@article{fdi:010069362, title = {({R}e)making politics in a new urban {E}thiopia : an empirical reading of the right to the city in {A}ddis {A}baba's condominiums}, author = {{P}lanel, {S}abine and {B}ridonneau, {M}.}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{T}his article analyses the {E}thiopian transition, particularly its social and political dimension based on an urban situation. {I}t contributes to the debate over the right to the city in a dynamic way by articulating the analytical fit between political experiments and city dwelling, which are apparent in an {E}thiopian context in a triangle of political emancipation, urban relocation and access to private property. {I}t focuses on the question of access to housing in a recent condominium development on the outskirts of {A}ddis {A}baba. {T}he article uses a situated, qualitative and localist approach to analyse the social project of housing policies, and especially the drive to create an urban middle class. {I}t breaks down the profiles and strategies of condominium dwellers and deconstructs the mechanical link between condominium and middle class. {F}inally, it addresses the capacity of citizens to produce a new social - and potentially a new political - order, or conversely, to reproduce the old socio-political order.}, keywords = {{U}rban redevelopment ; middle class ; access to housing ; right to the city ; city dwelling ; social order ; {E}thiopia ; {ETHIOPIE}}, booktitle = {}, journal = {{J}ournal of {E}astern {A}frican {S}tudies}, volume = {11}, numero = {1}, pages = {24--45}, ISSN = {1753-1055}, year = {2017}, DOI = {10.1080/17531055.2017.1285105}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010069362}, }