This pasture is ours since ancient times
An ethnographic analysis of the reduction in conflicts along the post-1991 Afar-Tigray regional boundary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4253207 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lutgart Lenaerts (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, corresponding author), Mark Breusers (Norwegian University of Life Sciences), Stefaan Dondeyne (0000-0002-7422-7860, Norwegian University of Life Sciences), Hans Bauer (0000-0001-5031-5842, Norwegian University of Life Sciences), Mitiku Haile (0000-0002-9565-5805), Mitiku Tefera (0000-0001-7787-6949, Norwegian University of Life Sciences), Jozef Deckers (Norwegian University of Life Sciences) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-44 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x13000797 |
| OpenAlex | W2124579408 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 33 |
The role of post-1991 ethnic-based federalism on conflicts along regional boundaries has been a topic of great dispute in Ethiopianist literature. This article sheds new light on the on-going debate based on original ethnographic material from the Afar-Tigray regional border zone. Contrary to other studies, conflicts appear to have reduced in that area. Two key questions are addressed: how do different groups lay future claims to land; and which role does the post-1991 government play in those claims to land and in reducing conflicts? The case study reveals that people materialise religion to lay future claims to land and that conflicts have reduced with increased involvement of the state over the past two decades, but that this reduction has come at a high cost and may therefore not be sustainable in the long term
Archaeology · Boundary (topology) · Development economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Federalism · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · African history and culture analysis · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
From “Subject to Citizen”? History, Identity and Minority Citizenship
Constitutionalism in transition period Ethiopia
Institutions and Pastoralist Conflicts in Africa
State, Governance and the Creation of Small Towns in Ethiopia
Transhumance as a driving force of landscape change in the marginal grabens of northern Ethiopia
Administrative and ethno-linguistic boundaries of Western Tigray (Ethiopia) since 1683
Facing conservation' or 'conservation with a human face'? People-park interactions in southern Ethiopia
African Agrarian Systems
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
The Extended-case Method and Situational Analysis
Livelihood Transitions and the Changing Nature of Farmer–Herder Conflict in Sahelian West Africa
Informal institutions as mechanisms to address challenges in communal grazing land management in Tigray, Ethiopia
Beyond “Culture”
Governing violence in the pastoralist space
Transhumance in the Tigray Highlands (Ethiopia)
Maps, Metaphors, and Meanings
Maps, Metaphors, and Meanings
African boundaries
Concluding Comments
Federal Restructuring in Ethiopia
Along Ethiopia's western frontier
Ethnic Conflict in the 'Tribal Zone
Twilight Institutions
The Kilosa Killings
Seeing Like a State
Ethnicity
Rebounding Nationalism
Redrawing the Map of the Horn
Crossing Borders and Transgressing Boundaries
Subaltern Struggles and the Politics of Place
The Country and the City on the Copperbelt
This is Ghanaian territory
We are the border
Two cases of ethnography
Overlapping nationalist projects and contested spaces
Ethnic-based federalism and ethnicity in Ethiopia
The politics of cultural pluralism in Ethiopia and Eritrea
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |