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War and the Politics of Identity in Ethiopia

The Making of Enemies and Allies in the Horn of Africa
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ISBN-13:
9781846157769
Veröffentl:
2009
Einband:
EPDF
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Kjetil Tronvoll
Serie:
2, Eastern Africa Series
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

Examines war and the impact of warfare on identity formation in Ethiopia.Images of war, narratives of suffering and notions of ethnicity are intrinsically linked to Western perceptions of Africa. Filtered through a mostly international media the information of African wars is confined to narrow categories of explanation emerging from and adapted to a Western history and political culture. This book aims at reversing this process; to look at war and suffering from the point of view of those who fight it and suffer through it. Indoing so it reveals that the simplistic models explaining contemporary wars in Africa which are reproduced in a Western discourse are basically false. This book examines the understanding of war and the impact of warfare onthe formation and conceptualisation of identities in Ethiopia. Building on historical trajectories of enemy images, the recent Eritean-Ethiopian war [1998-2000] is used as an empirical backdrop to explore war's formative impact, by analysing politics of identity and shifting perceptions of enemies and allies. KJETIL TRONVOLL is Professor in Human Rights, Peace and Conflict Studies at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo. Hisother publications include Brothers at War: Making Sense of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War (co-author; James Currey/Ohio University Press, 2000) and The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials: Transitional Justice Challenged (co-editor; James Currey 2009) .
Introduction: making enemies & alliesLand, hierarchy & alliances in Highland EthiopiaHistorical trajectories of enemy imagesAlternating enemies & allies: ethnicity in playWar behind the frontlines: individual approachesRecontructing 'Ethiopianness': competing nationalismsEthiopia & its malcontents: purifying the nationConclusion: arresting Ethiopian nationalismPostscript: after war, new enemies

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