Lands of the Future: Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa

Published by Berghahn Books 2021

Lands of the Future

Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa

Edited by: Echi Christina Gabbert , Fana Gebresenbet , John G. Galaty and Günther Schlee

Volume 23 in the series Integration and Conflict Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789209914

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About this book

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’.

Author / Editor information

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.

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.

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).

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.

Reviews

“The chapter case studies significantly expand data on specific locales within Ethiopia where rangeland, river basins, and forests vital to pastoralists are being developed by both Ethiopian and international interests…Recommended.” • Choice

“Explains clearly how changes in pastoral and agro-pastoral land use/lease in East Africa lead to environmental degradation and depletion of resources… a very important book.” • Taddesse Berisso, Addis Ababa University

“The overall volume is highly coherent, well integrated, ethnographically convincing as well as written with technical clarity and sober positioning …no comparable material exists in scope and focus.” • Felix Girke, University of Konstanz

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction. Futuremaking with Pastoralists Echi Christina Gabbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Chapter 3 Global Trade, Local Realities. Why African States Undervalue Pastoralism Peter D. Little Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Chapter 5 Land and the State in Ethiopia John Markakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 6 Persistent Expropriation of Pastoral Lands The Afar Case Maknun Ashami and Jean Lydall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
Part III Power, Politics and Reactions to State-Building
Chapter 7 Anatomy of a White Elephant Investment Failure and Land Confl icts on Ethiopia’s Oromia–Somali Frontier Jonah Wedekind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
C hapter 8 From Cattle Herding to Charcoal Burning Land Expropriation, State Consolidation and Livelihood Changes in Abaya Valley, Southern Ethiopia Asebe Regassa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Chapter 9 Villagization in Ethiopia’s Lowlands Development vs. Facilitating Control and Dispossession Fana Gebresenbet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Part IV Underdeveloping South Omo
Chapter 10 ‘Breaking Every Rule in the Book’ Th e Story of River Basin Development in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley David Turton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Chapter 11 State-Building in the Ethiopian South-Western Lowlands Experiencing the Brunt of State Power in Mela Lucie Buffavand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Chapter 12 Customary Land Use and Local Consent Practices in Mun (Mursi) A New Call for Meaningful FPIC Standards in Southern Ethiopia Shauna LaTosky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
Chapter 13 Ethiopia’s ‘Blue Oil’? Hydropower, Irrigation and Development in the Omo-Turkana Basin Edward G.J. Stevenson and Benedikt Kamski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
Conclusion Pastoralists for Future Echi Christina Gabbert, Fana Gebresenbet and Jonah Wedekind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 396
Keywords: Anthropology (General); Mobility Studies; Environmental Studies (General)

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Published: January 15, 2021
ISBN: 9781789209914