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SUMMARY:Taking an African Empire to its own Court: Rethinking Tools and Me
 thods of State Construction in Imperial Ethiopia (1944-1974) - Dr Etana H.
  Dinka (Oberlin)
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DESCRIPTION:This paper examines crafts\, tools and subtle processes of sta
 te construction in imperial Ethiopia through analysis of the contradictory
  claims\, contestations and negotiations over access to and use of the ess
 ential resource—land—between 1944 and 1974. The study draws its case f
 rom a province in the west of imperial Ethiopia\, Qellem\, southwestern Wa
 llagga. With Qellem as historical laboratory and drawing largely on imperi
 al Ethiopia’s archives\, oral interviews and other primary sources\, the
  paper analyses the subtleties of the qälad system of land measurement du
 ring the period 1944–74\, a period that witnessed a systematic reversal 
 by imperial Ethiopia of the transformations of 1936–41\, as well as the 
 multiple reactions it generated. While recognizing that imperial Ethiopia
 ’s determined efforts after 1941 derived from the commercialization of l
 and and the national integration of the peoples in Ethiopia’s conquered 
 south\, this paper seeks to navigate the issue further by arguing that loc
 al contestations over the right to access land were significant in demonst
 rating how the Ethiopian state was imagined\, negotiated\, partially legit
 imized. It also examines how it was resisted through peasant appeals\, pet
 itions and court litigations as the process of state construction was embe
 dded into the local social context in Qellem.\nSpeakers:\nDr Etana H. Dink
 a (Oberlin)
LOCATION:13 Bevington Road (Seminar Room\, African Studies Centre)\, 13 Be
 vington Road OX2 6NB
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d32671ce-a308-4b8c-bb12-a2d952038748/
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