ISBN:
978-1-64259-341-9
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 281 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
Published in paperback
Series Statement:
Historical Materialism Book Series 201
Keywords:
Äthiopien Bildung
;
Universität
;
Intellektuelle
;
Revolution
;
Geschichte
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Anthropologie, politische
;
Anthropologie, soziale
Abstract:
Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals. In these they explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist Ethiopia. Ethiopia in Theory examines the literature of this student movement, together with the movement's afterlife in Ethiopian politics and society, in order to ask: what does it mean to write today about the appropriation and indigenisation of Marxist and mainstream social science ideas in an Ethiopian and African context; and, importantly, what does the archive of revolutionary thought in Africa teach us about the practice of critical theory more generally? (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword /Donald L. Donham -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Note on citations -- Introduction -- Part 1. Knowledge production and social change in Ethiopia -- 1. The Children of the Revolution: Toward an Alternative Method -- 2. Social Science Is a Battlefield: Rethinking the Historiography of the Ethiopian Revolution -- 3. Challenge: Social Science in the Literature of the Ethiopian Student Movement -- 4. When Social Science Concepts Become Neutral Arbiters of Social Conflict: Rethinking the 2005 Elections in Ethiopia -- 5. Passive Revolution: Living in the Aftermath of the 2005 Elections -- Part 2. Theory as memoir -- 6. The Problem of the Social Sciences in Africa --Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [257]-272"This book project began as a PhD dissertaion in the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University (Toronto)" (Acknowledgements)
