Interrogating Dispossession for Development in Ethiopia. Issue 1 (2nd January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tesema, Yonas
• Is Part Of: Forum for development studies. Volume 49:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 53
• Page End: 76
• Publication Date: 2022-01-02
• Subjects: land -- labor -- dispossession -- Ethiopia; Developing countries -- Periodicals; 338.90091724
• DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2021.1984305
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0803-9410

Abstract

Abstract : In this article, I explore some of the implications of state land policy as an approach to analyzing the double dispossession – land and labor dispossessions. Despite a growing interest in the study of land dispossession in the global South, especially after the post-2008 financial crisis, examining the complexities between the land policy, land and labor dispossessions have relatively been overlooked. I discuss how the state's land policy contributes to coercive land dispossession and how this aspect of dispossession becomes the precondition for the second dispossession – labor. The people who lost their land to investments concurrently lost their employment, and a new class of landless and jobless farmers is emerging.