Remapping Ethiopia

While seemingly of interest only to Ethiopianists, the chapters raise fascinating questions concerning interpretations of centre-periphery relations, the practical effects of revolutions, changing ethnic identities and roles of local leadership, and the need for new thinking and frameworks for the history of one of Africa's oldest yet not so old countries.

• Part 1 The political framework: controlling space in Ethiopia, Christopher Clapham. Part 2 Looking back on projects of the socialist state, 1974-91: evading the revolutionary state - the Hor of the far South, Tadesse Wolde; memory and the humiliation of men - the revolution in Aari, Alexander Nary; close yet far - northern Shewa under the Derg, Ahmed Hassan Omer; garrison towns and the control of space in revolutionary Tigray, Jenny Hammond; modernist dreams and human suffering - villagization among the Guji Oromo, Taddessse Berisso; surviving resettlement in Wellegga - the Qeto experience, Alula Pankhurst. Part 3 The promise of 1991 - re-shaping the future and the past: paradoxes of power and culture in an old periphery -Surma, 1974-98, Jon Abbink; political visibility and automatic rifles - the Muguji in the 1990s, Hiroshi Matsude; Evangelical Christianity and ethnic consciousness in Majangir, Ren'ya Sato; capturing a local elite - the Konso honeymoon, Elizabeth Watson; fear and anger - female versus male narratives among the Anywaa, Eisei Kurimoto; imperial nostalgia - Christian restoration and civic decay in Gondar, Cressida Miller. Part 4 "Ethiopia" from the outside: no place to hide - flag-waving on the western border, Wendy James; battling with the past - new frameworks for Ethiopian historiography, Alessandro Triulzi.