Ethiopia’s ‘Blue Oil’? Hydropower, Irrigation and Development in the Omo-Turkana Basin

Stevenson, Edward G.J.; Kamski, Benedikt

Ethiopia’s ‘Blue Oil’? Hydropower, Irrigation and Development in the Omo-Turkana Basin

Stevenson, Edward G.J.; Kamski, Benedikt

Authors

Dr Edward Stevenson jed.stevenson@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Benedikt Kamski

Contributors

E.C. Gabbert
Editor

F. Gebresenbet
Editor

J.G. Galaty
Editor

G. Schlee
Editor

Abstract

Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the struggles and strategies of those who face dispossession and also discredit ideological false modernist tropes like ‘backwardness’ and ‘primitiveness’.

Citation

Stevenson, E. G., & Kamski, B. (2021). Ethiopia’s ‘Blue Oil’? Hydropower, Irrigation and Development in the Omo-Turkana Basin. In E. Gabbert, F. Gebresenbet, J. Galaty, & G. Schlee (Eds.), Lands of the future: Anthropological perspectives on pastoralism, land deals and tropes of modernity in Eastern Africa (292-308). Berghahn Books

Online Publication Date	Jan 1, 2021
Publication Date	2021-01
Deposit Date	Jan 27, 2021
Publicly Available Date	Jan 1, 2023
Pages	292-308
Series Title	Integration and Conflict Studies
Series Number	23
Book Title	Lands of the future: Anthropological perspectives on pastoralism, land deals and tropes of modernity in Eastern Africa
ISBN	9781789209907
Publisher URL	https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/GabbertLands

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This chapter appears in a larger collection published by Berghahn Books (https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/GabbertLands). SAMPLE CITATION: Stevenson, E.G.J. and Kamski, B.. 2021. “Ethiopia’s ‘Blue Oil’? Hydropower, irrigation and development in the Omo-Turkana Basin” In Lands of the future: Anthropological perspectives on pastoralism, land deals and tropes of modernity in Eastern Africa, eds. Gabbert, E., Gebresenbet, F., Galaty, J.G., and Schlee, G. Oxford: Berghahn Books.