Eva Poluha

Eva Poluha is Senior Associate Professor from the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University and has spent over 40 years researching people-state relations, gender, ethnicity, children's acquisition of culture as well as political change in Ethiopia. Her focus has been on the exercise of power and its various interpretations and on requirements for development to take place in Ethiopia. Poluha's main approach has been participant observation, watching and talking to the people she has studied. Poluha's publications include Central Planning and Local Reality – The Case of a Producers Cooperative in Ethiopia (1989), The Power of Continuity - Ethiopia Through the Eyes of Its Children (2004), “Contesting 'Good' Governance – Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Representation, Accountability and Public Space” (ed. 2002) and “The World of Girls and Boys in Rural and Urban Ethiopia” (ed. 2007). More information at https://www.poluhafeleke.com/