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Informationen zum Autor Lahra Smith is Assistant Professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She has written extensively on ethnic identity, elections and political reform, and gender and politics in Africa. Her research has been published in The Journal of Modern African Studies, Democratization and policy briefs for organizations such as the United States Institute of Peace. She has received grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the Fulbright-Hays program. In 2010 she was the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Ethnicity and Multicultural Citizenship at Queen's University, Canada. She has also worked for USAID in Kenya and Ethiopia. Klappentext Provides a study of contemporary politics in Ethiopia through an empirical focus on language policy, citizenship, ethnic identity and gender. Zusammenfassung Provides a study of contemporary politics in Ethiopia through an empirical focus on language policy! citizenship! ethnic identity and gender. It uniquely focuses not only on the political institutions of Ethiopia and its history but also at the intersection of both modern and historical time periods. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Challenge: Unequal Citizenship: 1. Comparative perspectives on citizen-creation in Africa; 2. The historical context for modern Ethiopian citizenship; Part II. The Response: The State and Its Citizens: 3. Popular responses to unequal citizenship; 4. A referendum on ethnic identity and the claims of citizenship; 5. No going back on self-determination for the Oromo; 6. Ethiopian women and citizenship rights deferred; Conclusion.
