War, Ethnicity, and Religion in Contemporary Ethiopia

Data D. Barata is a professor of anthropology at California State University, Sacramento. His previous books include Contesting Inequalities, Identities, and Rights in Ethiopia. Donald L. Donham is a distinguished research professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He is the coeditor of two previous collections of regional studies focused on earlier periods of Ethiopian experience: The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia and Remapping Ethiopia: Socialism and After. Daniel Mains is Wick Cary Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Under Construction: Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia and Hope Is Cut: Youth, Unemployment, and the Future in Urban Ethiopia.

List of Illustrations Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Post-Marxism, Pentecostalism, and the Future in Ethiopia Donald L. Donham, Data D. Barata, and Daniel Mains Part I. Political and Religious Transformations 1. The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front and the Prosperity Party: A More than Passing Resemblance? Terrence Lyons 2. The Return of Religion to Ethiopian Politics in the Post-EPRDF Era Dereje Feyissa 3. Religious Developments in Ethiopia and the Arrival of Abiy Ahmed Terje Ostebo Part II. Changing Center/Periphery Relationships 4. Ethnic Mobilization and Remaking the Ethno-Regional State in Post-EPRDF Southern Ethiopia Mellese Madda and Data D. Barata 5. Renegotiating Landscapes of Autonomy and Extraction in Somali Region Juweria Ali and Daniel K. Thompson 6. Afar in Post-EPRDF Ethiopia: Trajectory of the Rebranded Ruling Elite Abubeker Yasin Part III. Ethnic Mobilization and Civil War 7. From Youth Protest to Armed Conflict in Oromia: Examining the Transition from the EPRDF to the Prosperity Party Fekadu Adugna and Mamo Hebo 8. Motorbikes, Cell Phones, and an Ethnic War: The Ethiopian State in South Omo in 2022 Hanna Getachew Amare, Elias Alemu Bedasso, and Donald L. Donham 9. From Multiethnic Federalism to Tigrayan Nationalism in Post-EPRDF Tigray Muauz Gidey Alemu and Kelemework Tafere Reda 10. Wartime Grievances and the Rise of Amharaness over Other Identities in Rural Wollo Teferi Abate Adem 11. Experiences of Women in the Northern Ethiopian War Tirsit Sahledengle Part IV. The Developmental State Encounters the Power of Positive Thinking 12. Industrialization, Young Women, and the End of the Developmental State: Examining Political Change Through the Lens of the Hawassa Industrial Park Robel Mulat and Daniel Mains 13. Demolition, Construction, and the Aesthetics of Prosperity in Addis Ababa: A Photo Essay Desta Alemayehu Bekele and Daniel Mains 14. From the Developmental-State to "Reform": Shifting Government Rhetoric and Policy Toward the Privatization of State-Owned Enterprise in Ethiopia, 2018-2024 Christina Tekie Afterword: Reflections on the Decline of the Developmental State in Ethiopia and Beyond James H. Smith Contributors Index

"If you were to read one book about contemporary Ethiopia, this should be it. These nuanced chapters will deepen the insight on the country today." - Jennifer Riggan, author of The Struggling State: Nationalism, Mass Militarization and the Education of Eritrea