Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel is a human geographer with an interdisciplinary focus on how politics, the state and market actors shape the relationships between people and their environments. His research spans social and environmental justice, the politics of violence, humanitarianism, and conservation, with a particular emphasis on how policy and power dynamics influence lives and livelihoods in contested landscapes.
This article first appeared in Political Geography Volume 118.
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