A pragmatic high modernism? rural development and state building in the Ethiopian lowlands, c. 1960–2019.

IF 1.3 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-26 DOI:10.1080/21681392.2022.2076705
L. Puddu
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Large scale agricultural projects driven by a high modernist ideology have been closely interlinked with the process of state building at the Ethiopian lowland frontier since the second half of the twentieth century. This paper provides a diachronic analysis of the political economy of agricultural development and the associated frontier effect in the western and north-eastern lowlands of the country across three different political regimes. A comparative assessment of these patterns suggests that the high modernist paradigm should be applied with some qualification to the agenda of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), the coalition that ruled Ethiopia from 1994 to 2019. The EPRDF was far more pragmatic than its predecessors; the oscillation between different degrees of state intervention was based upon past experiences of success and failure in the territorialization of state power in contested borderlands.
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实用主义的高级现代主义?埃塞俄比亚低地的农村发展和国家建设,约1960-2019年。
20世纪下半叶以来,由高度现代主义意识形态推动的大规模农业项目与埃塞俄比亚低地边境的国家建设进程密切相关。本文通过三种不同的政治制度,对该国西部和东北部低地农业发展的政治经济学及其相关的前沿效应进行了历时分析。对这些模式的比较评估表明,高度现代主义范式应该在一定程度上适用于埃塞俄比亚人民革命民主阵线(EPRDF)的议程,该联盟从1994年到2019年统治埃塞俄比亚。EPRDF比其前任务实得多;不同程度的国家干预之间的摇摆是基于过去在有争议的边境地区国家权力领土化的成功和失败的经验。
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Critical African Studies
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期刊介绍: Critical African Studies seeks to return Africanist scholarship to the heart of theoretical innovation within each of its constituent disciplines, including Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, History, Law and Economics. We offer authors a more flexible publishing platform than other journals, allowing them greater space to develop empirical discussions alongside theoretical and conceptual engagements. We aim to publish scholarly articles that offer both innovative empirical contributions, grounded in original fieldwork, and also innovative theoretical engagements. This speaks to our broader intention to promote the deployment of thorough empirical work for the purposes of sophisticated theoretical innovation. We invite contributions that meet the aims of the journal, including special issue proposals that offer fresh empirical and theoretical insights into African Studies debates.
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