Get Your Hands On Remapping Ethiopia: Socialism After Assembled By Wendy James Offered As Digital Edition

everywhere is concerned with spatial relationships, Modern states “map” local communities, making them legible for the purposes of control, Ethiopia has gone through several stages of “mapping” in its imperial, revolutionary, and postrevolutionary phases,

InThe Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia, a crossdisciplinary collection edited by Don Donham and Wendy James, opened up the study of center/periphery relations in the Ethiopian empire until the fall of the monarchy in.
This new volume examines similar themes, taking the story forward through the major changes effected by the socialist regime from the revolution ofto its overthrow in, and then into the current period that has been marked by moves toward local democracy and

political devolution.


Topics include the changing fortunes of new and historic towns and cities, the impact of the Mengistu regimes policies of villagization and resettlement, local aspects of the struggle against Mengistu and its aftermath, and the fate of border regions.
Special attention is given to developments since: to new local institutions and forms of autonomy, the links between the international diasporas of Ethiopia and the fortunes of their home areas.
The collection draws on the work of established scholars as well as a new generation of Ethiopian and international researchers in the disciplines of anthropology, political science, history, and geography.
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