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Ramos, M. (2014). What’s so special about Ethiopian politics?. 9º Congresso Ibérico de Estudos Africanos,.
M. J. Ramos, "What’s so special about Ethiopian politics?", in 9º Congr.o Ibérico de Estudos Africanos, Coimbra, 2014
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TY - GEN TI - What’s so special about Ethiopian politics? T2 - 9º Congresso Ibérico de Estudos Africanos AU - Ramos, M. PY - 2014 CY - Coimbra UR - http://www.ces.uc.pt/ficheiros2/files/CIEA9_final%20abstracts.pdf AB - This paper proposes to tap both into the history of Ethiopian-Western relations and the multifactorial proclivities of that country’s political system to understand: 1) How international expectations about the democratization and accountability of the Ethiopian ethnic federal system are fed by elaborate and tightly-controlled translation and PR practices, while at the same time maintaining traditional procedures of power politics, and; 2) What this split may say about the limitations of a (mostly Western-grounded) transnational-transcultural-translinguistic framework for typifying political systems. Furthermore, it proposes to discuss the rise of Muslim-based political agency in Ethiopia within the wider framework of the Horn of Africa - particularly considering the factitious nature of the region’s state-making processes ER -
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