Self‐Administration Units or Camps? Scrutinizing the Ethiopian Sub‐Federal Arrangements
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6306390 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alazar Melkamu Bayou (0000-0001-9422-4352, Addis Ababa University Institute for Peace and Security Studies Addis Ababa Ethiopia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1052-1062 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nations and Nationalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1345-5078 • E-ISSN: 1469-8129 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/nana.13111 |
| OpenAlex | W4409307746 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 50 |
This article aims to show how the Ethiopian ethnofederation, rather than stabilizing the country, has resulted in a web of problems that are shaking the state to its core. Most importantly, how it is putting citizens, especially those regarded as non‐indigenous, in dire situations, by taking its sub‐federal arrangements or self‐administration units by using the concept of ‘camp’ Agamben elaborated in his different works. It is believed that these self‐administration units are very important foundations of the Ethiopian federal system, as they allow previously overlooked identities in guaranteeing equality. Moreover, they are understood as the manifestation of the right to self‐determination of the nations, nationalities and peoples of the country. However, the article argues that these units have turned into geographical spaces and locations or camps whereby biopolitical subjects are produced. The article used the large number of Amhara people dispersed throughout the federation and are politically as well as economically disenfranchised; referred to as using derogatory nomenclatures; and also constantly targeted, attacked, killed and displaced, as a case. To do so, the article mainly used secondary sources to collect data: different reports from various sources were collected and analysed
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Define and Rule
From Voting to Violence
The State of Exception
“It Only Reopens Old Wounds”
Is Federalism the Source of Ethnic Identity-Based Conflict in Ethiopia
The Culture of Exception
Nationalism Reframed
Homo Sacer
Federalism, Local Government and Minority Protection in Ethiopia
Bare Sovereignty
Giorgio Agamben on Security, Government and the Crisis of Law
Ethiopia
Ethnic federalism and its potential to dismember the Ethiopian state
The Paradox of Federalism
Zones of Indistinction
Zones of Indistinction
Ethiopia
Sovereign Power, Zones of Indistinction, and the Camp
Ethnicity and Conflict Generation in Ethiopia
Ethnofederalism
Regionalism and democracy in Ethiopia
Giorgio agamben and the spatialities of the camp
Nationalism and self‐determination in contemporary Ethiopia
Divided We Stand
Potentialities of human rights
Agamben's Political Paradigm of the Camp
One country – two citizenships
Amhara nationalism
The Dispositif between Foucault and Agamben
Impossible Dialogue on Bio-power
Who Is the Subject of the Rights of Man
Homo Sacer
Constitution for a Nation of Nations
The Tragedy of Colonialism in a Non-Colonised Society
Political Transition and the Rise of Amhara Nationalism in Ethiopia
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