Oscillating Imaginaries: War, Peace, and the Precarious Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia
While the 2018 peace declaration between Ethiopia and Eritrea was widely celebrated, Eritrean refugees expressed concern that peace would be destabilising, and their status in Ethiopia would change. Their concerns were shaped by a long history of oscillating imaginaries of how Eritrea “fits” with E...
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While the 2018 peace declaration between Ethiopia and Eritrea was widely celebrated, Eritrean refugees expressed concern that peace would be destabilising, and their status in Ethiopia would change. Their concerns were shaped by a long history of oscillating imaginaries of how Eritrea “fits” with Ethiopia. Drawing from historical analysis and ethnographic fieldwork leading up to the peace agreement, we explore how these oscillating imaginaries create an uncomfortable and unstable situation for Eritreans in Ethiopia, rendering refugees vulnerable to unpredictable violence. Better understanding the way identity categories have been subject to constant slippage and have been instrumentalised by political elites could help to forge a more peaceful future among Ethiopia’s nationalities and between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
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| spelling | doaj.art-cb59f0147f84457abd6e48151b22de2d2024-04-17T11:01:10ZengUniversity of Hradec KrálovéModern Africa2336-32742570-75582022-08-01101Oscillating Imaginaries: War, Peace, and the Precarious Relations between Eritrea and EthiopiaAmanda Poole0Jennifer Ann Riggan1Indiana University of Pennsylvania, United States of AmericaArcadia University, United States of America While the 2018 peace declaration between Ethiopia and Eritrea was widely celebrated, Eritrean refugees expressed concern that peace would be destabilising, and their status in Ethiopia would change. Their concerns were shaped by a long history of oscillating imaginaries of how Eritrea “fits” with Ethiopia. Drawing from historical analysis and ethnographic fieldwork leading up to the peace agreement, we explore how these oscillating imaginaries create an uncomfortable and unstable situation for Eritreans in Ethiopia, rendering refugees vulnerable to unpredictable violence. Better understanding the way identity categories have been subject to constant slippage and have been instrumentalised by political elites could help to forge a more peaceful future among Ethiopia’s nationalities and between Ethiopia and Eritrea. https://195.113.118.27/modernafrica/article/view/228multiple nationalismsslippery citizenshipvulnerability of refugeesthe precarity of peacethe politics of war |
| spellingShingle | Amanda Poole Jennifer Ann Riggan Oscillating Imaginaries: War, Peace, and the Precarious Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia Modern Africa multiple nationalisms slippery citizenship vulnerability of refugees the precarity of peace the politics of war |
| title | Oscillating Imaginaries: War, Peace, and the Precarious Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia |
| title_full | Oscillating Imaginaries: War, Peace, and the Precarious Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Oscillating Imaginaries: War, Peace, and the Precarious Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Oscillating Imaginaries: War, Peace, and the Precarious Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia |
| title_short | Oscillating Imaginaries: War, Peace, and the Precarious Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia |
| title_sort | oscillating imaginaries war peace and the precarious relations between eritrea and ethiopia |
| topic | multiple nationalisms slippery citizenship vulnerability of refugees the precarity of peace the politics of war |
| url | https://195.113.118.27/modernafrica/article/view/228 |
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