ROAD TO VIOLENCE: LAND ALIENATION, ROAD DEATHS AND STATE-MAKING IN THE LOWER OMO VALLEY, SOUTH-WEST ETHIOPIA.
Among the forms of violence concomitant with the development of large-scale commercial agriculture, road deaths are rarely mentioned. In Ethiopia's lower Omo valley, many agro-pastoralists have been killed or injured by vehicles since the development of sugar cane plantations, which prompted retalia...
| Publicado en: | Nomadic Peoples Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 256 - 278 |
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White Horse Press
2025
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