1st Edition
Contesting Inequalities, Identities and Rights in Ethiopia
By Data D. Barata
Copyright 2019
186 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
186 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
186 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction: Issues, Debates and Perspectives 2. New Beginning to an Old Nation: An Ethnography of State Reform and Human Rights Politics 3. Cultural Identities and Unequal Citizenship: Clans, Status Groups and the Capability to Claim Rights 4. Religion and Unequal Believers: The Protestants, the Orthodox Church, and the Indigenous Spirits in Tug of War 5. Contesting Land Rights in Shifting Political Contexts: A Battle Unlike Any Other 6. Conclusion: Identities and Equal Rights in a New Key
Biography
Data D. Barata is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Sacramento, USA.
