Local war and its impact on ethnic and religious identification in Southern Ethiopia

Schlee, Günther; Shongolo, Abdullahi A.

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“…Different Somali clan lineages attempted to expand and demarcate their home territories, as these claims to territory translated into political power at the level of the regional government. The institutional reconfigurations brought about by ethnic federalism led to the firmer marking of boundaries between different clan families in Ethiopia's Somali region -boundaries that, historically, had been left blurred and negotiable (Schlee and Shongolo 1995;Hagmann and Mulugeta 2008;Kefale 2010).…”

Section: Governing Land and People In The Ethio-somali Lowlandsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-spacing African drylands: territorialization, sedentarization and indigenous commodification in the Ethiopian pastoral frontier

Korf

Hagmann²,

Emmenegger

2015

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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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 capital, but by indigenous merchants who capture the frontier's potential resource dividend. Land appropriation in the drylands is coproduced by political claims to territory, capital investment and new technopolitics through which indigenous (pastoral, Somali) merchants and politicians become complicit with the state's project of territorialization and sedentarization in a selfgoverning fashion. The irony of this situation is that the (Ethiopian) state has failed to consolidate sedentarization through planned interventions. Instead, capital investment by local and transnational Somali merchants has opened up a neoliberal frontier that respaces drylands towards increasing sedentarization.

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Section: Governing Land and People In The Ethio-somali Lowlandsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-spacing African drylands: territorialization, sedentarization and indigenous commodification in the Ethiopian pastoral frontier

Korf

Hagmann²,

Emmenegger

2015

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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“…Abandoning their nomadic lifestyle and becoming sedentary farmers, the Somali were assimilated with the existing Oromo population, an amalgamation which led to the birth of a group known as the Warra Qallu. The Sheikhal is still considered to have certain religious qualities (Braukämper 2002: 111;Lewis 1998: 15, 17;Schlee 1998: 139;Schlee and Abdullahi A. Shongolo 1995). trade links remained in contact with their co-religionists in the town. 35 More decisive, however, were the contacts with the Harari community of the town Harar, where intermarriages and political alliances contributed to the conversion of the rural Oromo elite in Hararge (Waldron 1984: 32).…”

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“…3 The idea of Waaqa as the sustainer of all life in the sense of upholding a cosmic order remained integrated within an Islamic framework. 4 The process of Islamisation never involved the surrender of one's identity, like "becoming" Somali or assuming other ethnic categories, which has more been the case of Borana converting to Islam (Schlee 1994b;Schlee and Abdullahi A. Shongolo 1995). It certainly did, to some degree, but there followed a development of the term Islaama.…”

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Localising Salafism

Østebø¹

2012

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Brill's Islam in Africa is designed to present the results of scholarly research into the many aspects of the history and present-day features of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa. The series will take up issues of religious and intellectual traditions, social significance and organization, and other aspects of the Islamic presence in Africa. It includes monographs, collaborative volumes and reference works by researchers from all relevant disciplines.

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“…Violence among pastoralists has for a long time been associated with primordial group identities or natural resource scarcity. However, recent work demonstrates that contemporary pastoral conflicts in Ethiopia are strongly linked to ongoing processes of state expansion in the framework of ethnically defined federalism (Markakis 1994, Schlee & Shongolo 1995, Turton 2006). As we have argued elsewhere, post-1991 administrative decentralization has politicized kinship relations, reconfigured spatial relations between pastoral groups and their territory, and co-opted customary authorities and peacemaking (Hagmann & Mulugeta 2008).…”

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Governing violence in the pastoralist space: Karrayu and state notions of cattle raiding in the Ethiopian Awash Valley

Mulugeta

Hagmann²

2008

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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 inter-ethnic cattle raids, highlight the incomplete nature of state expansion into the Karrayu pastoralist space, and scrutinize the ambiguities of government and community peacemaking. Key words: cattle raiding, pastoralism, conflict resolution, governance, Karrayu, Ethiopia

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Local war and its impact on ethnic and religious identification in Southern Ethiopia

Cited by 33 publications

References 2 publications

Re-spacing African drylands: territorialization, sedentarization and indigenous commodification in the Ethiopian pastoral frontier

Re-spacing African drylands: territorialization, sedentarization and indigenous commodification in the Ethiopian pastoral frontier

Localising Salafism

Governing violence in the pastoralist space: Karrayu and state notions of cattle raiding in the Ethiopian Awash Valley

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