Ethiopia in Theory
Subtitle: Revolution and Knowledge Production, 1964-2016
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9789004414754
Subjects: Student movements; Ethiopia, social life and customs; College students; Ethiopia, history
Description: "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?"--