Publication: Post-imperial statecraft: high modernism and the politics of land dispossession in Ethiopia’s pastoral frontier
Post-imperial statecraft: high modernism and the politics of land dispossession in Ethiopia’s pastoral frontier
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Regassa, A., & Korf, B. (2018). Post-imperial statecraft: high modernism and the politics of land dispossession in Ethiopia’s pastoral frontier. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 12, 613–631. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2018.1517854
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This paper argues that the current EPRDF/TPLF government emulates the imperial ambition of high-modernist development in Ethiopia’s “last” frontier – the pastoral lowlands. We show that two pillars of imperial state expansion continue to haunt Ethiopia’s post-imperial statecraft in the pastoral lowlands: the frontier rush and a high-modernist ambition. The frontier rush is characterized by emptying land for private and state appropriation. The model of high modernism underpins political projects of legitimating state rule, violent lan
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- Regassa, Asebe
- Korf, Benedikt
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Regassa, A., & Korf, B. (2018). Post-imperial statecraft: high modernism and the politics of land dispossession in Ethiopia’s pastoral frontier. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 12, 613–631. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2018.1517854