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State Territorialization at the Margins: Property Formalization and Paperwork in the Ethiopian Somali Frontier
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 4605677
Author(s) Emmenegger, Rony
Author(s) at UniBasel Emmenegger, Rony
Year 2020
Title State Territorialization at the Margins: Property Formalization and Paperwork in the Ethiopian Somali Frontier
Journal Geoforum
Volume 116
Pages / Article-Number 193-200
Abstract This paper scrutinizes property formalization as an integral part of state territorialization and demonstrates how bounded spaces are fused with political authority. Despite a long history of contestations over land in the Ethiopian Somali frontier, state law gained significance as a regulatory frame to grant and secure property rights of ethnic Somalis in the city of Jigjiga. In the city's land registry archive, this increased the amount of paperwork through which the relation between the Ethiopian state and Somali citizens has been remade under ethnic federal rule. Based on ethnographic and archival research in Jigjiga, this paper examines the writing practices and performances of land governance experts at different sites of paperwork where property relations are brought on paper and drawn together into law and institutional hierarchies. It reveals property formalization to consolidate state-citizen relations in symbolic and material form: in the city's expansion area where law is entangled within an emerging property landscape, and in the city's registry archive where legal documents are preserved. On that basis, this paper captures state formation as both a cultural and material process. It does so by highlighting the mediating role of bureaucratic actors and artifacts in the inscription of the state's symbolic languages in an emerging property landscape.
Publisher Elsevier
ISSN/ISBN 0016-7185
edoc-URL https://edoc.unibas.ch/79028/
Full Text on edoc No
Digital Object Identifier DOI 10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.08.007
ISI-Number WOS:000591892200021
Document type (ISI) Article
 
   

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