Civilizing' the pastoral frontier
Land grabbing, dispossession and coercive agrarian development in Ethiopia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2157392 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Asebe Regassa (0000-0002-9126-9253, Dilla University), Yetebarek Hizekiel (Dilla University), Yetebarek Hizekeal Zekareas (Dilla University), B Korf (0000-0002-4836-9929, University of Zurich, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 935-955 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03066150.2017.1420060 |
| OpenAlex | W2790578134 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 62 |
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 by corporate investors. It is argued that frontier imaginations of pastoral lowlands legitimate coercive practices of 'emptying' the lowlands for investments. 'Improvement schemes' enroll private investors and enterprises affiliated with Ethiopia's ruling party in the politics of 'thickening' state presence in the pastoral frontier. Agricultural extension packages serve to expand state control over sedentarized pastoralists and make lowland resources more extractable, for investors and for the ruling regime
Agrarian reform · Agrarian society · Agriculture · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Frontier · Geography · Land grabbing · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Land Rights and Reforms · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Beyond ethnic federalism. Agrarian relations, land registration and conflict on the Ethiopian coffee frontier
Local governance, EPRDF rule and peasants in Oromia National Regional State, Ethiopia
The Politics of Transnational Advocacy Against Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian Extractive Projects in the Global South
At the edge of the sword
A framework for understanding land control transfer in agricultural commodity frontiers
Conservation Trapped in Ethno-regional Politics
Environmental (in)justices of land leases in Ethiopia
Situating extraction in capitalism
Frontiers of Extraction and Contestation
Embracing uncertainty
A pragmatic high modernism? rural development and state building in the Ethiopian lowlands, c. 1960–2019
Debate on the linkages between large-scale agriculture and farmers food security
Environmental associated emotional distress and the dangers of climate change for pastoralist mental health
Introduction to Special Section
Climate Change Policy Narratives and Pastoralism in Ethiopia
Interrogating Dispossession for Development in Ethiopia
Coordination work – Tuning and timing rice production in Burkina Faso
Fair compensation in large-scale land acquisitions
Farmland investments in Tanzania
Impacts of land leases in Oromia, Ethiopia
Large-scale agricultural investment in Ethiopia
Large-scale land investments and land-use conflicts in the agro-pastoral areas of Ethiopia
Understanding ‘night grazing’
From Khalisa Sarkar land to land reforms
Contestation, conflict and claims-making around the Lake Turkana Wind Power windfarm, northern Kenya
Dream brokers” and the moral economy of frontier investments
Emerging migrant workers and aspiring capitalist farmers in the aftermath of the land rush in Ethiopia
Cross-border seasonal migrant labour and agricultural commodity production in the Ethiopia–Sudan borderlands
The road (not) taken
Frontiers' violence
One size fits all
Mother Earth is for us all
State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry
Post-imperial statecraft
Governing after Farc
Interstitial pastoralism at the economic frontier of Kenya's Central Rift Valley
Deception and default in a global marketplace
Development, governmentality and the sedentary state
Pastoralists and peasants
Growing farmer-herder conflicts in Tanzania
Capital, labor, and gender
The Ethiopians
Land in African agrarian systems
A history of modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991
The Will to Improve
The New Imperial Order
Anthropology in the margins of the state
Europe and the people without history
States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control
Aid and authoritarianism in Africa
The Mursi and the Elephant Question
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
Der Nomos der Erde im Völkerrecht des Jus Publicum Europaeum
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
Friction
Decentralization and agrarian transformation in Ethiopia
Improving their lives’
Ethiopian development
Pathways and Dead Ends of Pastoral Development among the Afar and Karrayu in Ethiopia
Food production strategy debates in revolutionary Ethiopia
Making Concessions
Policy-driven Inter-ethnic Conflicts in Southern Ethiopia
Land to the foreigners’
The New Enclosures? Polanyi, international investment law and the global land rush
State Building, Rural Development, and the Making of a Frontier Regime in Northeastern Ethiopia, C. 1944–75
The impact of agricultural investments on state capacity
Space for Everything (A Commentary)
The perils of development from above
Be like bees - the politics of mobilizing farmers for development in Tigray, Ethiopia
Mistakes, Crises, and Research Independence
What is land? Assembling a resource for global investment
Agamben in the Ogaden
Resource Triumphalism
Free market economy, 'developmental state' and party-state hegemony in Ethiopia
Agricultural Investment in Ethiopia
Seeing Like an Oil Company
Development by Dispossession
Land Registration and Gender Equality in Ethiopia
Planning for Agricultural Change and Economic Transformation in Tanzania
Transnational Farmland Investment
The Return of the State
Persistent Stasis in a Tributary Mode of Production
The Kuraz Sugar Development Project (KSDP) in Ethiopia
Frontier transformations
The land does not like them
A view of abureaucraticdevelopmental state
Primary identities in the lower Omo valley
Place-making, participative archaeologies and Mursi megaliths
Plato on the Omo
Wilderness, wasteland or home? Three ways of imagining the Lower Omo Valley
Re-spacing African drylands
Frontier constellations
Looking back to see forward
Patterns of agrarian transformation in Ethiopia
Power and property
Land grab' as development strategy? The political economy of agricultural investment in Ethiopia
New frontiers of land control
Decentralization and the Local Developmental State
| Unique citing works | 41 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 40 |