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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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'. Zusammenfassung 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. 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 ...
