Ayehu Bacha Teso
Ayehu Bacha is a PhD researcher at the Department of Conflict and Development Studies, Ghent University. Using an ethnographic approach, his PhD project tries to uncover the dynamics of urbanization and ethnic contestations in peri-urban areas of Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa cities, Ethiopia. Accordingly, the dialectics of (peri) urbanization, politically induced (re) resettlements, the political economy of ‘informal’/’illegal’ settlements, land tenure arrangements, urban sprawls, and urban planning and development strategies are dealt with in the context of ethnically polarized cities.
New Panel Presentation: Addis Ababa’s Peri-urbanisation
This presentation on 27 October during the conference on Urban Politics in the Global South will discuss peri-urbanisation as a microcosm or contestations over state formation in Ethiopia.
The Dynamics of Urbanisation and Ethnic Contestations in Peri-urban Areas of Ethiopia: Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa cities in Focus
With experiences of ethnographic fieldwork, this Ph.D. research project unearths the dialectics of urbanisation and ethnic contestations in peri-urban areas of Ethiopia by focusing on Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa cities.
Current research projects:
The Dynamics of Urbanisation and Ethnic Contestations in Peri-urban Areas of Ethiopia: Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa cities in Focus
With experiences of ethnographic fieldwork, this Ph.D. research project unearths the dialectics of urbanisation and ethnic contestations in peri-urban areas of Ethiopia by focusing on Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa cities.