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Borders & borderlands as resources in the Horn of Africa, edited by Dereje Feyissa & Markus Virgil Hoehne

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Borders & borderlands as resources in the Horn of Africa, edited by Dereje Feyissa & Markus Virgil Hoehne

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eng

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

Borders & borderlands as resources in the Horn of Africa

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electronic resource

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dictionaries

Oclc number

1097144516

Responsibility statement

edited by Dereje Feyissa & Markus Virgil Hoehne

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

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 include the 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 permeability but 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. --, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

State borders & borderlands as resources : an analytical framework / Dereje Feyissa & Markus Virgil Hoehne -- More state than the state? The Anywaa's call for the rigidification of the Ethio-Sudanese border / Dereje Feyissa -- Making use of kin beyond the international border : inter-ethnic relations along the Ethio-Kenyan border / Fekadu Adugna -- The Tigrinnya-speakers across the borders : discourses of unity & separation in ethnohistorical context / Wolbert G.C. Smidt -- Trans-border political alliance in the Horn of Africa : the case of the Afar-Issa conflict / Yasin Mohammed Yasin -- People & politics along & across the Somaliland-Puntland border / Markus Virgil Hoehne -- The Ethiopian-British Somaliland boundary / Cedric Barnes -- The opportunistic economies of the Kenya-Somali borderland in historical perspective / Lee Cassanelli -- Magendo & survivalism : Babukusu-Bagisu relations & economic ingenuity on the Kenya-Uganda border 1962-80 / Peter Wafula Wekesa -- Can boundaries not border on one another? The Zigula (Somali Bantu) between Somalia & Tanzania / Francesca Declich -- Conclusion : Putting back the bigger picture / Christopher Clapham

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