LEADER 04005nam 22006732 450 001 9911008969503321 005 20151002020706.0 010 $a1-282-98823-9 010 $a9786612988233 010 $a1-84615-776-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781846157769 035 $a(CKB)2560000000052500 035 $a(EBL)661963 035 $a(OCoLC)701053860 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000878018 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11469089 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000878018 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10813644 035 $a(PQKB)11658415 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781846157769 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC661963 035 $a(DE-B1597)677187 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781846157769 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000052500 100 $a20120514d2009|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWar & the politics of identity in Ethiopia $emaking enemies & allies in the Horn of Africa /$fKjetil Tronvoll 210 1$aSuffolk :$cBoydell & Brewer,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 239 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aEastern Africa series 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 08$a1-84701-612-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 220-231) and index. 327 $aMaking Enemies & Allies -- Land, Hierarchy & Alliances in Highland Ethiopia -- Historical Trajectories of enemy images -- Alternating Enemies & Allies : Ethnicity in Play -- War Behind the Front Lines : Individual Approaches -- Reconstructing 'Ethiopianness' : Competing Nationalisms -- Ethiopia & its Malcontents : Purifying the Nation -- Arresting Ethiopian Nationalism -- Postscript : After War, New Enemies. 330 $aImages of war, narratives of suffering and notions of ethnicity are intrinsically linked to Western perceptions of Africa. Filtered through a mostly international media the information of African wars is confined to narrow categories of explanation emerging from and adapted to a Western history and political culture. This book aims at reversing this process; to look at war and suffering from the point of view of those who fight it and suffer through it. In doing so it reveals that the simplistic models explaining contemporary wars in Africa which are reproduced in a Western discourse are basically false. This book examines the understanding of war and the impact of warfare on the formation and conceptualisation of identities in Ethiopia. Building on historical trajectories of enemy images, the recent Eritean-Ethiopian war [1998-2000] is used as an empirical backdrop to explore war's formative impact, by analysing politics of identity and shifting perceptions of enemies and allies. KJETIL TRONVOLL is Professor in Human Rights, Peace and Conflict Studies at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo. His other publications include 'Brothers at War: Making Sense of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War' (co-author; James Currey/Ohio University Press, 2000) and 'The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials: Transitional Justice Challenged' (co-editor; James Currey 2009). 410 0$aEastern African studies (London, England) 517 3 $aWar & the Politics of Identity in Ethiopia 606 $aEritrean-Ethiopian War, 1998-2000 606 $aGroup identity$xPolitical aspects$zEthiopia 606 $aEthnicity$zEthiopia 606 $aWar and society$zEthiopia 607 $aEthiopia$xPolitics and government$y1991- 615 0$aEritrean-Ethiopian War, 1998-2000. 615 0$aGroup identity$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aEthnicity 615 0$aWar and society 676 $a963.507/2 686 $aLB 51541$qBSZ$2rvk 700 $aTronvoll$b Kjetil$0662651 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008969503321 996 $aWar & the politics of identity in Ethiopia$94395070 997 $aUNINA