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External versus Internal Self-Determination: A Plea for the Full Implementation of the Ethiopian Constitution
No full textThis article contributes to the Ethiopian debate on self-determination, considering the current multinational federal constitution as well as international understandings of the concept. The article suggests that the Ethiopian Federal Constitution provides for internal self-determination and that shortcomings in terms of ethnic conflict should be attributed to failure to properly implement it. The author recommends full respect of human rights, both political rights and minority and indigenous rights, in line with the international best practices
Generation, regeneration and social transformation: linking theory, policy and engagement
Full text linkThe idea of working on ‘generation’ and ‘regeneration’ in the context of policy arose when the European Union launched the Next Generation EU recovery plan as a way out of COVID crisis, thus resorting to a concept that East African societies based on generational class systems have been using as reference of their main main institutional set-up. Inspired by the Rhetoric culture school, attention shifted to the cognitive structures and correlations that ‘generation’ and ‘regeneration’ evocate, for appropriate and constructive use in policy and action. This special issue collects applied ethnographic studies on the implementation of EU programmes, long-term ethnography of Candomblè religion,
a study on the role of the gadaa generational class systems of the Oromo (Ethiopia), ethnography on car theft in Kanaky (New Caledonia), a collaborative ethnography of the dônga stick duelling practiced by the Mursi (Ethiopia), and a long-term ethnographic study of divination in Hamar (Ethiopia). The comparative review of the use of ‘generation’ and ‘regeneration’ in these ethnographies shows that both represent the link between past and future, providing condensed expressions of continuity of key values. Generation evokes the reproduction of society, the process of knowledge transfer, education and cultural transmission, as linked to a specific identity group or polity. Regeneration is instead activated in response to some sort of unpredictable disturbing element that breaks the normal flow of events, either as an ongoing necessity or on occasion of crises. As such, regeneration allows the idea of change and social transformation
Un progetto di ricerca a sostegno dell’applicazione della Legge 168/2017 sui Domini Collettivi
No full textThe Complexity of an African Pastoral Polity. An Introduction to the Council Organization of the Borana-Oromo
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I territori di vita e l'ICCA Consortium
No full textL'articolo illustra il concetto di 'territorio di vita' promosso dall'organizzazione globale di popoli indigeni e comunità locali ICCA Consortium
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