My blogs

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Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	Educator, Poet, Researcher
Location	Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
Introduction	My PhD research project, "Ethnography of Resistance Poetics" (https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/20243/Dibaba_indiana_0093A_13630.pdf;sequence=1); was an interdisciplinary project that theorizes folklore performance as creative resistance and ecopoetic practices which focus on traditional knowledge tied to the environment and geared to living in harmony with nature. My current research interest focuses, among others, on the role of local knowledge (cultural ecology) to balance the ethically challenged human-environment relationship in the face of rapid social changes. I was relocated to USA in 2010 awarded the 2009/2010 IIE/SRF Scholars Fellowship after repeated persecutions and imprisonments in Ethiopia as a poet (dissident writer), educator, and researcher and for speaking to the repressive power. So Articles you read here on E T H N O E C O L O GY are NOT chapters out of my PhD Dissertation. They are results of my ongoing research during and after my study here in USA (2011-2015) based on my personal experience, observation, available print data, and the fieldwork data I collected in 2009 and 2010 in Oromia/Ethiopia. .
Interests	Environmentalism & Expressive Cultures, (Environmental Folklore), Research Activism, Resistance Studies, Nature Poetry, Women Folklore, Rituals, Tradition, Personal Narratives