Lands of the Future

Echi Christina Gabbert is an anthropologist at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Göttingen University, Germany. She coordinates the Lands of the Future Initiative, that focuses on pastoralism, global investment and local responses in East Africa in the 21rst century.

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Introduction: Futuremaking with Pastoralists

Echi Christina Gabbert



Part I: Setting the Context: Modernity and Citizenship in Pastoral Areas



Chapter 1. Modern Mobility in East Africa: Pastoral Responses to Rangeland Fragmentation, Enclosure and Settlement

John G. Galaty



Chapter 2. Unequal Citizenship and One-Sided Communication: Anthropological Perspectives on Collective Identification in the Context of Large-Scale Land Transfers in Ethiopia

Günther Schlee



Chapter 3. Global Trade, Local Realities: Why African States Undervalue Pastoralism

Peter D. Little



Part II: Contested Identities and Territories: A History of Expropriation



Chapter 4. Modes of Dispossession of Indigenous Lands and Territories in Africa

Elifuraha I. Laltaika and Kelly M. Askew



Chapter 5. Land and the State in Ethiopia

John Markakis



Chapter 6. Persistent Expropriation of Pastoral Lands: The Afar Case

Maknun Ashami and Jean Lydall



Part III: Power, Politics and Reactions to State-Building



Chapter 7. Anatomy of a White Elephant: Investment Failure and Land Conflicts on Ethiopia’s Oromia–Somali Frontier

Jonah Wedekind



Chapter 8. From Cattle Herding to Charcoal Burning: Land Expropriation, State Consolidation and Livelihood Changes in Abaya Valley, Southern Ethiopia

Asebe Regassa



Chapter 9. Villagization in Ethiopia’s Lowlands: Development vs. Facilitating Control and Dispossession

Fana Gebresenbet



Part IV: Underdeveloping South Omo



Chapter 10. ‘Breaking Every Rule in the Book’: The Story of River Basin Development in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley

David Turton



Chapter 11. State-Building in the Ethiopian South-Western Lowlands: Experiencing the Brunt of State Power in Mela

Lucie Buffavand



Chapter 12. Customary Land Use and Local Consent Practices in Mun (Mursi): A New Call for Meaningful FPIC Standards in Southern Ethiopia

Shauna LaTosky



Chapter 13. Ethiopia’s ‘Blue Oil’? Hydropower, Irrigation and Development in the Omo-Turkana Basin

Edward G.J. Stevenson and Benedikt Kamski



Conclusion: Pastoralists for Future

Echi Christina Gabbert, Fana Gebresenbet and Jonah Wedekind



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