Title: Ethiopia in theory : revolution and knowledge production, 1964-2016 /
Authors: Zeleke, E. Centime, 1972-
Year: 2020
Subjects: Student movements Ethiopia.; Ethiopians Foreign countries Intellectual life; Ethiopians Foreign countries Intellectual life; College students Ethiopia Intellectual life; College students Ethiopia Intellectual life; College students Intellectual life; Student movements; Ethiopia History; Ethiopia
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?"--
Contents: Introduction -- The Children of the Revolution: Toward an Alternative Method -- Social Science Is a Battlefield: Rethinking the Historiography of the Ethiopian Revolution -- Challenge: Social Science in the Literature of the Ethiopian Student Movement -- When Social Science Concepts Become Neutral Arbiters of Social Conflict: Rethinking the 2005 Elections in Ethiopia -- Passive Revolution: Living in the Aftermath of the 2005 Elections -- The Problem of the Social Sciences in Africa