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SUMMARY:An inverted social contract. Development\, political authoritarian
 ism and the production of marginality in inner city Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia
  - Dr Marco Di Nunzio (FNRS Postdoctoral Fellow\, Université Libre de Bru
 xelles) 
DTSTART:20160222T170000Z
DTEND:20160222T183000Z
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CONTACT:Victoria Jones
DESCRIPTION:This paper investigates urban marginality as a product of the 
 strategies political elites in Ethiopia have historically used to ground t
 heir power at the bottom of urban society. With a focus on inner city Addi
 s Ababa\, I first trace how the political history of contemporary Ethiopia
  has played out on the streets and affected streetlife as terrain of econo
 mic and political practice in the city. I then explore the transformations
  of the street economy in the aftermath of post-election riots and demonst
 rations in 2005\, during which 200 people were killed and 30\,000 detained
  in Addis Ababa and other major towns. Finally\, I will show how the more 
 recent concern of the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic
  Front with developing the street economy has entailed an expansion of the
  state’s apparatus of control and reinforced conditions of social exclus
 ion. By combining ethnography with a historical analysis of streetlife\, t
 his paper explores how enduring marginality and political subjugation have
  defined the terms of poor people’s integration in wider society. 
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 9DT
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