Asebe Regassa
Biographic Data
| ID | 84570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asebe Regassa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asebe |
| FAMILY NAME | Regassa |
| SIGNATURE | REGASSA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9126-9253 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Social-Ecological Systems in Transition: Understanding the Dynamics of the Konso Cultural Landscape Unesco World Heritage Site, Ethiopia
Cultural landscapes are inherently dynamic, shaped by the continuous interplay between multiple factors. Understanding their dynamics through remote sensing-based technologies and landscape metrics is essential for generating empirical evidence needed to inform effective heritage conservation decisions. Drawing on an integrated methodological framework that combines human geography, remote sensing, GIS, and landscape ecology, our study critically…
Contested development, entangled governmentalities and the politics of pastoralism in the Upper Awash Valley of Ethiopia
Jirra: Oromo protest songs as weapons of resistance against domination in Ethiopia
Beginning from the 1960s, the Oromo struggle for emancipation from authoritarianism in Ethiopia took dimensions of peasant uprisings, liberation movements, and everyday forms of resistance through which discourses and institutions of domination have been resisted and defied. As part of their resistance strategies, the Oromo use art in defying political oppression, economic inequalities, and socio-cultural marginalization. From legendary musicians…
Reimagining self-determination: Relational, decolonial, and intersectional perspectives
Self-determination language and practice are increasingly perplexing in the 21st century. Historically linked to decolonization processes and post-imperial transformations of the international system, self-determination has espoused both violent and non-violent resistance, and supported both existing and emergent sovereignty. With the Janus-faced relationship between self-determination and colonialism continuing to this day, the contemporary mome…
The emperor, the lion and the peacock: Monuments and contested state sovereignty in contemporary Ethiopia
As a first project launched after his nomination as Ethiopia’s new prime minister in 2018, Abiy Ahmed renovated the Imperial Palace in Ethiopia’s political center, Addis Ababa to turn it into a heritage site of significance for nation-state building. This project was widely interpreted as a sign for the end of authoritarian rule and political tensions in the country. In this paper, we scrutinize the monumentalization inside the palace as an assem…
Electoral Authoritarianism and the Question of Representation: The Case ofCaffeeOromia, Ethiopia
This article analyses aspects of representation and legitimacy of Caffee Oromia (the legislative council of the Oromia National Regional State) within Ethiopia's electoral authoritarian political landscape. The article sheds light on the interplay between the Caffee, elected representatives and constituencies in Ethiopia's 'democratisation' experiment within the post-1991 federal system. The empirical data for this research were collected from fi…
From Cattle Herding to Charcoal Burning: Land Expropriation, State Consolidation and Livelihood Changes in Abaya Valley, Southern Ethiopia
Frontiers of Extraction and Contestation: Dispossession, exclusion and local resistance against Midroc Laga-Dambi Gold Mine, southern Ethiopia
Resource frontiers in Ethiopia have served as spaces of state power consolidation and wealth accumulation and as manifestations of asymmetrical power relations between state and society. Successive Ethiopian regimes pursued high-modernist development models under broader narratives of civilizing ‘backward’ societies and ‘transforming’ ‘unproductive’ spaces into productive resources. Although much of state intervention in the pastoralist frontiers…
Self-Determination, Multinational Federalism and an Emerging Threat in Ethiopia: A Decolonial Approach
With the coming to power of Abiy Ahmed in April 2018 following a popular movement that was initially sparked in Oromia and then spread to other regions, there was a short period of euphoria over the country's political landscape. Ethiopians and the international community alike were optimistic of democratic transition that would lead to the opening up of political and media spaces, fair and free elections, consolidation of the multinational feder…
Civilizing' the pastoral frontier: Land grabbing, dispossession and coercive agrarian development in Ethiopia
This paper analyzes frontier dynamics of land dispossessions in Ethiopia's pastoral lowland regions. Through a case study of two sedentarization schemes in South Omo Valley, we illustrate how politics of coercive sedentarization are legitimated in the 'civilizing' impetus of 'improvement schemes' for 'backward' pastoralists. We study sedentarization schemes that are implemented to evict pastoralist communities from grazing land to be appropriated…
Post-imperial statecraft: High modernism and the politics of land dispossession in Ethiopia's pastoral frontier
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 mo…
Civilizing' the pastoral frontier: Land grabbing, dispossession and coercive agrarian development in Ethiopia
This paper analyzes frontier dynamics of land dispossessions in Ethiopia's pastoral lowland regions. Through a case study of two sedentarization schemes in South Omo Valley, we illustrate how politics of coercive sedentarization are legitimated in the 'civilizing' impetus of 'improvement schemes' for 'backward' pastoralists. We study sedentarization schemes that are implemented to evict pastoralist communities from grazing land to be appropriated…
Post-imperial statecraft: High modernism and the politics of land dispossession in Ethiopia's pastoral frontier
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 mo…
Frontiers of Extraction and Contestation: Dispossession, exclusion and local resistance against Midroc Laga-Dambi Gold Mine, southern Ethiopia
Resource frontiers in Ethiopia have served as spaces of state power consolidation and wealth accumulation and as manifestations of asymmetrical power relations between state and society. Successive Ethiopian regimes pursued high-modernist development models under broader narratives of civilizing ‘backward’ societies and ‘transforming’ ‘unproductive’ spaces into productive resources. Although much of state intervention in the pastoralist frontiers…
Reimagining self-determination: Relational, decolonial, and intersectional perspectives
Self-determination language and practice are increasingly perplexing in the 21st century. Historically linked to decolonization processes and post-imperial transformations of the international system, self-determination has espoused both violent and non-violent resistance, and supported both existing and emergent sovereignty. With the Janus-faced relationship between self-determination and colonialism continuing to this day, the contemporary mome…
The emperor, the lion and the peacock: Monuments and contested state sovereignty in contemporary Ethiopia
As a first project launched after his nomination as Ethiopia’s new prime minister in 2018, Abiy Ahmed renovated the Imperial Palace in Ethiopia’s political center, Addis Ababa to turn it into a heritage site of significance for nation-state building. This project was widely interpreted as a sign for the end of authoritarian rule and political tensions in the country. In this paper, we scrutinize the monumentalization inside the palace as an assem…
Self-Determination, Multinational Federalism and an Emerging Threat in Ethiopia: A Decolonial Approach
With the coming to power of Abiy Ahmed in April 2018 following a popular movement that was initially sparked in Oromia and then spread to other regions, there was a short period of euphoria over the country's political landscape. Ethiopians and the international community alike were optimistic of democratic transition that would lead to the opening up of political and media spaces, fair and free elections, consolidation of the multinational feder…
Electoral Authoritarianism and the Question of Representation: The Case ofCaffeeOromia, Ethiopia
This article analyses aspects of representation and legitimacy of Caffee Oromia (the legislative council of the Oromia National Regional State) within Ethiopia's electoral authoritarian political landscape. The article sheds light on the interplay between the Caffee, elected representatives and constituencies in Ethiopia's 'democratisation' experiment within the post-1991 federal system. The empirical data for this research were collected from fi…
Post-imperial statecraft: High modernism and the politics of land dispossession in Ethiopia's pastoral frontier
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 mo…
Civilizing' the pastoral frontier: Land grabbing, dispossession and coercive agrarian development in Ethiopia
This paper analyzes frontier dynamics of land dispossessions in Ethiopia's pastoral lowland regions. Through a case study of two sedentarization schemes in South Omo Valley, we illustrate how politics of coercive sedentarization are legitimated in the 'civilizing' impetus of 'improvement schemes' for 'backward' pastoralists. We study sedentarization schemes that are implemented to evict pastoralist communities from grazing land to be appropriated…
From Cattle Herding to Charcoal Burning: Land Expropriation, State Consolidation and Livelihood Changes in Abaya Valley, Southern Ethiopia
Frontiers of Extraction and Contestation: Dispossession, exclusion and local resistance against Midroc Laga-Dambi Gold Mine, southern Ethiopia
Resource frontiers in Ethiopia have served as spaces of state power consolidation and wealth accumulation and as manifestations of asymmetrical power relations between state and society. Successive Ethiopian regimes pursued high-modernist development models under broader narratives of civilizing ‘backward’ societies and ‘transforming’ ‘unproductive’ spaces into productive resources. Although much of state intervention in the pastoralist frontiers…
Self-Determination, Multinational Federalism and an Emerging Threat in Ethiopia: A Decolonial Approach
With the coming to power of Abiy Ahmed in April 2018 following a popular movement that was initially sparked in Oromia and then spread to other regions, there was a short period of euphoria over the country's political landscape. Ethiopians and the international community alike were optimistic of democratic transition that would lead to the opening up of political and media spaces, fair and free elections, consolidation of the multinational feder…
The emperor, the lion and the peacock: Monuments and contested state sovereignty in contemporary Ethiopia
As a first project launched after his nomination as Ethiopia’s new prime minister in 2018, Abiy Ahmed renovated the Imperial Palace in Ethiopia’s political center, Addis Ababa to turn it into a heritage site of significance for nation-state building. This project was widely interpreted as a sign for the end of authoritarian rule and political tensions in the country. In this paper, we scrutinize the monumentalization inside the palace as an assem…
Electoral Authoritarianism and the Question of Representation: The Case ofCaffeeOromia, Ethiopia
This article analyses aspects of representation and legitimacy of Caffee Oromia (the legislative council of the Oromia National Regional State) within Ethiopia's electoral authoritarian political landscape. The article sheds light on the interplay between the Caffee, elected representatives and constituencies in Ethiopia's 'democratisation' experiment within the post-1991 federal system. The empirical data for this research were collected from fi…
Contested development, entangled governmentalities and the politics of pastoralism in the Upper Awash Valley of Ethiopia
Jirra: Oromo protest songs as weapons of resistance against domination in Ethiopia
Beginning from the 1960s, the Oromo struggle for emancipation from authoritarianism in Ethiopia took dimensions of peasant uprisings, liberation movements, and everyday forms of resistance through which discourses and institutions of domination have been resisted and defied. As part of their resistance strategies, the Oromo use art in defying political oppression, economic inequalities, and socio-cultural marginalization. From legendary musicians…
Reimagining self-determination: Relational, decolonial, and intersectional perspectives
Self-determination language and practice are increasingly perplexing in the 21st century. Historically linked to decolonization processes and post-imperial transformations of the international system, self-determination has espoused both violent and non-violent resistance, and supported both existing and emergent sovereignty. With the Janus-faced relationship between self-determination and colonialism continuing to this day, the contemporary mome…
Social-Ecological Systems in Transition: Understanding the Dynamics of the Konso Cultural Landscape Unesco World Heritage Site, Ethiopia
Cultural landscapes are inherently dynamic, shaped by the continuous interplay between multiple factors. Understanding their dynamics through remote sensing-based technologies and landscape metrics is essential for generating empirical evidence needed to inform effective heritage conservation decisions. Drawing on an integrated methodological framework that combines human geography, remote sensing, GIS, and landscape ecology, our study critically…
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