Two fundamental issues should be made clear regarding resistance against development interventions in Ethiopia: 1) It has been evident that people are not against development per se. Whether dam, irrigation, foreign investment, urbanization...development projects should address fundamental rights and needs of the citizens. Under contexts where the people are recognized as rightful citizens whose voices, views and knowledge contribute to the overall development vision through genuine participatory approaches, it would be expected, to a large extent, that development mobilizes the society towards similar goals of the state. 2) On the contrary, regardless of the power of domination the intervening actor might have, development intervention faces the utmost resistance from the people whose livelihood, culture, language, identity and history will be affected. The ongoing integrated urban development of Finfinne city, and the resistance it generated should be understood inline with the above arguments.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:59:27 +0000
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