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，我旨在巩固我的博士学位研究，并将其提供给学者，政策制定者和从业人员。奖学金将为我提供空间和资源，通过战略性的一对一会议以及通过知识交换研讨会与有针对性的从业者的观众与关键决策者进行知识交流活动。我将通过学术期刊论文吸引学术观众，并为一本书提出一本书的提案，以介绍我​​的博士学位。我还将通过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来开始扩大研究范围的工作。最后，奖学金还将通过允许我访问高级技能和方法培训，开发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人员的发展做出贡献。我的博士研究研究了埃塞俄比亚东非快速工业转型的主要例子，研究了城市工业政策分裂的问题。通过对城市工业政策制定和计划的基础研究，该研究发现计划失败是执政党内部政治动态变化的结果。政党国家核心综合机构，政党官僚机构和族裔联合会的逐步细分是整合挑战的核心。 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.从更广泛的角度来看，非洲在21世纪正在进行的激进转型的特点是这两个大型变革过程：其城市和工业过渡。目前，工业化是许多撒哈拉以南非洲国家的最高政策议程之一。这些国家在2008年非洲联盟峰会之后，在城市中追求以国家领导的以出口为导向的工业化，该峰会认可了非洲联盟对非洲加速工业发展的行动计划（AU，2011年）。撒哈拉以南非洲国家，尤其是东非国家，同时也经历了世界上一些最高的城市化率。虽然越来越多的学术体验表明，非洲的加速工业化对城市化产生了广泛的影响，反之亦然，但这两个变革的过程正在通过高度分散的国家行动来指导，这些行动在许多国家中从派系政党政治中散发出来。因此，我的研究结果为研究城市工业化政治的研究提供了有价值的见解，在更广泛的发展专制非洲国家中，迄今为止，该领域几乎尚未探索。在这种情况下，政治发展对于城市和工业政策的相对成功或其失败至关重要。然而，最近与非洲工业园区城市层面的奖学金并没有与政策分散的政治驱动力相关（Lawanson and Agunbiade，2018; G/Egziabher＆Yemeru，2020; Cheru and cheru and fikreselassie，2020年）。同时，更普遍的关于工业政治政治的奖学金倾向于忽略发展政治的城市层面，以解释经济发展计划的成功和失败（Whitfield等人，2015年，Chitonge and Lawrence，2020年）。我的博士研究和目前的研究研究了埃塞俄比亚城市结构转型的政治，以解决这些差距。