Ethiopia in theory : : revolution and knowledge production, 1964-2016 / / Elleni Centime Zeleke.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series ; Volume 201
• VerfasserIn: Zeleke, E. Centime, 1972-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 201.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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?

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page / Elleni Centime Zeleke -- Foreword / Elleni Centime Zeleke -- Acknowledgements / Elleni Centime Zeleke -- Abbreviations / Elleni Centime Zeleke -- Note on Citations / Elleni Centime Zeleke -- Introduction / Elleni Centime Zeleke -- Knowledge Production and Social Change in Ethiopia / Elleni Centime Zeleke -- The Children of the Revolution: Toward an Alternative Method / Elleni Centime Zeleke -- Social Science Is a Battlefield: Rethinking the Historiography of the Ethiopian Revolution / Elleni Centime Zeleke -- Challenge: Social Science in the Literature of the Ethiopian Student Movement / Elleni Centime Zeleke -- When Social Science Concepts Become Neutral Arbiters of Social Conflict: Rethinking the 2005 Elections in Ethiopia / Elleni Centime Zeleke -- Passive Revolution: Living in the Aftermath of the 2005 Elections / Elleni Centime Zeleke -- Theory as Memoir / Elleni Centime Zeleke -- The Problem of the Social Sciences in Africa / Elleni Centime Zeleke -- Back Matter -- Bibliography / Elleni Centime Zeleke -- Index / Elleni Centime Zeleke.