Data D. Barata is a professor of anthropology at California State University, Sacramento. His previous books include Contesting Inequalities, Identities, and Rights in Ethiopia.Donald L. Donham is a distinguished research professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He is the coeditor of two previous collections of regional studies focused on earlier periods of Ethiopian experience: The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia and Remapping Ethiopia: Socialism and After.Daniel Mains is Wick Cary Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Under Construction: Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia and Hope Is Cut: Youth, Unemployment, and the Future in Urban Ethiopia.

"If you were to read one book about contemporary Ethiopia, this should be it. These nuanced chapters will deepen the insight on the country today." - Jennifer Riggan, author of The Struggling State: Nationalism, Mass Militarization and the Education of Eritrea

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Post-Marxism, Pentecostalism, and the Future in EthiopiaDonald L. Donham, Data D. Barata, and Daniel MainsPart I. Political and Religious Transformations 1. The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front and the Prosperity Party: A More than Passing Resemblance?Terrence Lyons2. The Return of Religion to Ethiopian Politics in the Post-EPRDF EraDereje Feyissa3. Religious Developments in Ethiopia and the Arrival of Abiy AhmedTerje ØstebøPart II. Changing Center/Periphery Relationships4. Ethnic Mobilization and Remaking the Ethno-Regional State in Post-EPRDF Southern EthiopiaMellese Madda and Data D. Barata 5. Renegotiating Landscapes of Autonomy and Extraction in Somali RegionJuweria Ali and Daniel K. Thompson6. Afar in Post-EPRDF Ethiopia: Trajectory of the Rebranded Ruling EliteAbubeker YasinPart III. Ethnic Mobilization and Civil War7. From Youth Protest to Armed Conflict in Oromia: Examining the Transition from the EPRDF to the Prosperity PartyFekadu Adugna and Mamo Hebo 8. Motorbikes, Cell Phones, and an Ethnic War: The Ethiopian State in South Omo in 2022Hanna Getachew Amare, Elias Alemu Bedasso, and Donald L. Donham 9. From Multiethnic Federalism to Tigrayan Nationalism in Post-EPRDF TigrayMuauz Gidey Alemu and Kelemework Tafere Reda 10. Wartime Grievances and the Rise of Amharaness over Other Identities in Rural WolloTeferi Abate Adem 11. Experiences of Women in the Northern Ethiopian WarTirsit SahledenglePart IV. The Developmental State Encounters the Power of Positive Thinking12. Industrialization, Young Women, and the End of the Developmental State: Examining Political Change Through the Lens of the Hawassa Industrial ParkRobel Mulat and Daniel Mains 13. Demolition, Construction, and the Aesthetics of Prosperity in Addis Ababa: A Photo EssayDesta Alemayehu Bekele and Daniel Mains 14. From the Developmental-State to "Reform": Shifting Government Rhetoric and Policy Toward the Privatization of State-Owned Enterprise in Ethiopia, 2018–2024Christina TekieAfterword: Reflections on the Decline of the Developmental State in Ethiopia and BeyondJames H. SmithContributorsIndex

Data D. Barata is a professor of anthropology at California State University, Sacramento. His previous books include Contesting Inequalities, Identities, and Rights in Ethiopia.Donald L. Donham is a distinguished research professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He is the coeditor of two previous collections of regional studies focused on earlier periods of Ethiopian experience: The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia and Remapping Ethiopia: Socialism and After.Daniel Mains is Wick Cary Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Under Construction: Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia and Hope Is Cut: Youth, Unemployment, and the Future in Urban Ethiopia.

"If you were to read one book about contemporary Ethiopia, this should be it. These nuanced chapters will deepen the insight on the country today." - Jennifer Riggan, author of The Struggling State: Nationalism, Mass Militarization and the Education of Eritrea

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Post-Marxism, Pentecostalism, and the Future in EthiopiaDonald L. Donham, Data D. Barata, and Daniel MainsPart I. Political and Religious Transformations 1. The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front and the Prosperity Party: A More than Passing Resemblance?Terrence Lyons2. The Return of Religion to Ethiopian Politics in the Post-EPRDF EraDereje Feyissa3. Religious Developments in Ethiopia and the Arrival of Abiy AhmedTerje ØstebøPart II. Changing Center/Periphery Relationships4. Ethnic Mobilization and Remaking the Ethno-Regional State in Post-EPRDF Southern EthiopiaMellese Madda and Data D. Barata 5. Renegotiating Landscapes of Autonomy and Extraction in Somali RegionJuweria Ali and Daniel K. Thompson6. Afar in Post-EPRDF Ethiopia: Trajectory of the Rebranded Ruling EliteAbubeker YasinPart III. Ethnic Mobilization and Civil War7. From Youth Protest to Armed Conflict in Oromia: Examining the Transition from the EPRDF to the Prosperity PartyFekadu Adugna and Mamo Hebo 8. Motorbikes, Cell Phones, and an Ethnic War: The Ethiopian State in South Omo in 2022Hanna Getachew Amare, Elias Alemu Bedasso, and Donald L. Donham 9. From Multiethnic Federalism to Tigrayan Nationalism in Post-EPRDF TigrayMuauz Gidey Alemu and Kelemework Tafere Reda 10. Wartime Grievances and the Rise of Amharaness over Other Identities in Rural WolloTeferi Abate Adem 11. Experiences of Women in the Northern Ethiopian WarTirsit SahledenglePart IV. The Developmental State Encounters the Power of Positive Thinking12. Industrialization, Young Women, and the End of the Developmental State: Examining Political Change Through the Lens of the Hawassa Industrial ParkRobel Mulat and Daniel Mains 13. Demolition, Construction, and the Aesthetics of Prosperity in Addis Ababa: A Photo EssayDesta Alemayehu Bekele and Daniel Mains 14. From the Developmental-State to "Reform": Shifting Government Rhetoric and Policy Toward the Privatization of State-Owned Enterprise in Ethiopia, 2018–2024Christina TekieAfterword: Reflections on the Decline of the Developmental State in Ethiopia and BeyondJames H. SmithContributorsIndex

Data D. Barata is a professor of anthropology at California State University, Sacramento. His previous books include Contesting Inequalities, Identities, and Rights in Ethiopia.Donald L. Donham is a distinguished research professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He is the coeditor of two previous collections of regional studies focused on earlier periods of Ethiopian experience: The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia and Remapping Ethiopia: Socialism and After.Daniel Mains is Wick Cary Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Under Construction: Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia and Hope Is Cut: Youth, Unemployment, and the Future in Urban Ethiopia.

"If you were to read one book about contemporary Ethiopia, this should be it. These nuanced chapters will deepen the insight on the country today." - Jennifer Riggan, author of The Struggling State: Nationalism, Mass Militarization and the Education of Eritrea

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Post-Marxism, Pentecostalism, and the Future in EthiopiaDonald L. Donham, Data D. Barata, and Daniel MainsPart I. Political and Religious Transformations 1. The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front and the Prosperity Party: A More than Passing Resemblance?Terrence Lyons2. The Return of Religion to Ethiopian Politics in the Post-EPRDF EraDereje Feyissa3. Religious Developments in Ethiopia and the Arrival of Abiy AhmedTerje ØstebøPart II. Changing Center/Periphery Relationships4. Ethnic Mobilization and Remaking the Ethno-Regional State in Post-EPRDF Southern EthiopiaMellese Madda and Data D. Barata 5. Renegotiating Landscapes of Autonomy and Extraction in Somali RegionJuweria Ali and Daniel K. Thompson6. Afar in Post-EPRDF Ethiopia: Trajectory of the Rebranded Ruling EliteAbubeker YasinPart III. Ethnic Mobilization and Civil War7. From Youth Protest to Armed Conflict in Oromia: Examining the Transition from the EPRDF to the Prosperity PartyFekadu Adugna and Mamo Hebo 8. Motorbikes, Cell Phones, and an Ethnic War: The Ethiopian State in South Omo in 2022Hanna Getachew Amare, Elias Alemu Bedasso, and Donald L. Donham 9. From Multiethnic Federalism to Tigrayan Nationalism in Post-EPRDF TigrayMuauz Gidey Alemu and Kelemework Tafere Reda 10. Wartime Grievances and the Rise of Amharaness over Other Identities in Rural WolloTeferi Abate Adem 11. Experiences of Women in the Northern Ethiopian WarTirsit SahledenglePart IV. The Developmental State Encounters the Power of Positive Thinking12. Industrialization, Young Women, and the End of the Developmental State: Examining Political Change Through the Lens of the Hawassa Industrial ParkRobel Mulat and Daniel Mains 13. Demolition, Construction, and the Aesthetics of Prosperity in Addis Ababa: A Photo EssayDesta Alemayehu Bekele and Daniel Mains 14. From the Developmental-State to "Reform": Shifting Government Rhetoric and Policy Toward the Privatization of State-Owned Enterprise in Ethiopia, 2018–2024Christina TekieAfterword: Reflections on the Decline of the Developmental State in Ethiopia and BeyondJames H. SmithContributorsIndex