Edward G J Stevenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 92789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward G J Stevenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward G J |
| FAMILY NAME | Stevenson |
| SIGNATURE | STEVENSON E G J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2018-8920 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sedentarization and Child Health
Objectives This study evaluates differences in the nutritional status of children under 5 years old among the Bodi (Mela) of southwest Ethiopia, in the context of a sedentarization program which involved resettlement of pastoralist families in government‐designed villages (villagization sites). Methods Data were collected in 2013 from two settings: state‐run villagization sites (Hana), where families were forcibly resettled 6–18 months earlier to…
Poverty and Wealth without a Ladder? An Appraisal of the Stages of Progress Method among Agro-Pastoralists in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley
Is it possible to measure wealth and poverty across settings while being faithful to local understandings? The stages of progress method (SoP) attempts to do this by building ladders of wealth in locally relevant terms and using these in comparisons across groups. This approach is potentially useful among pastoralist populations where monetary income and standard asset inventories may be misleading, and where people are discriminated against by t…
Controversy Over Tongue-Tie
While recent decades have seen a rapid rise in cases of infant tongue-tie and in surgery to correct it, a controversy is now raging over the condition. Opinion is especially divided over so-called posterior tongue-tie, a variant which is detected based on the "feel" of the sub-lingual space. Drawing on ethnographic research with clinicians in England, we clarify the professional and personal commitments involved in the controversy. Our analysis i…
Ethiopia’s ‘Blue Oil’?
“I Want Variety!”
It has long been observed that people all over the world prefer to increase the variety of their diets whenever that option is available. We know very little, however, about why people might seek greater dietary variety. This basic question has implications for how we conceive of and measure food insecurity because food insecurity assessments usually include the measurement of access to dietary variety. In this paper, we use qualitative data from…
Pipe Dreams
Ethiopia's lower Omo valley is currently undergoing profound changes, due in part to water development interventions. The state and corporate partners are implementing large dam and irrigation schemes; missionaries are attempting to install safe water supplies. We explore the reception of these projects by local people, and their implications for intergroup relations. Water development schemes, we argue, function as technologies of the imaginatio…
Social-ecological change in the Omo-Turkana basin
This paper synthesizes current knowledge on the impacts of the Gibe III dam and associated large-scale commercial farming in the Omo-Turkana Basin, based on an expert elicitation coupled with a scoping review and the collective knowledge of an multidisciplinary network of researchers with active data-collection programs in the Basin. We use social-ecological systems and political ecology frameworks to assess the impacts of these interventions on …
Malnutrition
Malnutrition, the excess or insufficiency of macro or micronutrients, has long been studied by both cultural and biological anthropologists. Anthropologists treat malnutrition as one indicator of the wellbeing of individuals, communities, and of all humanity. Common themes in the anthropology of malnutrition are the sociocultural determinants of malnutrition, the relationship between body shape and health, the relationship between subsistence mod…
"Do Our Bodies Know Their Ways?" Villagization, Food Insecurity, and Ill-Being in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley
This article investigates food security and well-being in the context of "development-forced displacement" in Ethiopia. In the lower Omo, a large hydroelectric dam and plantation schemes have forced people to cede communal lands to the state and business speculators, and indigenous communities have been targeted for resettlement in new consolidated villages. The authors carried out a food access survey in new villages and in communities not yet s…
R obert a. L e V ine , S ara E. L e V ine , B eatrice S chnell ‐A nzola , M eredith L. R owe, and E mily D exter , Literacy and Mothering
Rapidly rising food prices and the experience of food insecurity in urban Ethiopia
The rise in food prices since 2007 is widely recognized as signaling a crisis of food insecurity among the world's poor. Scholars sought to chart the impacts of the crisis on food insecurity by conducting simulation studies, assessing anthropometric outcomes, and evaluating shifts in experience-based measures of food security. Few studies, however, have investigated the broader impacts on those most vulnerable and how rapid rises in food prices p…
Water insecurity in 3 dimensions
Water insecurity is a primary underlying determinant of global health disparities. While public health research on water insecurity has focused mainly on two dimensions, water access and adequacy, an anthropological perspective highlights the cultural or lifestyle dimension of water insecurity, and its implications for access/adequacy and for the phenomenology of water insecurity. Recent work in Bolivia has shown that scores on a water insecurity…
Water insecurity in 3 dimensions
Water insecurity is a primary underlying determinant of global health disparities. While public health research on water insecurity has focused mainly on two dimensions, water access and adequacy, an anthropological perspective highlights the cultural or lifestyle dimension of water insecurity, and its implications for access/adequacy and for the phenomenology of water insecurity. Recent work in Bolivia has shown that scores on a water insecurity…
Rapidly rising food prices and the experience of food insecurity in urban Ethiopia
The rise in food prices since 2007 is widely recognized as signaling a crisis of food insecurity among the world's poor. Scholars sought to chart the impacts of the crisis on food insecurity by conducting simulation studies, assessing anthropometric outcomes, and evaluating shifts in experience-based measures of food security. Few studies, however, have investigated the broader impacts on those most vulnerable and how rapid rises in food prices p…
"Do Our Bodies Know Their Ways?" Villagization, Food Insecurity, and Ill-Being in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley
This article investigates food security and well-being in the context of "development-forced displacement" in Ethiopia. In the lower Omo, a large hydroelectric dam and plantation schemes have forced people to cede communal lands to the state and business speculators, and indigenous communities have been targeted for resettlement in new consolidated villages. The authors carried out a food access survey in new villages and in communities not yet s…
Social-ecological change in the Omo-Turkana basin
This paper synthesizes current knowledge on the impacts of the Gibe III dam and associated large-scale commercial farming in the Omo-Turkana Basin, based on an expert elicitation coupled with a scoping review and the collective knowledge of an multidisciplinary network of researchers with active data-collection programs in the Basin. We use social-ecological systems and political ecology frameworks to assess the impacts of these interventions on …
Pipe Dreams
Ethiopia's lower Omo valley is currently undergoing profound changes, due in part to water development interventions. The state and corporate partners are implementing large dam and irrigation schemes; missionaries are attempting to install safe water supplies. We explore the reception of these projects by local people, and their implications for intergroup relations. Water development schemes, we argue, function as technologies of the imaginatio…
R obert a. L e V ine , S ara E. L e V ine , B eatrice S chnell ‐A nzola , M eredith L. R owe, and E mily D exter , Literacy and Mothering
Rapidly rising food prices and the experience of food insecurity in urban Ethiopia
The rise in food prices since 2007 is widely recognized as signaling a crisis of food insecurity among the world's poor. Scholars sought to chart the impacts of the crisis on food insecurity by conducting simulation studies, assessing anthropometric outcomes, and evaluating shifts in experience-based measures of food security. Few studies, however, have investigated the broader impacts on those most vulnerable and how rapid rises in food prices p…
Water insecurity in 3 dimensions
Water insecurity is a primary underlying determinant of global health disparities. While public health research on water insecurity has focused mainly on two dimensions, water access and adequacy, an anthropological perspective highlights the cultural or lifestyle dimension of water insecurity, and its implications for access/adequacy and for the phenomenology of water insecurity. Recent work in Bolivia has shown that scores on a water insecurity…
Malnutrition
Malnutrition, the excess or insufficiency of macro or micronutrients, has long been studied by both cultural and biological anthropologists. Anthropologists treat malnutrition as one indicator of the wellbeing of individuals, communities, and of all humanity. Common themes in the anthropology of malnutrition are the sociocultural determinants of malnutrition, the relationship between body shape and health, the relationship between subsistence mod…
"Do Our Bodies Know Their Ways?" Villagization, Food Insecurity, and Ill-Being in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley
This article investigates food security and well-being in the context of "development-forced displacement" in Ethiopia. In the lower Omo, a large hydroelectric dam and plantation schemes have forced people to cede communal lands to the state and business speculators, and indigenous communities have been targeted for resettlement in new consolidated villages. The authors carried out a food access survey in new villages and in communities not yet s…
“I Want Variety!”
It has long been observed that people all over the world prefer to increase the variety of their diets whenever that option is available. We know very little, however, about why people might seek greater dietary variety. This basic question has implications for how we conceive of and measure food insecurity because food insecurity assessments usually include the measurement of access to dietary variety. In this paper, we use qualitative data from…
Pipe Dreams
Ethiopia's lower Omo valley is currently undergoing profound changes, due in part to water development interventions. The state and corporate partners are implementing large dam and irrigation schemes; missionaries are attempting to install safe water supplies. We explore the reception of these projects by local people, and their implications for intergroup relations. Water development schemes, we argue, function as technologies of the imaginatio…
Social-ecological change in the Omo-Turkana basin
This paper synthesizes current knowledge on the impacts of the Gibe III dam and associated large-scale commercial farming in the Omo-Turkana Basin, based on an expert elicitation coupled with a scoping review and the collective knowledge of an multidisciplinary network of researchers with active data-collection programs in the Basin. We use social-ecological systems and political ecology frameworks to assess the impacts of these interventions on …
Ethiopia’s ‘Blue Oil’?
Controversy Over Tongue-Tie
While recent decades have seen a rapid rise in cases of infant tongue-tie and in surgery to correct it, a controversy is now raging over the condition. Opinion is especially divided over so-called posterior tongue-tie, a variant which is detected based on the "feel" of the sub-lingual space. Drawing on ethnographic research with clinicians in England, we clarify the professional and personal commitments involved in the controversy. Our analysis i…
Sedentarization and Child Health
Objectives This study evaluates differences in the nutritional status of children under 5 years old among the Bodi (Mela) of southwest Ethiopia, in the context of a sedentarization program which involved resettlement of pastoralist families in government‐designed villages (villagization sites). Methods Data were collected in 2013 from two settings: state‐run villagization sites (Hana), where families were forcibly resettled 6–18 months earlier to…
Poverty and Wealth without a Ladder? An Appraisal of the Stages of Progress Method among Agro-Pastoralists in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley
Is it possible to measure wealth and poverty across settings while being faithful to local understandings? The stages of progress method (SoP) attempts to do this by building ladders of wealth in locally relevant terms and using these in comparisons across groups. This approach is potentially useful among pastoralist populations where monetary income and standard asset inventories may be misleading, and where people are discriminated against by t…
Geography (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works)