Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

Borders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples.State borders are more than barriers. They structure social, economic and political spaces and as such provide opportunities as well as obstacles for the communities straddling both sides of the border. This book deals with the conduits and opportunities of state borders in the Horn of Africa, and investigates how the people living there exploit state borders through various strategies.Using a micro level perspective, the case studies, which includethe Horn and Eastern Africa, particularly the borders of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, focus on opportunities, highlight the agency of the borderlanders, and acknowledge the permeabilitybut consequentiality of the borders. DEREJE FEYISSA, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany; MARKUS VIRGIL HOEHNE, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-06-17
Mått:138 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt:346 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Eastern Africa Series
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:James Currey
ISBN:9781847010186

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The book bears the stamp of unmistakable originality in the nine constituent substantive essays on the various strategies by which borderland communities...explore and exploit the border in their diverse contexts and situations not just to survive but even to flourish economically, socially, culturally and politically.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface by Gunther Schlee - Günther SchleePreface by the EditorsState Borders & Borderlands as Resources: An Analytical Framework - Dereje Feyissa and Markus Virgil HoehneMore State than the State? The Anywaa's Call for the Rigidification of the Ethio-Sudanese Border - Dereje FeyissaMaking Use of the Kin Beyond the International Border: Inter-ethnic Relations along the Ethio-Kenyan Border - Fekadu AdugnaThe Tigrinnya-speakers across the Borders: Discourses of Unity & Separation in Ethnohistorical Context - Wolbert G.C. SmidtTrans-Border Political Alliance in the Horn of Africa: The Case of the Afar-Issa Conflict - Yasin Mohammed YasinPeople & Politics along and across the Somaliland-Puntland Border - Markus Virgil HoehneThe Ethiopian-British Somaliland Boundary - Cedric BarnesThe Opportunistic Economies of the Kenya-Somali Borderland in Historical Perspective - Lee CassanelliMagendo & Survivalism: Babukusu-Bagisu Relations & Economic Ingenuity on the Kenya-Uganda Border 1962-80 - Peter Wafula WekesaCan Boundaries Not Border on One Another? The Zigula (Somali Bantu) between Somalia & Tanzania - Francesca DeclichConclusion: Putting Back the Bigger Picture - Christopher Clapham