Lands of the Future

Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78920-990-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 655 g

Reihe: Integration and Conflict Studies

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’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gabbert, Echi Christina

Gebresenbet, Fana

Galaty, John G.

Schlee, Günther

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Schlee, Günther
Günther Schlee is Professor of Social Anthropology at Arba Minch University, Ethiopia, and Director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. His main publications include Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern Kenya (Manchester University Press, 1989) and How Enemies Are Made: Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflict (Berghahn Books, 2008).

Gebresenbet, Fana
Fana Gebresenbet is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He has done extensive fieldwork on land investment in pastoral regions of Ethiopia.

Galaty, John G.
John G. Galaty is  Professor of Anthropology at McGill University, Canada. Focused on eastern Africa, his areas of specialisms are  pastoralism and social change and rangeland development.

Gabbert, Echi Christina
Echi Christina Gabbert is an anthropologist at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Göttingen University, Germany. She coordinates the Lands of the Future Initiative, that focuses on pastoralism, global investment and local responses in East Africa in the 21rst century.

Fana Gebresenbet is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He has done extensive fieldwork on land investment in pastoral regions of Ethiopia.