Fana Gebresenbet
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 278209 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Fana Gebresenbet |
| NOMBRES | Fana |
| APELLIDO | Gebresenbet |
| FIRMA | GEBRESENBET F |
| AFILIACIONES | Addis Ababa University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8376-7068 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
‘Mumps on top of a goiter’
What does war mean for people living in food-insecure and drought-prone peripheral areas of Ethiopia? This study explores a repertoire of everyday experiences of local people during the two-year war (2020–2022) in North Ethiopia. It draws on primary data collected from 22 participants across war-affected communities in Wag-Himra Zone of Ethiopia’s Amhara region, supplemented by secondary sources. The study argues that the war is ‘the continuation…
Peace as governmentality
This paper investigates the complex, contested nature of order-making in rapidly expanding African cities, focusing on the intersection of hybrid governance and everyday peace. Extending the urban turn in peace studies we examine how peace is sought and realised amidst rapid urbanization and social tensions in ‘everyday’ Nigerian cities. Drawing on qualitative and ethnographic data from a cross-section of cities – Lagos, Lokoja/Obajana, and Jos –…
Social media and role specialisations in Oromo Protests, Ethiopia
Even though Ethiopia is one of the world’s least connected countries, social media played a critical factor in the Oromo Protests (2015–2020). Understanding this contradiction requires a look beyond the offline protest actors on the ground and street rallies and investigating non-territorial online actors participating in social media mobilisation. These interactions highlight developments in communication technologies and the flow of information…
Religious Informality
The rise of fragile cities in the global South has been attributed to growing informalities. The aim of this article is to explore how religious bodies informally operate and utilise urban public places and how this contributes to the growing conflicts in Addis Ababa. We employed the concept of ‘religious informality’ to display how land was utilised, informally, outside the bounds of legal and planning frameworks. Based on an exploratory qualita…
Debating the implications of the Pretoria Agreement for Ethiopia
Following an earlier piece by the authors debating the importance of the Pretoria Agreement (or Cessation of Hostilities Agreement) concluded in November 2022, this piece sets out their formal response to and rebuttal of blog comments received on Roape.net (Gebrehiwot et al. 2023), and also of comments in a debate piece by J. Abbink (2023) published in this issue of the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE). The authors here contest the vie…
The Pretoria Agreement
On 2 November 2022, welcome news came from Pretoria, South Africa. After 10 days of negotiations, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) signed a Cessation of Hostilities Agreement. This piece situates the importance of the war, and more importantly the agreement, within the longue durée of Ethiopian politics and highlights its importance as a turning point marking the end of the era of …
Youth on the Move
At a time when policies are increasingly against it, international migration has become the subject of great public and academic attention. This book departs from the dominant approach of studying international migration at macro level, and from the perspective of destination countries. The contributors here seek to do more than ‘scratch the surface’ of the migration process, by foregrounding the voices and views of Ethiopian youth–potential migr…
Lands of the Future
Youth on the Move
Introduction Multiple Transitions and Irregular Migration in Ethiopia
This introductory chapter argues that consideration of multiple transitions sending communities and countries go through, and assemblage thinking will contribute to a more nuanced understanding of irregular migration from the perspective of sending communities. The chapter considers five co-occurring transitions with differing logics: demographic, political, socio-economic, youth to adulthood, and global. These transitions provide the structural …
Lands of the Future
Villagization in Ethiopia’s Lowlands
Conclusion.
Lands of the Future
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 strug…
Lands of the Future
Lands of the Future
New Dimensions in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Negotiations
The preponderant focus of the negotiations between Ethiopia and Egypt over the use of the Nile/the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is on material aspects of water security, ignoring non-material, emotional attachments. Using ontological security as an analytical lens, it is argued that the GERD will lead to re-structuring Egypt’s state identity conception while potentially serving as an anchor to Ethiopia’s changing ontological security. I…
Land, Investment & Politics
Examines the new challenges facing Africa's pastoral drylands from large-scale investments and how this might affect the economic and political landscape for the regions affected and their peoples. More than ever before, the gaze of global investment has been directed to the drylands of Africa, but what does this mean for these regions' pastoralists and other livestock-keepers and their livelihoods? Will those who have occupied drylands over gene…
Fundamental Challenges in Academic–Government Partnership in Conflict Research in the Pastoral Lowlands of Ethiopia
The Ethiopian government continuously calls for policy-relevant research. However, this admission of policy challenges and attempts to fill the gap cannot ignore the political economy and power dynamics in Ethiopia. This article discusses challenges to an impactful partnership with government, drawing from the experiences of the ‘conflict working group’, the ESRC-DFID-funded project ‘Shifting In/equality Dynamics in Ethiopia: from Research to App…
The paradox of the Ethiopian Developmental State
This paper challenges the commonplace characterisation of Ethiopia as a developmental state, by stressing that the Ethiopian model, which heavily relies on political control of the rent process at the expense of the bureaucratic knowledge/expertise, is not conducive for industrial policy implementation. We show that this approach worked fine at early stages of growth, however with the increasing complexity, knowledge- and capital-intensive nature…
Resourcing land, dynamics of exclusion and conflict in the Maji area, Ethiopia
This article highlights local to global linkages of 'land grabbing'-related conflicts based on a case study of land investments in the Maji area, located in Ethiopia's southernmost fringe territory. History of the area over the past century tells that national actors have aggravated conflicts at the local level to meet resource demand at the national and global levels. Global economic processes and actors play an indispensable role in creating de…
Land Acquisitions, the Politics of Dispossession, and State-Remaking in Gambella, Western Ethiopia
This paper argues that development through large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) in Gambella, western Ethiopia, belies a state-remaking project under a dispossessive political economy. This argument is based on fieldwork in Gambella, Addis Ababa, and Minneapolis and is situated within the broader development agenda pursued by Ethiopia's ruling party. The political economy of LSLAs tells us that the deals are not occurring in a predominantly econo…
Securitisation of development in Ethiopia
This paper examines the developmental discourse of the Ethiopian government since 2001. This discourse frames poverty as an existential threat to Ethiopia, and it securitises development. The securitisation of a public issue gives credence to the immediate need for wider state powers and the aggressive mobilisation of (natural, financial and human) resources – at times by ignoring agreed-upon conventions – to combat a perceived existential threat…
Securitisation of development in Ethiopia
This paper examines the developmental discourse of the Ethiopian government since 2001. This discourse frames poverty as an existential threat to Ethiopia, and it securitises development. The securitisation of a public issue gives credence to the immediate need for wider state powers and the aggressive mobilisation of (natural, financial and human) resources – at times by ignoring agreed-upon conventions – to combat a perceived existential threat…
Land Acquisitions, the Politics of Dispossession, and State-Remaking in Gambella, Western Ethiopia
This paper argues that development through large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) in Gambella, western Ethiopia, belies a state-remaking project under a dispossessive political economy. This argument is based on fieldwork in Gambella, Addis Ababa, and Minneapolis and is situated within the broader development agenda pursued by Ethiopia's ruling party. The political economy of LSLAs tells us that the deals are not occurring in a predominantly econo…
The Pretoria Agreement
On 2 November 2022, welcome news came from Pretoria, South Africa. After 10 days of negotiations, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) signed a Cessation of Hostilities Agreement. This piece situates the importance of the war, and more importantly the agreement, within the longue durée of Ethiopian politics and highlights its importance as a turning point marking the end of the era of …
The paradox of the Ethiopian Developmental State
This paper challenges the commonplace characterisation of Ethiopia as a developmental state, by stressing that the Ethiopian model, which heavily relies on political control of the rent process at the expense of the bureaucratic knowledge/expertise, is not conducive for industrial policy implementation. We show that this approach worked fine at early stages of growth, however with the increasing complexity, knowledge- and capital-intensive nature…
Resourcing land, dynamics of exclusion and conflict in the Maji area, Ethiopia
This article highlights local to global linkages of 'land grabbing'-related conflicts based on a case study of land investments in the Maji area, located in Ethiopia's southernmost fringe territory. History of the area over the past century tells that national actors have aggravated conflicts at the local level to meet resource demand at the national and global levels. Global economic processes and actors play an indispensable role in creating de…
Securitisation of development in Ethiopia
This paper examines the developmental discourse of the Ethiopian government since 2001. This discourse frames poverty as an existential threat to Ethiopia, and it securitises development. The securitisation of a public issue gives credence to the immediate need for wider state powers and the aggressive mobilisation of (natural, financial and human) resources – at times by ignoring agreed-upon conventions – to combat a perceived existential threat…
Land Acquisitions, the Politics of Dispossession, and State-Remaking in Gambella, Western Ethiopia
This paper argues that development through large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) in Gambella, western Ethiopia, belies a state-remaking project under a dispossessive political economy. This argument is based on fieldwork in Gambella, Addis Ababa, and Minneapolis and is situated within the broader development agenda pursued by Ethiopia's ruling party. The political economy of LSLAs tells us that the deals are not occurring in a predominantly econo…
Resourcing land, dynamics of exclusion and conflict in the Maji area, Ethiopia
This article highlights local to global linkages of 'land grabbing'-related conflicts based on a case study of land investments in the Maji area, located in Ethiopia's southernmost fringe territory. History of the area over the past century tells that national actors have aggravated conflicts at the local level to meet resource demand at the national and global levels. Global economic processes and actors play an indispensable role in creating de…
Fundamental Challenges in Academic–Government Partnership in Conflict Research in the Pastoral Lowlands of Ethiopia
The Ethiopian government continuously calls for policy-relevant research. However, this admission of policy challenges and attempts to fill the gap cannot ignore the political economy and power dynamics in Ethiopia. This article discusses challenges to an impactful partnership with government, drawing from the experiences of the ‘conflict working group’, the ESRC-DFID-funded project ‘Shifting In/equality Dynamics in Ethiopia: from Research to App…
The paradox of the Ethiopian Developmental State
This paper challenges the commonplace characterisation of Ethiopia as a developmental state, by stressing that the Ethiopian model, which heavily relies on political control of the rent process at the expense of the bureaucratic knowledge/expertise, is not conducive for industrial policy implementation. We show that this approach worked fine at early stages of growth, however with the increasing complexity, knowledge- and capital-intensive nature…
Land, Investment & Politics
Examines the new challenges facing Africa's pastoral drylands from large-scale investments and how this might affect the economic and political landscape for the regions affected and their peoples. More than ever before, the gaze of global investment has been directed to the drylands of Africa, but what does this mean for these regions' pastoralists and other livestock-keepers and their livelihoods? Will those who have occupied drylands over gene…
Lands of the Future
Villagization in Ethiopia’s Lowlands
Conclusion.
Lands of the Future
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 strug…
Lands of the Future
Lands of the Future
New Dimensions in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Negotiations
The preponderant focus of the negotiations between Ethiopia and Egypt over the use of the Nile/the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is on material aspects of water security, ignoring non-material, emotional attachments. Using ontological security as an analytical lens, it is argued that the GERD will lead to re-structuring Egypt’s state identity conception while potentially serving as an anchor to Ethiopia’s changing ontological security. I…
Youth on the Move
At a time when policies are increasingly against it, international migration has become the subject of great public and academic attention. This book departs from the dominant approach of studying international migration at macro level, and from the perspective of destination countries. The contributors here seek to do more than ‘scratch the surface’ of the migration process, by foregrounding the voices and views of Ethiopian youth–potential migr…
Lands of the Future
Youth on the Move
Introduction Multiple Transitions and Irregular Migration in Ethiopia
This introductory chapter argues that consideration of multiple transitions sending communities and countries go through, and assemblage thinking will contribute to a more nuanced understanding of irregular migration from the perspective of sending communities. The chapter considers five co-occurring transitions with differing logics: demographic, political, socio-economic, youth to adulthood, and global. These transitions provide the structural …
Debating the implications of the Pretoria Agreement for Ethiopia
Following an earlier piece by the authors debating the importance of the Pretoria Agreement (or Cessation of Hostilities Agreement) concluded in November 2022, this piece sets out their formal response to and rebuttal of blog comments received on Roape.net (Gebrehiwot et al. 2023), and also of comments in a debate piece by J. Abbink (2023) published in this issue of the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE). The authors here contest the vie…
The Pretoria Agreement
On 2 November 2022, welcome news came from Pretoria, South Africa. After 10 days of negotiations, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) signed a Cessation of Hostilities Agreement. This piece situates the importance of the war, and more importantly the agreement, within the longue durée of Ethiopian politics and highlights its importance as a turning point marking the end of the era of …
Religious Informality
The rise of fragile cities in the global South has been attributed to growing informalities. The aim of this article is to explore how religious bodies informally operate and utilise urban public places and how this contributes to the growing conflicts in Addis Ababa. We employed the concept of ‘religious informality’ to display how land was utilised, informally, outside the bounds of legal and planning frameworks. Based on an exploratory qualita…
‘Mumps on top of a goiter’
What does war mean for people living in food-insecure and drought-prone peripheral areas of Ethiopia? This study explores a repertoire of everyday experiences of local people during the two-year war (2020–2022) in North Ethiopia. It draws on primary data collected from 22 participants across war-affected communities in Wag-Himra Zone of Ethiopia’s Amhara region, supplemented by secondary sources. The study argues that the war is ‘the continuation…
Peace as governmentality
This paper investigates the complex, contested nature of order-making in rapidly expanding African cities, focusing on the intersection of hybrid governance and everyday peace. Extending the urban turn in peace studies we examine how peace is sought and realised amidst rapid urbanization and social tensions in ‘everyday’ Nigerian cities. Drawing on qualitative and ethnographic data from a cross-section of cities – Lagos, Lokoja/Obajana, and Jos –…
Social media and role specialisations in Oromo Protests, Ethiopia
Even though Ethiopia is one of the world’s least connected countries, social media played a critical factor in the Oromo Protests (2015–2020). Understanding this contradiction requires a look beyond the offline protest actors on the ground and street rallies and investigating non-territorial online actors participating in social media mobilisation. These interactions highlight developments in communication technologies and the flow of information…
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