War and the Politics of Identity in Ethiopia - The Making of Enemies and Allies in the Horn of Africa

List of contents

Introduction: making enemies & allies
Land, hierarchy & alliances in Highland Ethiopia
Historical trajectories of enemy images
Alternating enemies & allies: ethnicity in play
War behind the frontlines: individual approaches
Recontructing 'Ethiopianness': competing nationalisms
Ethiopia & its malcontents: purifying the nation
Conclusion: arresting Ethiopian nationalism
Postscript: after war, new enemies

About the author

KJETIL TRONVOLL is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjørknes University College, Director of Oslo Analytica policy research and advisory company, and a former Professor of Human Rights at the University of Oslo. His books include, with Daniel R. Mekonnen, The African Garrison State: Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea (2017).

Product details

• Authors: Kjetil Tronvoll
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9781847016126
• ISBN: 978-1-84701-612-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 218 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Eastern Africa
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Afrika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African