Tobias Hagmann
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 77846 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tobias Hagmann |
| PRENOMES | Tobias |
| SOBRENOME | Hagmann |
| ASSINATURA | HAGMANN T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1745-2938 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 476 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Trade Makes States
Archiving violence
Préserver les preuves liées aux graves violations des droits de l’homme est une stratégie clé pour atteindre la responsabilité et pour commémorer les injustices passées en vue de transformer les sociétés. Au cours des dernières décennies, de nombreuses commissions de vérité et de réconciliation, des organisations de la société civile et des organismes gouvernementaux ont documenté les violations des droits de la personne commises dans le cadre de…
Brokerage in the borderlands
This article argues that brokers are key actors in the cross-border livestock trade between Kenya and Somalia, where formal regulations are weak or absent. We elucidate the economic and social rationales for livestock brokerage as well as a series of brokering practices taking place at the intersection of profit making, kinship and trust. Besides producing social capital based on trust, brokers facilitate the formalization of livestock trading by…
Revenues on the hoof
This article considers the relationship between livestock taxation and local state formation dynamics in the northern Somali territories. While the economic importance of livestock in Somalia is undisputed, its significance as a source of revenue and legitimacy for public administrations and competing state-building projects has been overlooked. Drawing on fieldwork in Somaliland’s main livestock markets and the Berbera corridor, we highlight the…
Politics of circulation
This article explores the co-production of political order and circulation in what today is known as Berbera corridor, a trade and transport corridor that connects landlocked Ethiopia and Berbera Port in the breakaway Republic of Somaliland. We analyse the 'politics of circulation' that are set in motion by the articulation of different projects of making goods circulate and capturing revenue from circulation. Such politics involve a plurality of…
Violence in African Elections
Multiparty elections have become the bellwether by which all democracies are judged, and the spread of these systems across Africa has been widely hailed as a sign of the continent's progress towards stability and prosperity. But such elections bring their own challenges, particularly the often intense internecine violence following disputed results
Aid and authoritarianism in Africa
“In 2013 almost half of Africa’s top aid recipients were ruled by authoritarian regimes. While the West may claim to promote democracy and human rights, in practice major bilateral and international donors, such as USAID, DFID, the World Bank and the European Commission, have seen their aid policies become ever more entangled with the survival of their authoritarian protégés. Local citizens thus find themselves at the receiving end of a compromis…
Property and political order in Africa
Boone's third book on rural African political economy is an outstanding contribution to the study of contemporary African politics. Admittedly, none of the arguments offered are entirely new. Some of the chapters are repetitive and others suffer from convoluted writing, for instance when the author argues that ‘patterned variation in rural outcomes is attributable to the structuring effects of rural institutions’ (p. 20). Besides these minor impe…
Re-spacing African drylands
This paper traces the re-spacing of pastoral drylands in Africa. We argue that rendering pastoral resources legible and profitable occurs both within and beyond the state. Through a multi-sited case study from Ethiopia's Somali region, we excavate different mechanisms of sedentarization, whereby processes of state territorialization and indigenous commodification become mutually entangled. Sedentarization is not imposed by the state or corporate …
Punishing the periphery
This article scrutinizes dynamics and legacies of state violence by the imperial and current government against civilians in the Ethiopian Ogaden, between 1960 and 2010. While conflict dynamics in eastern Ethiopia underwent significant changes in the past half-century, successive counterinsurgency campaigns employed strikingly similar military tactics against local communities. Combining historical accounts with oral testimonies collected among v…
Warfare in Independent Africa
Warfare in Independent Africa is Reno’s bold attempt to analyze the modern history of African insurgencies. The book tackles this task through the prism of five generations of rebel, which left their mark on the continent; anti-colonial rebels, majority rule rebels, reform rebels, warlord rebels and parochial rebels
Reconfiguring Ethiopia
Agamben in the Ogaden
African Customs in Neoliberal Times
Decentralization to the household
This article sheds light on the impacts and dynamics of the latest decentralization phase in Ethiopia, which seeks to professionalize and democratize local government. Based on recent field research in Oromiya Region, we draw attention to the paradoxes inherent in the top-down decentralization of public administration within an authoritarian one-party state. On the one hand, decentralization in Oromiya has empowered kebele administrations and fac…
Twenty years of revolutionary democratic Ethiopia, 1991 to 2011
This paper introduces a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies devoted to a review of Ethiopia's 20 years of "revolutionary democracy". The collection brings together 11 articles exploring differing aspects of Ethiopia's political experience since 1991. This introduction begins with a short summary of these 11 papers, but then moves to a substantive review of Ethiopia's political history over the past two decades, featuring consi…
New Avenues for Pastoral Development in sub-Saharan Africa
The Geography of Warscape
This article elaborates a heuristic approach to understanding the geography of warscape from a theoretically informed perspective. It argues that agency in protracted civil war emerges at the ambiguous interface of different, competing systems of power and authority. In order to account for the multiple trajectories of threat and opportunity that warscapes offer to different social actors and at different times and places, the article proposes th…
War and the Politics of Identity in Ethiopia
Observers of the Horn of Africa are regularly puzzled by the often shifting alliances that materialize among regional power holders. While the dictum ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’ is often cited as an explanation, War and the Politics of Identity in Ethiopia expounds the highly complex processes that determine the (un-)making of friends and foes. Drawing on fieldwork in the Tigrayan-speaking highlands of Ethiopia (and earlier research in E…
Negotiating Statehood
This article, which forms the introduction to a collection of studies, focuses on processes of state construction and deconstruction in contemporary Africa. Its objective is to better understand how local, national and transnational actors forge and remake the state through processes of negotiation, contestation and bricolage. Following a critique of the predominant state failure literature and its normative and analytical shortcomings, the autho…
Failures of the state failure debate
Much of the current literature on state failure and collapse suffers from serious conceptual flaws. It ignores the variegated types of empirical statehood that exist on the ground, it conflates the absence of a central government with anarchy, it creates an unhelpful distinction between ‘accomplished’ and ‘failed’ states, and it is guided by a teleological belief in the convergence of all nation‐states. Particularly African states figure prominen…
Civilian peacebuilding
This article draws attention to the shortcomings of civilian peacebuilding, which donors, aid agencies and NGOs have adopted in their policies and projects in recent years. It argues that government-sponsored peacebuilding propagates a conception according to which peace can be achieved by bureaucratic means. Although peacebuilding is committed to what peace research considers positive peace, its discourses and practices tend to depoliticise peac…
Governing violence in the pastoralist space
Based on recent fieldwork this article examines how cattle raids involving Karrayu pastoralists are governed by the local administration and customary authorities in Ethiopia’s Upper and Middle Awash Valley. It argues that the regulation of violent conflicts in areas marked by weak state presence and legitimacy must be understood as a function of multiple social orders, actors and norms. The authors draw attention to the evolving rationales of in…
Anthropology and Development
Bringing the Sultan Back In
In many African societies, elders play a crucial role in managing public affairs in their community, both with and in the absence of formal state recognition. Elders assume the most varied tasks in safeguarding the social, political, economic, cultural, religious, and spiritual welfare of the people they (claim to) represent. Yet if we are to believe van Nieuwaal and van Dijk (1999: 9) “there is one aspect of chiefing for which no shortcuts exist…
Negotiating Statehood
This article, which forms the introduction to a collection of studies, focuses on processes of state construction and deconstruction in contemporary Africa. Its objective is to better understand how local, national and transnational actors forge and remake the state through processes of negotiation, contestation and bricolage. Following a critique of the predominant state failure literature and its normative and analytical shortcomings, the autho…
Re-spacing African drylands
This paper traces the re-spacing of pastoral drylands in Africa. We argue that rendering pastoral resources legible and profitable occurs both within and beyond the state. Through a multi-sited case study from Ethiopia's Somali region, we excavate different mechanisms of sedentarization, whereby processes of state territorialization and indigenous commodification become mutually entangled. Sedentarization is not imposed by the state or corporate …
Beyond clannishness and colonialism
This article proposes an alternative interpretation of political disorder in Ethiopia's Somali Regional State since the rise to power of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) in 1991. Some observers have perceived contemporary politics in the former Ogaden as an example of 'internal colonisation' by highland Ethiopians. Others attribute political instability to the 'nomadic culture' inherent in the Somali clan structure an…
Agamben in the Ogaden
Twenty years of revolutionary democratic Ethiopia, 1991 to 2011
This paper introduces a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies devoted to a review of Ethiopia's 20 years of "revolutionary democracy". The collection brings together 11 articles exploring differing aspects of Ethiopia's political experience since 1991. This introduction begins with a short summary of these 11 papers, but then moves to a substantive review of Ethiopia's political history over the past two decades, featuring consi…
Politics of circulation
This article explores the co-production of political order and circulation in what today is known as Berbera corridor, a trade and transport corridor that connects landlocked Ethiopia and Berbera Port in the breakaway Republic of Somaliland. We analyse the 'politics of circulation' that are set in motion by the articulation of different projects of making goods circulate and capturing revenue from circulation. Such politics involve a plurality of…
The Geography of Warscape
This article elaborates a heuristic approach to understanding the geography of warscape from a theoretically informed perspective. It argues that agency in protracted civil war emerges at the ambiguous interface of different, competing systems of power and authority. In order to account for the multiple trajectories of threat and opportunity that warscapes offer to different social actors and at different times and places, the article proposes th…
Decentralization to the household
This article sheds light on the impacts and dynamics of the latest decentralization phase in Ethiopia, which seeks to professionalize and democratize local government. Based on recent field research in Oromiya Region, we draw attention to the paradoxes inherent in the top-down decentralization of public administration within an authoritarian one-party state. On the one hand, decentralization in Oromiya has empowered kebele administrations and fac…
Violence in African Elections
Multiparty elections have become the bellwether by which all democracies are judged, and the spread of these systems across Africa has been widely hailed as a sign of the continent's progress towards stability and prosperity. But such elections bring their own challenges, particularly the often intense internecine violence following disputed results
Punishing the periphery
This article scrutinizes dynamics and legacies of state violence by the imperial and current government against civilians in the Ethiopian Ogaden, between 1960 and 2010. While conflict dynamics in eastern Ethiopia underwent significant changes in the past half-century, successive counterinsurgency campaigns employed strikingly similar military tactics against local communities. Combining historical accounts with oral testimonies collected among v…
Civilian peacebuilding
This article draws attention to the shortcomings of civilian peacebuilding, which donors, aid agencies and NGOs have adopted in their policies and projects in recent years. It argues that government-sponsored peacebuilding propagates a conception according to which peace can be achieved by bureaucratic means. Although peacebuilding is committed to what peace research considers positive peace, its discourses and practices tend to depoliticise peac…
From state collapse to duty-free shop
Journal Article From state collapse to duty-free shop: Somalia’s path to modernity Get access Tobias Hagmann Tobias Hagmann Researcher at the Swiss Peace Foundation in Bern, and a doctoral student at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, University of Lausanne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 104, Issue 416, July 2005, Pages 525–535, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi049…
Brokerage in the borderlands
This article argues that brokers are key actors in the cross-border livestock trade between Kenya and Somalia, where formal regulations are weak or absent. We elucidate the economic and social rationales for livestock brokerage as well as a series of brokering practices taking place at the intersection of profit making, kinship and trust. Besides producing social capital based on trust, brokers facilitate the formalization of livestock trading by…
Revenues on the hoof
This article considers the relationship between livestock taxation and local state formation dynamics in the northern Somali territories. While the economic importance of livestock in Somalia is undisputed, its significance as a source of revenue and legitimacy for public administrations and competing state-building projects has been overlooked. Drawing on fieldwork in Somaliland’s main livestock markets and the Berbera corridor, we highlight the…
Ethiopian political culture strikes back
In his article on the May 2005 Ethiopian parliamentary elections, J. Abbink sets out to explain ‘why the political system has stagnated and slid back into authoritarianism’.1 According to Abbink, the 2005 elections and their aftermath have led to the resurgence of an Ethiopian ‘authoritarian political tradition’ (p. 173). The driving factor behind this, so he argues, is the ‘patrimonialized system’ (p. 177) in which power holders treat the countr…
New Avenues for Pastoral Development in sub-Saharan Africa
La Région Somali d'Éthiopie
Avec l'introduction du « fédéralisme ethnique » par le Front démocratique révolutionnaire du peuple éthiopien, les Somali bénéficient enfin d'une autonomie au sein de l'Éthiopie orientale. Quinze ans après la fin du Derg, l'identité éthiopienne-somali est toujours disputée et la question de l'autodétermination loin d'être résolue. Les habitants de la Région Somali sont tiraillés entre trois options : l'intégration à l'Éthiopie, l'indépendance sur…
From state collapse to duty-free shop
Journal Article From state collapse to duty-free shop: Somalia’s path to modernity Get access Tobias Hagmann Tobias Hagmann Researcher at the Swiss Peace Foundation in Bern, and a doctoral student at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, University of Lausanne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 104, Issue 416, July 2005, Pages 525–535, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi049…
La Région Somali d'Éthiopie
Avec l'introduction du « fédéralisme ethnique » par le Front démocratique révolutionnaire du peuple éthiopien, les Somali bénéficient enfin d'une autonomie au sein de l'Éthiopie orientale. Quinze ans après la fin du Derg, l'identité éthiopienne-somali est toujours disputée et la question de l'autodétermination loin d'être résolue. Les habitants de la Région Somali sont tiraillés entre trois options : l'intégration à l'Éthiopie, l'indépendance sur…
Beyond clannishness and colonialism
This article proposes an alternative interpretation of political disorder in Ethiopia's Somali Regional State since the rise to power of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) in 1991. Some observers have perceived contemporary politics in the former Ogaden as an example of 'internal colonisation' by highland Ethiopians. Others attribute political instability to the 'nomadic culture' inherent in the Somali clan structure an…
Ethiopian political culture strikes back
In his article on the May 2005 Ethiopian parliamentary elections, J. Abbink sets out to explain ‘why the political system has stagnated and slid back into authoritarianism’.1 According to Abbink, the 2005 elections and their aftermath have led to the resurgence of an Ethiopian ‘authoritarian political tradition’ (p. 173). The driving factor behind this, so he argues, is the ‘patrimonialized system’ (p. 177) in which power holders treat the countr…
Bringing the Sultan Back In
In many African societies, elders play a crucial role in managing public affairs in their community, both with and in the absence of formal state recognition. Elders assume the most varied tasks in safeguarding the social, political, economic, cultural, religious, and spiritual welfare of the people they (claim to) represent. Yet if we are to believe van Nieuwaal and van Dijk (1999: 9) “there is one aspect of chiefing for which no shortcuts exist…
Governing violence in the pastoralist space
Based on recent fieldwork this article examines how cattle raids involving Karrayu pastoralists are governed by the local administration and customary authorities in Ethiopia’s Upper and Middle Awash Valley. It argues that the regulation of violent conflicts in areas marked by weak state presence and legitimacy must be understood as a function of multiple social orders, actors and norms. The authors draw attention to the evolving rationales of in…
Anthropology and Development
Failures of the state failure debate
Much of the current literature on state failure and collapse suffers from serious conceptual flaws. It ignores the variegated types of empirical statehood that exist on the ground, it conflates the absence of a central government with anarchy, it creates an unhelpful distinction between ‘accomplished’ and ‘failed’ states, and it is guided by a teleological belief in the convergence of all nation‐states. Particularly African states figure prominen…
Civilian peacebuilding
This article draws attention to the shortcomings of civilian peacebuilding, which donors, aid agencies and NGOs have adopted in their policies and projects in recent years. It argues that government-sponsored peacebuilding propagates a conception according to which peace can be achieved by bureaucratic means. Although peacebuilding is committed to what peace research considers positive peace, its discourses and practices tend to depoliticise peac…
New Avenues for Pastoral Development in sub-Saharan Africa
The Geography of Warscape
This article elaborates a heuristic approach to understanding the geography of warscape from a theoretically informed perspective. It argues that agency in protracted civil war emerges at the ambiguous interface of different, competing systems of power and authority. In order to account for the multiple trajectories of threat and opportunity that warscapes offer to different social actors and at different times and places, the article proposes th…
War and the Politics of Identity in Ethiopia
Observers of the Horn of Africa are regularly puzzled by the often shifting alliances that materialize among regional power holders. While the dictum ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’ is often cited as an explanation, War and the Politics of Identity in Ethiopia expounds the highly complex processes that determine the (un-)making of friends and foes. Drawing on fieldwork in the Tigrayan-speaking highlands of Ethiopia (and earlier research in E…
Negotiating Statehood
This article, which forms the introduction to a collection of studies, focuses on processes of state construction and deconstruction in contemporary Africa. Its objective is to better understand how local, national and transnational actors forge and remake the state through processes of negotiation, contestation and bricolage. Following a critique of the predominant state failure literature and its normative and analytical shortcomings, the autho…
African Customs in Neoliberal Times
Decentralization to the household
This article sheds light on the impacts and dynamics of the latest decentralization phase in Ethiopia, which seeks to professionalize and democratize local government. Based on recent field research in Oromiya Region, we draw attention to the paradoxes inherent in the top-down decentralization of public administration within an authoritarian one-party state. On the one hand, decentralization in Oromiya has empowered kebele administrations and fac…
Twenty years of revolutionary democratic Ethiopia, 1991 to 2011
This paper introduces a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies devoted to a review of Ethiopia's 20 years of "revolutionary democracy". The collection brings together 11 articles exploring differing aspects of Ethiopia's political experience since 1991. This introduction begins with a short summary of these 11 papers, but then moves to a substantive review of Ethiopia's political history over the past two decades, featuring consi…
Agamben in the Ogaden
Warfare in Independent Africa
Warfare in Independent Africa is Reno’s bold attempt to analyze the modern history of African insurgencies. The book tackles this task through the prism of five generations of rebel, which left their mark on the continent; anti-colonial rebels, majority rule rebels, reform rebels, warlord rebels and parochial rebels
Reconfiguring Ethiopia
Punishing the periphery
This article scrutinizes dynamics and legacies of state violence by the imperial and current government against civilians in the Ethiopian Ogaden, between 1960 and 2010. While conflict dynamics in eastern Ethiopia underwent significant changes in the past half-century, successive counterinsurgency campaigns employed strikingly similar military tactics against local communities. Combining historical accounts with oral testimonies collected among v…
Property and political order in Africa
Boone's third book on rural African political economy is an outstanding contribution to the study of contemporary African politics. Admittedly, none of the arguments offered are entirely new. Some of the chapters are repetitive and others suffer from convoluted writing, for instance when the author argues that ‘patterned variation in rural outcomes is attributable to the structuring effects of rural institutions’ (p. 20). Besides these minor impe…
Re-spacing African drylands
This paper traces the re-spacing of pastoral drylands in Africa. We argue that rendering pastoral resources legible and profitable occurs both within and beyond the state. Through a multi-sited case study from Ethiopia's Somali region, we excavate different mechanisms of sedentarization, whereby processes of state territorialization and indigenous commodification become mutually entangled. Sedentarization is not imposed by the state or corporate …
Aid and authoritarianism in Africa
“In 2013 almost half of Africa’s top aid recipients were ruled by authoritarian regimes. While the West may claim to promote democracy and human rights, in practice major bilateral and international donors, such as USAID, DFID, the World Bank and the European Commission, have seen their aid policies become ever more entangled with the survival of their authoritarian protégés. Local citizens thus find themselves at the receiving end of a compromis…
Violence in African Elections
Multiparty elections have become the bellwether by which all democracies are judged, and the spread of these systems across Africa has been widely hailed as a sign of the continent's progress towards stability and prosperity. But such elections bring their own challenges, particularly the often intense internecine violence following disputed results
Politics of circulation
This article explores the co-production of political order and circulation in what today is known as Berbera corridor, a trade and transport corridor that connects landlocked Ethiopia and Berbera Port in the breakaway Republic of Somaliland. We analyse the 'politics of circulation' that are set in motion by the articulation of different projects of making goods circulate and capturing revenue from circulation. Such politics involve a plurality of…
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