Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Futuremaking with Pastoralists Echi Christina Gabbert Part I: Setting the Context: Modernity and Citizenship in Pastoral Areas Chapter 1. Modern Mobility in East Africa: Pastoral Responses to Rangeland Fragmentation, Enclosure and Settlement John G. Galaty Chapter 2. Unequal Citizenship and One-Sided Communication: Anthropological Perspectives on Collective Identification in the Context of Large-Scale Land Transfers in Ethiopia Günther Schlee Chapter 3. Global Trade, Local Realities: Why African States Undervalue Pastoralism Peter D. Little Part II: Contested Identities and Territories: A History of Expropriation Chapter 4. Modes of Dispossession of Indigenous Lands and Territories in Africa Elifuraha I. Laltaika and Kelly M. Askew Chapter 5. Land and the State in Ethiopia John Markakis Chapter 6. Persistent Expropriation of Pastoral Lands: The Afar Case Maknun Ashami and Jean Lydall Part III: Power, Politics and Reactions to State-Building Chapter 7. Anatomy of a White Elephant: Investment Failure and Land Conflicts on Ethiopia’s Oromia–Somali Frontier Jonah Wedekind Chapter 8. From Cattle Herding to Charcoal Burning: Land Expropriation, State Consolidation and Livelihood Changes in Abaya Valley, Southern Ethiopia Asebe Regassa Chapter 9. Villagization in Ethiopia’s Lowlands: Development vs. Facilitating Control and Dispossession Fana Gebresenbet Part IV: Underdeveloping South Omo Chapter 10. ‘Breaking Every Rule in the Book’: The Story of River Basin Development in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley David Turton Chapter 11. State-Building in the Ethiopian South-Western Lowlands: Experiencing the Brunt of State Power in Mela Lucie Buffavand Chapter 12. Customary Land Use and Local Consent Practices in Mun (Mursi): A New Call for Meaningful FPIC Standards in Southern Ethiopia Shauna LaTosky Chapter 13. Ethiopia’s ‘Blue Oil’? Hydropower, Irrigation and Development in the Omo-Turkana Basin Edward G.J. Stevenson and Benedikt Kamski Conclusion: Pastoralists for Future Echi Christina Gabbert, Fana Gebresenbet and Jonah Wedekind Glossary Index