Ethiopia in Theory

Revolution and Knowledge Production, 1964-2016

Elleni Centime Zeleke

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Haymarket Books
11 January 2021

African history; Social & cultural history; Social theory

Series: Historical Materialism

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?

By: Elleni Centime Zeleke
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781642593419
ISBN 10: 1642593419
Series: Historical Materialism
Pages: 281
Publication Date: 11 January 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword by Donald L. Donham Acknowledgments 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

Elleni Centime Zeleke, Ph.D (2016), is Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. Her previous work has been published by the Journal of North East African Studies and Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters.

Reviews for Ethiopia in Theory: Revolution and Knowledge Production, 1964-2016

This superb book will transform all discussions concerning the production of knowledge. Ranging through the archives, moving across philosophy and critical theory, and traversing social history, Ethiopia in Theory frames a stunningly original account of the Ethiopian student movement of the 1960s and '70s as a site for the production of radical social science. Rather than the mere reception of revolutionary theory in an African context, Zeleke shows us the dynamics of its generation. There is truly nothing in the literature that comes close to the depth of this multi-leveled, interdisciplinary study. Zeleke 's outstanding book deserves the widest possible readership in social history, African studies, post-colonial analysis, and Marxist and critical theory in general. --David McNally, Cullen Distinguished Professor of History, University of Houston, author of Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism