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Research interests: Social inclusion & exclusion; minorities & marginalization; identity, ethnicity, ethnic groups & nationalism; youth, gender, migration & livelihood; legal pluralism, conflict & conflict resolution mechanisms; culture & ethnography
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In accordance with the culture and environment, vernacular architecture has provided suitable solutions. People are looking for more environmentally friendly structures in today's globalized world. To comprehend the sustainable qualities of indigenous housing tradition, thus it is important to look back in time. This article has used the idea of su...
Results of the implementation of Ethiopian ethnic federal-ism are remarkably anomalous even after this political order has been in place for more than two decades. Among others, the anomaly is evident within the range of ethnic groups existing at the local level. In particular minorities that share a federal state within majorities have not obtaine...
Based on fieldwork largely conducted in 2017 at Ankober Woräda of Amhara Region, this paper shows the intrusion of the state into the jurisdiction of Customary Dispute Resolution Mechanisms (CDRMS). Studies on CDRMs in Ethiopia have mostly focused on documentation of different institutions practiced among different ethnic communities. They have als...
This paper presents a short ethnography of the water among the Awi ethnic group in northwest Ethiopia. The Awi have developed cultural practices in relation to the water. There are beliefs in the power of water favorably serving as the repellent or breaker of evil spirits. Conversely, there are profound beliefs of how the evil spirits themselves ca...
Since 1995 and until it apparently eased with the coming of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, ethnicity has become the dogmatic principle of the country for its social and political policies. Consequently, it has permeated through university campuses and affected relationships among students belonging to different ethnic groups. This study makes a micro-s...
In this paper, we explore the potential for integrating the əddər-an Ethiopian approach to social solidarity and form of social organization that in the contemporary period has most commonly seen people collectively pooling money to defray costs of burying loved ones-into the federal government's population health planning. Specifically, while the...
This working paper is based on empirical research on translocal figurations of displacement in Ethiopia. It explores TRAFIG's central question: "How are pro-tractedness, dependency and vulnerability related to the factors of local and translocal connectivity and mobility, and, in turn, how can connectivity and mobility be utilised to enhance the se...
Being a home to more than 80 ethnic groups, Ethiopia has to balance normative diversity with efforts to implement state law across its territory. This volume explores the co-existence of state, customary, and religious legal forums from the perspective of legal practitioners and local justice seekers. It shows how the various stakeholders' use of n...
Ethiopia was hailed as one of the fast-growing countries from 2004
to 2015. Under the Growth and Transformation Plan I (GTP I),
which ran from 2009/2010 to 2014/2015, the country launched a
transformative development plan. Subsequently, many state-owned
mega-projects were designed with the aim to improve the country’s
economy and improve peopl...
This article focused on the investigation of the level of host-guest interaction and its implication on the quality of tourists' trip experiences in Ethiopia by taking Dorzé village as a case study. Dorzé people are a community inhabiting the Gamo highlands in southern Ethiopia. The village has well-known cultural tourist attractions with rich cele...
Many African countries have hitherto incorporated environmental rights recognized under international standards. This chapter analyzes the coverage of environmental rights in the Ethiopian environmental legal regime. Despite the different challenges that compromise the realization of these rights, this chapter examines only the legislative and inst...
Based on an ethnographic fieldwork experience among two culturally different ethnic groups in Ethiopia, this article proposes an understanding of social roles in the field in a continuum. The two groups are known as Gumuz and Agaw. In my fieldwork with the Gumuz, I was an “outsider” and the Gumuz social boundary did not allow me to socialize unless...
Influenced by developments in the international environmental (rights) law, most African countries now incorporate in their constitutions or other major legal documents environmental rights for their citizens. The 1995 Federal Constitution of Ethiopian, the environment policy of this country, and all subsequent legislations also incorporate environ...
In this article, I investigate the Awi ethnic group’s migration and integration into Addis Ababa. Through qualitative techniques of data collection both at places of migrant origin and destination, I explore migration and its causes through time, mechanisms of economic and social integration, and accompanying challenges. The findings show that the...
In November 2012, the 18th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies was convened in Dire Dawa, a cosmopolitan city in the eastern lowlands of Ethiopia. This event gathered more than 300 international scholars from all disciplines of the humanities and social social sciences. Under the general theme of ‘movement’ these two volumes gather a coll...
