The Politics of Urban Industrialization: Integrating the Urban Industrial Nexus in Ethiopia's Disintegrating Party State

城市工业化的政治：整合埃塞俄比亚分崩离析的党国的城市工业联系

• 批准号: ES/Y007522/1
• 负责人: Selam Robi
• 金额: $ 12.42万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FY007522%2F1
• 关键词: Politics; Urban; Industrialization; Integrating; Industrial

Through this fellowship, I aim to consolidate my PhD research and make it available to academics, policy makers and practitioners. The fellowship will provide me with the space and resources to conduct knowledge exchange activities with key policy makers through strategic one-on-one meetings and with targeted practitioner audiences through a knowledge exchange workshop. I will reach academic audiences through academic journal papers, and developing a proposal for a book that will present the complete argument of my PhD. I will also start the work of expanding the scope of my research by undertaking limited new exploratory research on recent developments in the politics of urbanization in Ethiopia. Finally, The fellowship will also contribute to my development as an independent researcher by allowing me to access advanced skills and methods training, mentorship for developing a Leverhulme PDF proposal and various opportunities to build networks in my field. My PhD research examined the problem of urban-industrial policy fragmentation in a leading example of rapid industrial transformation in East Africa, Ethiopia. Through a grounded study of urban industrial policy making and planning, the research found planning failures to be the result of the shifting political dynamics within the ruling party. The gradual breakdown of the core integrative institutions of the party state, the party bureaucracy and the ethnic federation, are at the heart of the integration challenge. The infrastructural and housing challenges that emerged as a result of this dissociated planning have been partially resolved, but the emerging Ethiopian urban-industrial nexus as a whole remains undefined and unaccounted for by the plethora of isolated streams of development planning and intervention, indicating continued implications for Ethiopia's industrialization and urbanization in years ahead. More broadly, Africa's ongoing radical transformation in the 21st century is characterized by these two these mega processes of change: its urban and industrial transitions. Industrialization is currently one of the top policy agendas for a number of sub-Saharan African countries. These countries are pursuing rapid state-led export-oriented industrialization in cities following the 2008 African Union Summit that endorsed the African Union's Action Plan for the Accelerated Industrial Development of Africa (AU, 2011). Sub-Saharan African countries, and particularly East African countries, are at the same time experiencing some of the highest urbanization rates in the world. While a growing body of scholarship has demonstrated that Africa's accelerated industrialization has wide reaching consequences for urbanization and vice versa, these two processes of change are being steered through highly fragmented state action that emanates from factional party politics in many of these countries. The findings of my research therefore offer valuable insights to the study of the politics of urban industrialization in a broader range of developmental authoritarian African states, a field that is virtually unexplored to date. Political developments in those contexts were critical to the relative success of urban and industrial policy or their failure. However, recent scholarship that has engaged the urban dimension of Industrial Parks in Africa has not engaged the political drivers of policy fragmentation (Lawanson and Agunbiade, 2018; G/Egziabher & Yemeru, 2020; Cheru and Fikreselassie, 2020). At the same time, scholarship on the politics of industrialication, more generally, has tended to overlook the urban dimension of development politics in its explanations of the successes and failures of economic development planning (Whitfield et. Al., 2015, Chitonge and Lawrence, 2020). My PhD research and my current research looking at the politics of structural transformation in Ethiopian cities to address these gaps.

通过这项奖学金，我的目标是巩固我的博士研究成果，并将其提供给学者、政策制定者和从业者。该奖学金将为我提供空间和资源，以便通过战略性的一对一会议与主要政策制定者开展知识交流活动，并通过知识交流研讨会与目标从业者受众开展知识交流活动。我将通过学术期刊论文来接触学术读者，并制定一本书的提案，以呈现我的博士学位的完整论点。我还将开始扩大我的研究范围，对埃塞俄比亚城市化政治的最新发展进行有限的新探索性研究。最后，该奖学金还将让我获得先进的技能和方法培训、制定 Leverhulme PDF 提案的指导以及在我的领域建立网络的各种机会，从而为我作为独立研究员的发展做出贡献。我的博士研究以东非埃塞俄比亚快速工业转型的一个典型例子来研究城市工业政策碎片化的问题。通过对城市产业政策制定和规划的扎实研究，研究发现规划失败是执政党内部政治动态变化的结果。党国、党的官僚机构和民族联合会等核心一体化机构的逐渐崩溃是一体化挑战的核心。由于这种相互分离的规划而出现的基础设施和住房挑战已得到部分解决，但埃塞俄比亚新兴的城市与工业关系作为一个整体仍然没有明确定义，也没有被大量孤立的发展规划和干预措施所解释，这表明对埃塞俄比亚未来几年的工业化和城市化的持续影响。更广泛地说，非洲在 21 世纪正在进行的彻底转型的特点是这两个巨大的变革过程：城市转型和工业转型。工业化目前是许多撒哈拉以南非洲国家的首要政策议程之一。继 2008 年非洲联盟峰会批准非洲联盟加速非洲工业发展行动计划（AU，2011）之后，这些国家正在城市中寻求快速的国家主导的出口导向型工业化。撒哈拉以南非洲国家，特别是东非国家，同时正在经历世界上城市化率最高的一些国家。尽管越来越多的学术研究表明，非洲加速工业化对城市化产生了广泛影响，反之亦然，但这两个变革进程是通过高度分散的国家行动来引导的，而这些国家行动源于许多国家的派系政党政治。因此，我的研究结果为研究更广泛的发展型威权非洲国家的城市工业化政治提供了宝贵的见解，而这一领域迄今为止实际上尚未被探索。这些背景下的政治发展对于城市和产业政策的相对成功或失败至关重要。然而，最近研究非洲工业园区城市层面的学术研究并未涉及政策碎片化的政治驱动因素（Lawanson 和 Agunbiade，2018；G/Egziabher 和 Yemeru，2020；Cheru 和 Fikreselassie，2020）。与此同时，更普遍的工业化政治学术在解释经济发展规划的成功和失败时往往忽视了发展政治的城市维度（Whitfield et. Al., 2015; Chitonge and Lawrence, 2020）。我的博士研究和目前的研究着眼于埃塞俄比亚城市结构转型的政治，以解决这些差距。