TERRAIN / FIELDWORK: A View from Gibe III Hydropower Development Project

Sous titre:

The Politics of “Developmental State” in Ethiopia: A View from Gibe III Hydropower Development Project

Nom de carnet:

CFEE

Date de publication:

Mardi 09 Janvier 2018 - 14:30

Publié ici :

09 Janvier 2018

Mis à jour le :

10 Janvier 2018

Mots-clefs:

DEVELOPMENTAL STATE
Geography
GIBE III
HYDROPOWER

Langue de publication:

Anglais

Zone géographique:

Afrique

by Edegilign Hailu Woldegebrael

Edegilign Hailu Woldegebrael is PhD candidate in geography at Université Paris Nanterre, France. His supervisor is Dr. Sabine Planel. He is conducting research on the politics of « Developmental State » in Ethiopia, through the prism of the Gibe III Hydropower Development Project. He is one of the recipients of the CFEE field scholarships. In this text, he explains the main contributions of this fieldwork funded by the CFEE.

The project of state building and the quest for modernist economic development have been an evolving concern for the successive Ethiopian regimes since the early 20th century. These projects were carried out under various ideologies and institutional structures during which the country experienced contrasting regime types: a modernizing imperial monarchy, a socialist military dictatorship and an »ethnocratic » regime led by the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). Previous attempts, however, failed to buy the needed legitimacy and the consequent development. The current EPRDF led government, upon coming to power in 1991, propagated democratization based on ethno-federal state structures and self rule for its legitimacy construction. On the other hand, during the second decade of its rule, the narratives on democratization and self rule have been pushed further down on the government’s agenda and were replaced by the ‘’democratic developmental state’’ discourses that focused on achieving highly ambitious economic growth targets as a new source of legitimacy. The ultimate objective of the ‘‘democratic developmental state’’ project is to elevate the country to the status of “middle income” by 2025 as stated in the Growth and Transformation Plans.

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