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Lost futures? Educated youth precarity and protests in the Oromia region, Ethiopia
Children's Geographies ( IF 2.307 ) Pub Date : 2020-07-03 , DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2020.1789560
Tatek Abebe 1
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ABSTRACT Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores the connections between young people's livelihoods, education and visions of the future in Ethiopia. It engages with educated youth's narratives of precarity, dispossession, and ‘intimate exclusions,’ discussing how development has impacted rural livelihoods. Educated youth protests in the Oromia region reveal how shortages of farmland and education play crucial roles in the conflict about sovereignty and development. Qeerroo (Oromo youth) are particularly active in the protests because they are excluded from a rural future through land grabbing and population growth as well as from a modernist development future that unequally distributes the fruits of economic growth. By politicizing educated unemployment and landlessness and connecting them to neoliberal capitalism, this article analyses the intentions of the Ethiopian state to ‘save’ its youth through economic development while youths claim to ‘lose’ their futures to generate grassroots politics. The article also draws analytical attention to why there is a need to rethink concepts like development, waithood, and rural futures.

中文翻译:

失去期货?埃塞俄比亚奥罗米亚地区受过教育的青年car不安和抗议活动

摘要本文以人种学的田野调查为基础,探讨了埃塞俄比亚年轻人的生计,教育和对未来的看法之间的联系。它与受过教育的年轻人关于pre不安,处分剥夺和“亲密排斥”的叙述结合在一起,讨论了发展如何影响农村生计。奥罗米亚地区受过良好教育的青年抗议活动表明,农田和教育的短缺如何在主权与发展冲突中发挥关键作用。Qeerroo(奥罗莫青年)在抗议活动中尤为活跃,因为他们通过土地抢夺和人口增长而被排除在农村的未来之外,也被排除在不平等地分配经济增长成果的现代主义发展未来之外。通过将受过教育的失业和失地政治化并将其与新自由主义资本主义联系起来,本文分析了埃塞俄比亚国家通过经济发展来“挽救”青年的意图,而青年则声称“失去”自己的未来以产生基层政治。这篇文章还引起人们对为什么需要重新考虑诸如发展,等待和农村未来等概念的分析关注。
更新日期:2020-07-03
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