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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 them
through various strategies. Using a micro level perspective, the
case studies, which include the borders of Djibouti, Eritrea,
Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, focus on
opportunities, highlight the agency of the borderlanders, and
acknowledge the permeability but consequentiality of the borders.
Dereje Feyissa is Africa Research Director at the International Law
and Policy Institute and Adjunct Professor at Addis Ababa
University, Ethiopia. Markus Virgil Hoehne is a Lecturer at the
Institute of Anthropology at Leipzig University.
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.
The book describes the worlds where Swahili is spoken as
multi-centred contexts that cannot be thought of as located in a
specific coastal area of Kenya or Tanzania. The articles presented
discuss a range of geographical areas where Swahili is spoken, from
Somalia to Mozambique along the Indian Ocean, in Europe and the US.
In an attempt to de-essentialize the concepts of translocality and
cosmopolitanism, the emphasis of the book is on translocality as
experienced by different social strata and by gender and
cosmopolitanism as an acquired attitude. Contributors are: Katrin
Bromber, Gerard van de Bruinhorst, Francesca Declich, Rebecca
Gearhart Mafazy, Linda Giles, Ida Hadjivayanis, Mohamed Kassim,
Kjersti Larsen, Mohamed Saleh, Maria Suriano, Sandra Vianello.
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