Contested Power in Ethiopia
Traditional Authorities and Multi-Party Elections
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Biographical note
Kjetil Tronvoll, PhD (2003) in political anthropology from LSE, is professor of human rights at the University of Oslo and Senior Partner of the International Law and Policy Institute. He has published extensively on the Horn of Africa, and his latest monograph is War and the Politics of Identity in Ethiopia (James Currey, 2009).
Tobias Hagmann, Ph.D. (2007), University of Lausanne, is a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. He has published on politics in the Horn of Africa and is co-editor of Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa (Wiley Blackwell, 2011).
Tobias Hagmann, Ph.D. (2007), University of Lausanne, is a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. He has published on politics in the Horn of Africa and is co-editor of Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa (Wiley Blackwell, 2011).
Readership
Anthropologists, political scientists and development practitioners interested in democratization, multi-party politics, electoral studies and the study of power and politics in Africa and Ethiopia.
Table of contents
CONTENTS
List of Maps, Photographs, Tables and Charts ......................................vii
Notes on Contributors ...............................................................................ix
List of Acronyms .........................................................................................xi
Introduction Traditional Authorities and Multi-Party Elections in Ethiopia ...... 1
Kjetil Tronvoll & Tobias Hagmann
Chapter 1 Electoral Politics in the Nuer Cultural Context .................31
Dereje Feyissa
Chapter 2 Fishing for Votes in the Somali Region: Clan Elders, Bureaucrats and Party Politics in the 2005 Elections .........61
Tobias Hagmann
Chapter 3 Family Connections: Inherited Status and Parliamentary Elections in Dawro, Southern Ethiopia .....89
Data Dea Barata
Chapter 4 A Revival of Tradition? Th e Power of Clans and Social Strata in the Wolayta Elections ....111
Lovise Aalen
Chapter 5 Cynicism and Hope: Urban Youth and Relations of Power During the 2005 Ethiopian Elections ....137
Daniel Mains
Chapter 6 Islam and Politics: The EPRDF, the 2005 Elections and Muslim Institutions in Bale ..................165
Terje Østebø
Chapter 7 ‘We Say they are Neftenya; They Say we are OLF’: A Post-Election Assessment of Ethnicity, Politics and Age-Sets in Oromiya ........................193
Charles Schaefer
Chapter 8 Customary Institutions in Contemporary Politics in Borana Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia ....................221
Marco Bassi
Chapter 9 Th e 2005 Elections in Maale: A Reassertion of Traditional Authority or the Extension of a Nascent Public Sphere? ........................................251
Donald L. Donham
Epilogue The ‘New’ Ethiopia: Changing Discourses of Democracy ...................269
Kjetil Tronvoll
Index .........................................................................................................289
List of Maps, Photographs, Tables and Charts ......................................vii
Notes on Contributors ...............................................................................ix
List of Acronyms .........................................................................................xi
Introduction Traditional Authorities and Multi-Party Elections in Ethiopia ...... 1
Kjetil Tronvoll & Tobias Hagmann
Chapter 1 Electoral Politics in the Nuer Cultural Context .................31
Dereje Feyissa
Chapter 2 Fishing for Votes in the Somali Region: Clan Elders, Bureaucrats and Party Politics in the 2005 Elections .........61
Tobias Hagmann
Chapter 3 Family Connections: Inherited Status and Parliamentary Elections in Dawro, Southern Ethiopia .....89
Data Dea Barata
Chapter 4 A Revival of Tradition? Th e Power of Clans and Social Strata in the Wolayta Elections ....111
Lovise Aalen
Chapter 5 Cynicism and Hope: Urban Youth and Relations of Power During the 2005 Ethiopian Elections ....137
Daniel Mains
Chapter 6 Islam and Politics: The EPRDF, the 2005 Elections and Muslim Institutions in Bale ..................165
Terje Østebø
Chapter 7 ‘We Say they are Neftenya; They Say we are OLF’: A Post-Election Assessment of Ethnicity, Politics and Age-Sets in Oromiya ........................193
Charles Schaefer
Chapter 8 Customary Institutions in Contemporary Politics in Borana Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia ....................221
Marco Bassi
Chapter 9 Th e 2005 Elections in Maale: A Reassertion of Traditional Authority or the Extension of a Nascent Public Sphere? ........................................251
Donald L. Donham
Epilogue The ‘New’ Ethiopia: Changing Discourses of Democracy ...................269
Kjetil Tronvoll
Index .........................................................................................................289
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