencing the Brunt of State Power in Mela -- Lucie Buffavand -- Chapter 12. Customary Land Use and Local Consent Practices in Mun (Mursi): A New Call for Meaningful FPIC Standards in Southern Ethiopia -- Shauna LaTosky -- Chapter 13. Ethiopia's 'Blue Oil'? Hydropower, Irrigation and Development in the Omo-Turkana Basin -- Edward G.J. Stevenson and Benedikt Kamski -- Conclusion: Pastoralists for Future -- Echi Christina Gabbert, Fana Gebresenbet and Jonah Wedekind -- Glossary -- Index
Note:
Zielgruppe: Professional and scholarly
