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.

“The chapter case studies significantly expand data on specific locales within Ethiopia where rangeland, river basins, and forests vital to pastoralists are being developed by both Ethiopian and international interests…Recommended.” • Choice“Explains clearly how changes in pastoral and agro-pastoral land use/lease in East Africa lead to environmental degradation and depletion of resources… a very important book.” • Taddesse Berisso, Addis Ababa University“The overall volume is highly coherent, well integrated, ethnographically convincing as well as written with technical clarity and sober positioning …no comparable material exists in scope and focus.” • Felix Girke, University of Konstanz

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Futuremaking with PastoralistsEchi Christina GabbertPart I: Setting the Context: Modernity and Citizenship in Pastoral AreasChapter 1. Modern Mobility in East Africa: Pastoral Responses to Rangeland Fragmentation, Enclosure and SettlementJohn G. GalatyChapter 2. Unequal Citizenship and One-Sided Communication: Anthropological Perspectives on Collective Identification in the Context of Large-Scale Land Transfers in EthiopiaGünther SchleeChapter 3. Global Trade, Local Realities: Why African States Undervalue PastoralismPeter D. LittlePart II: Contested Identities and Territories: A History of ExpropriationChapter 4. Modes of Dispossession of Indigenous Lands and Territories in AfricaElifuraha I. Laltaika and Kelly M. AskewChapter 5. Land and the State in EthiopiaJohn MarkakisChapter 6. Persistent Expropriation of Pastoral Lands: The Afar CaseMaknun Ashami and Jean LydallPart III: Power, Politics and Reactions to State-BuildingChapter 7. Anatomy of a White Elephant: Investment Failure and Land Conflicts on Ethiopia’s Oromia–Somali FrontierJonah WedekindChapter 8. From Cattle Herding to Charcoal Burning: Land Expropriation, State Consolidation and Livelihood Changes in Abaya Valley, Southern EthiopiaAsebe RegassaChapter 9. Villagization in Ethiopia’s Lowlands: Development vs. Facilitating Control and DispossessionFana GebresenbetPart IV: Underdeveloping South OmoChapter 10. ‘Breaking Every Rule in the Book’: The Story of River Basin Development in Ethiopia’s Omo ValleyDavid TurtonChapter 11. State-Building in the Ethiopian South-Western Lowlands: Experiencing the Brunt of State Power in MelaLucie BuffavandChapter 12. Customary Land Use and Local Consent Practices in Mun (Mursi): A New Call for Meaningful FPIC Standards in Southern EthiopiaShauna LaToskyChapter 13. Ethiopia’s ‘Blue Oil’? Hydropower, Irrigation and Development in the Omo-Turkana BasinEdward G.J. Stevenson and Benedikt KamskiConclusion: Pastoralists for FutureEchi Christina Gabbert, Fana Gebresenbet and Jonah WedekindGlossaryIndex