Publications of Dereje Feyissa

Eidson, John R., Dereje Feyissa, Veronika Fuest, Markus Virgil Hoehne, Boris Nieswand, Günther Schlee, and Olaf Zenker. 2017. From identification to framing and alignment: a new approach to the comparative analysis of collective identities. Current Anthropology 58(3): 340–351. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/691970.

Feyissa, Dereje and Bruce B. Lawrence. 2014. Muslims renegotiating marginality in contemporary Ethiopia. Muslim World 104(3): 281–305. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/muwo.12056.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2012. The transnational politics of the Ethiopian Muslim diaspora. Ethnic and Racial Studies 35(11): 1893–1913.

Hoehne, Markus Virgil, Dereje Feyissa, and Mahdi Abdile. 2011. Somali and Ethiopian diasporic engagement for peace in the Horn of Africa. African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review 1(1): 71–99.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2010. The cultural construction of state borders: the view from Gambella. Journal of Eastern African Studies 4(2): 314–330. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2010.487341.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2006. Decentralisation as ethnic closure, with special reference to a declining negotiated access to natural resources in Western Ethiopia. Afrique et Developpement 31(2): 243–260.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2017. Political systems of Ethiopia. In: Siegbert Uhlig, David Appleyard, Alessandro Bausi, Wolfgang Hahn, and Steven Kaplan (eds.). Ethiopia: history, culture and challenges. Afrikanische Studien 58. Berlin; Münster; Wien; Zürich; London; East Lansing: LIT; Michigan State University Press, pp. 255–258.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2014. The pure, the real, and the chosen: the encounter between the Anywaa, the Nuer, and the Highlanders in Gambella. In: Felix Girke (ed.). Ethiopian images of self and other. Schriften des Zentrums für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien 2. Halle/Saale: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, pp. 171–196.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2014. The 2007 delegation of the Muslim diaspora to Ethiopia. In: Liisa Laakso and Petri Hautaniemi (eds.). Diasporas, development and peacemaking in the Horn of Africa. Africa Now. London: ZED, pp. 98–121.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2013. Muslims struggling for recognition in contemporary Ethiopia. In: Patrick Desplat and Terje Østebø (eds.). Muslim Ethiopia: the Christian legacy, identity politics, and Islamic reformism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 25–46.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2013. Alternative citizenship: the Nuer between Ethiopia and the Sudan. In: Christopher Vaughan (ed.). The borderlands of South Sudan: authority and identity in contemporary and historical perspectives. Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 109–131.

Hoehne, Markus Virgil and Dereje Feyissa. 2013. Centering borders and borderlands: the evidence from Africa. In: Benedikt Korf and Timothy Raeymaekers (eds.). Violence on the margins: states, conflict, and borderlands. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 55–84.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2012. Electoral politics in the Nuer cultural context. In: Kjetil Tronvoll and Tobias Hagmann (eds.). Contested power in Ethiopia: traditional authorities and multi-party elections. African Social Studies Series. Leiden: Brill, pp. 31–60.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2010. Conflicts within the Ethiopian federation: a reappraisal. In: Alem Habtu (ed.). Ethiopian federalism: principles, process and practice. Addis Abeba: Addis Abeba University, pp. 215–225.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2010. More state than the state? The Anywaa's call for the rigidification of the Ethio-Sudanese border. In: Dereje Feyissa and Markus Virgil Hoehne (eds.). Borders and borderlands as resources in the Horn of Africa. Eastern Africa Series. Woodbridge: Currey, pp. 27–44.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2010. A national perspective on the conflict in Gambella. In: Harald Aspen (ed.). Research in Ethiopian studies: selected papers of the 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Trondheim July 2007. Aethiopistische Forschungen 72. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 418–431.

Feyissa, Dereje and Markus Virgil Hoehne. 2010. State borders and borderlands as resources: an analytical framework. In: Dereje Feyissa and Markus Virgil Hoehne (eds.). Borders and borderlands as resources in the Horn of Africa. Eastern Africa Series. Woodbridge: Currey, pp. 1–26.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2009. Conflict and identity politics: the case of Anywaa-Nuer relations in Gambela, western Ethiopia. In: Günther Schlee and Elizabeth E. Watson (eds.). Changing identifications and alliances in North-East Africa: 2; Sudan, Uganda, and the Ethiopia-Sudan borderlands. Integration and Conflict Studies 3. New York: Berghahn, pp. 181–203.

Feyissa, Dereje and Günther Schlee. 2009. Mbororo (Fulbe) migrations from Sudan into Ethiopia. In: Günther Schlee and Elizabeth E. Watson (eds.). Changing identifications and alliances in North-East Africa: 2; Sudan, Uganda, and the Ethiopia-Sudan borderlands. Integration and Conflict Studies 3. New York; Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 157–178.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2008. Customary dispute resolution institutions in Gambella Region: the case of the Nuer. In: Alulua Pankhurst and Assefa Getachew (eds.). Grass-roots justice in Ethiopia: the contribution of customary dispute resolution. Addis Ababa: Centre Français d'Études Éthiopiennes, pp. 133–154.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2008. Layers of conflict in the Gambella region: an interactive approach. In: Eva-Maria Bruchhaus and Monika M. Sommer (eds.). Hot spot Horn of Africa revisited: approaches to make sense of conflict. Afrikanische Studien 37. Berlin: LIT, pp. 146–158.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2008. The ethnic self and the national other: the identity politics of the Anywaa in reference to the Ethiopian state. In: Bahru Zewde (ed.). Society, state and identity in African history. Addis Ababa: Forum for Social Studies, pp. 123–153.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2006. Ethnic federalism and conflicting political projects: the case of Anywaa-Nuer relations in the Gambela regional state. In: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.). Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies: Hamburg July 20 - 25, 2003. Aethiopistische Forschungen 65. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 953–960.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2006. The experience of Gambella regional state. In: David Turton (ed.). Ethnic federalism: the Ethiopian experience in comparative perspective. Eastern African Studies. Oxford: Currey, pp. 208–230.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2005. Land and the politics of identity: the case of Anuak-Nuer relations in the Gambella region, Western Ethiopia. In: Sandra Evers (ed.). Competing jurisdictions: settling land claims in Africa. Leiden: Brill, pp. 203–222.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2003. The socio-economic status of Artisans among the Oyda of Southern Ethiopia. In: Dena Freeman and Alula Pankhurst (eds.). Peripheral people: the excluded minorities of Ethiopia. London: Hurst, pp. 149–171.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2007. A national perspective on the conflict in Gambella. 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies 3. Department of Social Anthropology, Trondheim University, 2007-07-02.

Feyissa, Dereje. Ethnic groups and conflict: the case of the Anywaa-Nuer relations in the Gambela Region, Western Ethiopia. PhD Thesis, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.

Abbink, Jon, Kelly Askew, Dereje Feyissa, Elliot Fratkin, Echi Christina Gabbert, John Galaty , Shauna LaTosky, Jean Lydall, Hussein A. Mahmoud, John Markakis, Günther Schlee, Ivo Strecker , and David Turton. 2014. Lands of the future: transforming pastoral lands and livelihoods in eastern Africa. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 154. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0019-B2F7-7.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2011. Setting a social reform agenda: the peacebuilding dimension of the rights movement of the Ethiopian Muslims diaspora. Diaspeace Working Paper 9. Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä.

Hoehne, Markus Virgil, Dereje Feyissa, Mahdi Abdile, and Clara Schmitz-Pranghe. 2010. Differentiating the diaspora: reflections on diasporic engagement "for peace" in the Horn of Africa. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 124. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-900A-9.

Donahoe, Brian, John Eidson, Dereje Feyissa, Veronika Fuest, Markus V. Hoehne, Boris Nieswand, Günther Schlee, and Olaf Zenker. 2009. The formation and mobilization of collective identities in situations of conflict and integration. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 116. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-934B-1.

Feyissa, Dereje and Markus Virgil Hoehne. 2008. Resourcing state borders and borderlands in the Horn of Africa. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 107. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-94A1-4.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2007. Die Identitätspolitik der Anywaa-Diaspora. Bericht/Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Abteilung I: Integration und Konflikt 2007. https://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/institute-reports/pdf/institute-report-2007-integration-and-conflict-de#page=106.

Feyissa, Dereje and Markus Virgil Hoehne (eds.). 2010. Borders and borderlands as resources in the Horn of Africa. Eastern Africa Series. Woodbridge: Currey.

Feyissa, Dereje. 2011. Playing different games: the paradox of Anywaa and Nuer identification strategies in the Gambella region, Ethiopia. Integration and Conflict Studies 4. New York: Berghahn.