TY - JOUR
T1 - The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
T2 - Media Narratives and State Building
AU - Belay, Yeshiwas Degu
AU - Fantini, Emanuele
AU - Gagliardone, Iginio
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This article explores how Ethiopian mainstream media portray the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), perhaps the most relevant materialisation of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF)’s developmental state approach. Through critical discourse analysis of a sample of articles from private media outlets from 2013 to 2020, we map the plurality of narratives employed by the media to represent the GERD and the Nile river. We analyse how changes and continuities in these narratives are related to the process of state building in Ethiopia, and to the unfolding of political events in the Easter-Nile basin. We conclude by pointing at how the continuity in the narratives about the GERD resonate with state-building discourses and strategies under different political regimes.
AB - This article explores how Ethiopian mainstream media portray the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), perhaps the most relevant materialisation of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF)’s developmental state approach. Through critical discourse analysis of a sample of articles from private media outlets from 2013 to 2020, we map the plurality of narratives employed by the media to represent the GERD and the Nile river. We analyse how changes and continuities in these narratives are related to the process of state building in Ethiopia, and to the unfolding of political events in the Easter-Nile basin. We conclude by pointing at how the continuity in the narratives about the GERD resonate with state-building discourses and strategies under different political regimes.
U2 - 10.23810/1345.ETIOPIADEGUBELAYFANTINIGAGLIARDONE
DO - 10.23810/1345.ETIOPIADEGUBELAYFANTINIGAGLIARDONE
M3 - Article
SN - 1592-6753
JO - Afriche e Orienti
JF - Afriche e Orienti
IS - 2
ER -