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Contesting Inequalities, Identities and Rights in Ethiopia (Hardcover)
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Contesting Inequalities, Identities and Rights in Ethiopia (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Africa
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This book examines the relationship between inequalities and
identities in the context of an unprecedented state advocacy of
human rights with a distinct emphasis on (ethnic) group rights in
post-civil war Ethiopia. The analysis is set against the background
of a dramatic state remaking by a rebellion movement (the Ethiopian
People's Revolutionary Democratic Front - EPRDF) that seized
control of the Ethiopian state in 1991, after a decisive
battlefield victory over an unpopular regime. The new government of
former rebels pledged to institute a new system of ethnic
self-government that celebrated ethnic diversity with a firm pledge
to guarantee basic human rights. After nearly three decades in
office, however, the Ethiopian government is challenged by the
resilience of identity-based inequalities it ostensibly sought to
end, and by protests against its own policies and practices that
intensified inequality. The events in Ethiopia, reverberating
throughout the Horn of Africa, have inspired heated and often
polarized debates between academics, policy experts, political
activists, and the media. Data D. Barata contributes to this debate
through a nuanced ethnographic analysis of why identities with
distinct notions of inequality persist, even after relentless
interventions and ideological repudiations. The contestations and
struggles over political representation, local governance, cultural
identities, land and religion that the book examines are shaped,
one way or another, by the global human rights discourse that has
inspired millions of Africans to confront entrenched structures of
power. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in
the fields of anthropology, African studies, political science,
sociology and cultural studies.
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