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Border diplomacy and state-building in north-western Ethiopia,c. 1965–1977
2017
In the first half of the twentieth century, the north-western lowlands of imperial Ethiopia were the typical interstitial frontier of the Ethiopian–Sudanese borderlands. Starting in the early 1960s, a cash crop revolution paved the way to the transformation of the Mazega into a settlement frontier and the emergence of a dispute with Sudan for demarcation of the international border. This article explores the entanglement between the political economy of frontier governance and border diplomacy in the contested area. It highlights how the management of the border dispute was deeply affected by the contradictory interests of the various layers of government and “twilight” entities that projec…
The politics of space in Borana Oromo, Ethiopia: demographics, elections, identity and customary institutions
2010
This article addresses the protracted state of political violence in and around the Borana and Guji zones of Oromia region after the introduction of ethnic federalism in Ethiopia. To account for the persistence of the conflict, we must elaborate on the connections between ethnic identity, natural resource and customary institutions by introducing the notion of oprimary identityo. Since the turn of the millennium there is in Ethiopia a theoretically grounded attempt to co-opt customary institutions and elders into modern governance, particularly in the pastoral sector. Field-research focused on the interplay of customary and modern politics during two electoral events, the 2004 referendum or…
Camino a la paz: repertorios simbólicos testimoniales de una nación en transición
2016
Resumen : En Colombia se han dado en los ultimos anos una variedad de repertorios simbolicos de memorias del trauma que ha vivido el pais como resultado del conflicto armado. Estos repertorios se manifiestan en diversas expresiones culturales y esteticas con el fin de interpelar y transformar las experiencias sufridas por las victimas de la violencia. Son practicas de reparacion y resistencia como antidoto contra la impunidad y el olvido. En este ensayo se propone que los repertorios simbolicos son las nuevas formas del testimonio del siglo veintiuno. Dichos repertorios se apropian de los metodos y estrategias del testimonio para expresar una urgencia y una solidaridad hacia un objetivo com…
Claude Lefort as interpreter of Machiavellian social conflict
2020
Claude Lefort, French philosopher and activist, exponent of the anti-totalitarian moment in France, has developed an original theoretical proposal on democracy and totalitarianism. When he distanced himself from the creed of the proletarian revolution as an instrument of understanding of human action, he focused on the understanding of the political as a space in which the social emerges, in which it takes shape. The idea that society acquired a unity through the revolutionary project was overturned by the knowledge that the social cannot be contained; it cannot be the object of appropriation and unification through action or knowledge without threatening freedom and the existence of societ…
Negotiating the Terminological Borders of ‘Language Mediation’ in English and Italian. A Discussion on the Repercussions of Terminology on the Practi…
2015
Linguistic and cultural mediation has been playing an increasingly important role in contemporary society as a result of the intensification of international exchanges and migration flows; however, the definitions that have been given of it are still rather vague and inconsistent. In some cases linguistic and cultural mediation is seen as a broad superordinate category, comprising a range of different interlinguistic and intercultural activities serving the purpose of facilitating communication across languages, cultures and societies in various areas of civil society: industry, business, trade, law, literature, academia, institutions, public services, etc. In other cases, instead, the defi…
Humanidades, a place against oblivion. Etnography about tradition of the marks of memory and the revolution of words in La Plata - Argentina
2019
En este texto me interesa analizar la génesis de un proceso de memoria singular generado por y en la Facultad de Humanidades de Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Focalizaré la mirada sobre la instalación de una placa con los nombres de desaparecidos en la Facultad de Humanidades de La Plata y sus derivaciones en el cambio de la institución universitaria a un predio donde había funcionado el ex Centro Clandestino de Detención BIM 3, para finalmente detenerme en la lucha por una pared donde se dirimieron y dirimen posturas políticas y conflictos de memoria a partir de tres murales. Estos pequeños actos que producen y resignifican un lugar de memoria peculiar, permiten desnaturalizar la idea d…
Making sense of the past to understand the present: Attributions for historical trauma predict contemporary social and political attitudes
2021
Research indicates that the memory of collective trauma influences attitudes towards contemporary social and political issues. We suggest that the specific attributions for trauma that members of victim and perpetrator groups make provide a more nuanced understanding of this relationship. Thus, we constructed and validated a measure of attributions for the Holocaust. Then, we ran a preregistered study on representative samples in Germany ( N = 504) and Israel ( N = 469) to examine whether attributing the Holocaust to essentialist or contextual causes influences attitudes towards the immigration crisis and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Results indicated that, among Germans, attributing …
Something Mightier: Marginalization, Occult Imaginations and the Youth Conflict in the Oil-Rich Niger Delta
2011
This contribution examines the role of occult imaginations in the struggle against perceived socio-economic marginalization by youth militias from the Ijaw ethnic group in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It argues that the asymmetric power between the federal government/transnational oil corporations (TNOCs) and the militias may have privileged the invocation of the supernatural as a critical agency of strength and courage by the youth militias. The conflict in the region embodies a cultural revision which has been necessitated by both the uncertainty of the oil environment and the prevailing narratives of social injustice. Hence the Egbesu deity, seen historically as embodying…
¿La "reina de la fiesta"? Fiestas tradicionales y reproducción de la desigualdad de género. El caso de las Fallas de València
2020
Las desigualdades de género en las fiestas tradicionales han generado una creciente atención social y académica. Fenómenos como el acoso, abuso o agresiones sexuales, los roles segregados o las codificaciones patriarcales que facilitan instituciones festivas muy masculinizadas, tanto en las composiciones como en las dinámicas internas, han revelado que existe una persistencia en el mantenimiento que choca con la evolución de la sociedad hacia una mayor igualdad. En este sentido entendemos que la cultura festiva tradicional no puede interpretarse correctamente desde la dimensión del consenso sino como una arena de conflicto social. En esta perspectiva la idea del ritual festivo como generado…
Génesis y resolución de conflictos relacionados con la instalación de mezquitas y oratorios: el caso del oratorio de Singuerlín (Santa Coloma de Gram…
2017
Durante los últimos años, se han sucedido, en diferentes territorios del Estado español, los conflictos relacionados con la instalación de mezquitas y oratorios destinados a la práctica del culto musulmán. Este artículo analiza uno de los conflictos más intensos, el desatado en 2004 ante el intento de apertura del oratorio del barrio de Singuerlín en Santa Coloma de Gramenet. Se estudia su raíz, su evolución y el papel que jugó la mediación intercultural en su gestión. A partir de las entrevistas en profundidad efectuadas con los actores implicados, varios años después, se analizan los elementos estructurales del conflicto y se plantea una reflexión acerca de la forma en la que se ha ido co…