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Territories of Éthiopie. Stories, areas, powers
Symposium ¦ December 10th, 11th and 12th, 2008 (Cfee / Donatecarcenter.com)
Addis Abeba (Ethiopia) / French Centre of Ethiopian studies (CFEE)
Announcement
The history of the territories of Éthiopie was most often spelt from the point of view of central power, Christian State, according to three themes : the conquest of new regions by Christian power, Christianization of these won regions, controls it of walk by taxation and war. This bias is inherent in used material. Really, the most part of the historical texts are the product of the central State and deliver as a result a vision centered and idealised of the building of this State since the xiiie century until our days.
The purpose of this symposium is to move look away from the centre to examine in most near the relations which join a sovereign installed in a mobile central region and a constituted space by numerous territories all without the same status nor without the same degree of correlation with the royal administration. It will be a question here of describing the territorialisation of these areas.
Two regions will hold our attention more specifically : Lasta and Godjam. This choice explains by several reasons. Lasta and Godjam introduces divergent evolutions first of all within the Ethiopian kingdom – from central region of power, Lasta passed to a secondary status, while Godjam knew an inverse change. Besides, the material on Godjam as on Lasta allows to reconsider the history of the kingdom – and the structure of this one – according to other texts than those produced by the central State, while wondering about the building of these territories, their unstable identity and the production of a clean history. However, they could not lose the contribution of contributions concerning other regions of Éthiopie (included in the current borders) and by Érythrée which will be able to manifest territorialisation other experiments of.
We exclude a priori no approach, favouring on the contrary the game of ladders, since a micro-regional vision interested for example in a point of passage (border, stage) between two regions in a macro-regional vision which, by the study of routes or of networks, would emphasise the integration of territories in a larger group.
The feature of this symposium is to envisage this territorialisation in its reports in time, particularly by considering the political uses of history, and one of his stakes domiciles in the establishment of footbridges between jobs on the contemporary and those led on past, by confronting methodological and conceptual approaches.
Symposium will get organised around three following sessions :
1. Territorialisation : borders, roads, networks and hierarchies
The territorialisation of a space passes by the definition of borders. If it is not possible to be definite for all regional borders, some lightings on particular frontier areas, that they are representative or on the contrary unusual, will be able to bring elements of reflexion around notably from the perception of the space in Éthiopie.
Moreover, roads impose another linéarité, different from that of border. It is perhaps more in progression along a road crossing several regions that regions just distinguish themselves. They know at which instant (by crossing of a river, by arrival on a set, by access to a ravine, by passage near a church, by settlement of customs duties) a region is left to enter other one. But therefore, do they know where court then border between two regions, on both sides of this road ? Perhaps here it is necessary to introduce a differentiation between a local perception of the regional border and an exogène perception, that of the passenger, of the representative of the central State, who received in another way these borders, marked in routes more than from a zonal point of view. It is therefore a question of ladder. The road is also the line which draws the upper power in movement to control a space next to religious, well-read and commercial networks which constitute another mesh size of occupation and of control of the space.
2. The perception of the space in the constitution of territorial identity
A territory defines itself so sometimes by cultural categories (languages, religions) or criteria natural (vigour of the relief, climate, type of culture). What role do these play in the individuality of Lasta or of Godjam, for example, in relation to the Christian kingdom ? For example, is the agaw identity a key element to define Lasta ? Or else, does the qebat party in Godjam constitute a distinctive mark of the region ?
3. History and memory : rewritings and use in the building of the state space
If it is possible to determine in given period what constitutes regional identity, it is also necessary to be interested in the role of memory in regional perception and in the reconstructions which give to borders a linear history, imposing the idea of a national building always in motion according to a pre-established plan and giving to read a contemporary situation as being the logical culmination of a long process always striving towards the same objective, the territorial justification of Éthiopie historical and idealised. At the same time, it will be necessary to analyse different stages of writing of history by the groups of power, in their stakes and their objectives.
Programme
Tuesday the 9th of December
5 pm – Welcoming drink
Screening of the film of Alessandron Triulzi, “Like has Man one Earth”
Wednesday the 10th of December
Morning, 9-12 am
Chairman : François-Xavier Fauvelle
Clear Bosc-Tiessé and Mary-Laura Derat, Introduction
Mary-Laura Derat, The Territory of the Zagwe Dynasty in the 12th and 13th Centuries
Clear Bosc-Tiessé, The Geographical and Political Identity of Lasta (c. On 1660-1750)
Bertrand Hirsch, Itineraries and Territories in the Muslim Kingdoms of Ethiopia, 13th-16th Centuries
Afternoon, 2-6 pm
Chairman : Bertrand Hirsch
Hiluf Berhe, The Sabeans in Ethiopia
Ayda Bouanga, The Integration of the Gafat into the Kingdom of Ethiopia, 13th-18th Centuries
Alessandro Triulzi, Negotiating Power within the Empire : has Letter Exchange Between Naqamte and Addis Ababa
Chikage Ôba, The Abyssinian Conquest from the Boorana Perspective of
Thursday, the 11th of December
Morning, 9-12 am
Chairman : Shiferaw Bekele
Eloi Ficquet, The First Cartographic Representations of the Divisions Territorial of the Ethiopian Contemporary State, on 1909-1935
Simon Imbert-Vier and Shiferaw Bekele, from The Railway Territory on 1894 to on 1959
Stephane Ancel, Territories, Ecclesiastic Jurisdictions and Centralization Process : the Improvement of the Ethiopian Patriarchate Authority (1972-1983)
Afternoon, 2-6 pm
Chairman : Alessandro Triulzi
Colette Dubois, Banking and Territory Networks. The Bank of Indochina in French Somalia and the Bank of Abyssinia (and its successors) in the Ethiopian Empire operating in the other Territories
Simon Imbert-Vier, The Making of the Djibouti Territory (1888-1954) : Accomplishment of the International Terrestrial Boundaries of the French Coast of Somali (1184-1954) ?
Bezounesh Tamrou, Current Cities Network and Territorial Resettling in Ethiopia
Bernard Lortic, Ethiopia from the Space
Friday, the 12th of December
Morning, 9-12 am
Chairman : Anaïs Wion
Manuel Ramos, Oral The Space of the in the History of the Building of Kingly Territories in Gondar, Northern Ethiopia
Thomas Osmond, National Heritage Claims and Imagination. The Churches of Lalibela in the Ethiopian Federal State
Wolbert Smidt, Re-Interpretation and Tigrinnisation of the Oral History in Tradition of Tigrinnya Groups
Afternoon, 2-6 pm
Chairman : Claire Bosc Tiessé
Anaïs Wion, Aksum Seyon Church Territory : First Steps for has Micro-Analysis of its Tributary Lands and the Tournaments in the Charter Writings of its, Regulations and History
Manfred Kropp, Nominal old Property Transfer of Private Land and Tax Exemption ace Insurance : the Traditional Economic Structure of year Ethiopian Monastery (Estifanos, Hayq)
Habtamu Mengistie, Territorial identity Land Tenures and, 18th-19th Centuries
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