Ethiopia in theory : revolution and knowledge production, 1964-2016
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Ethiopia in theory : revolution and knowledge production, 1964-2016
（Historical materialism book series）
Haymarket Books, 2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-272) and index
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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 them, these students 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 a vital question: 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, further, what does the archive of revolutionary thought in Africa teach us about the practice of critical theory more generally?
Table of Contents
Foreword by Donald L. Donham
Acknowledgments
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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
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