Unjust Developments: Building Inequalities in Ethiopia’s Capital

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Urban development practices and the actions of planners, government officials, and developers actively construct and perpetuate inequalities in Ethiopia's capital. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

Asebe Regassa

doi:10.1080/00083968.2026.2716470

September 2, 2026Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines

Unjust Developments: Building Inequalities in Ethiopia’s Capital

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Key Points

Investigate how urban planning, state governance, and commercial real estate development shape and reinforce socioeconomic inequalities in a rapidly modernizing capital city.
Over a decade of qualitative ethnographic fieldwork documenting ongoing urban transformation.
In-depth qualitative engagement and observation of urban planners, government officials, private developers, contractors, architects, and local residents.
Modernization and redevelopment initiatives systematically direct resources, legal protections, and capital toward elite stakeholders while displacing and marginalizing vulnerable urban populations.
Coordinated actions among state authorities, planning officials, and commercial contractors structurally entrench economic disparity across transformed urban spaces.

Implication

Ethnographic research uncovers systemic inequalities among urban residents, highlighting how modern planning and infrastructure initiatives deepen socioeconomic divides.

Abstract

Unjust Developments by Marco Di Nunzio is a book that, through more than a decade of ethnographic work, documents how planners, government officials, developers, contractors, architects, and reside...

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