This book focuses on and examines the impact of cultural capital, political economy, social movements, and political consciousness on the potential development of substantive democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia. While explaining the challenges, obstacles, and opportunities for the development of democracy, Cultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia engages in defining democracy as a contested, open, and expanding concept through a comparative and historical examination. The book’s analysis employs interdisciplinary, multidimensional, comparative methods and critical approaches to examine the dynamic interplay among social structures, human agencies, cultural factors, and social movements. This comparative and historical study has required an examination of critical social history that looks at societal issues from the bottom up: specifically critical discourse and the particular world system approach, which deal with long-term and large-scale social changes.\nCultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia will be of interest to scholars and students of African politics, political theory, and democratization.

Cultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia (African Governance)

Jalata, Asafa

Reference

Routledge

Phases of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization: From Christopher Columbus to Osama bin Laden

Phases of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization considers terrorism as an aspect of the capitalist world system for almost five centuries. Jalata's research reveals that terrorism can emerge from above as state terrorism and below as subversive organizations or groups.

Science & Math

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Applies the concept of oppressor and oppressed nationalisms to explore the historical forces and social processes that have shaped modern Ethiopia. This book demonstrates how oppressor Ethiopian nationalism rationalizes and justifies the hierarchical organization of various peoples or ethnonations and how oppressed Oromo nationalism provides an ideology or a vision and a program for seeking self-determination and sovereignty by radically transforming the Ethiopian colonial state and its racist political structures and by promoting a multinational democracy. Since studies of nationalism are complicated by competing ideologies and interpretations, this work goes beyond the artificial boundaries of the social sciences and intellectual paradigms by employing interdisciplinary, multidimensional, and historical and comparative methods, and critical approaches that include political economy, multiculturalism, and critical theoretical and historical methodology. Professor Jalata has earned a reputation as one of the foremost authorities on Oromia and Ethiopia. His latest work applies the concept of oppressor and oppressed nationalisms to explore the historical forces and social processes that have shaped modern Ethiopia. His impeccable scholarship is matched by an admirable commitment to social justice. This is a masterful study, a must read for those who wish to understand politics in the Horn of Africa as well as the nature and role of contending nationalisms in the contemporary world capitalist system. William I. Robinson Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies University of California at Santa Barbara Is ethnic nationalism compatible with democratic pluralism? Can there be racism between groups of the same skin color? Can a state take pride in being an Empire and still deny being imperialist? These are just three of the hotly controversial paradoxes addressed by this volume. Until the last quarter of the twentieth century the Ethiopian state took pride in its Emperor but denied being a colonial power. The fall of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 triggered a new awakening among the subject peoples of the Ethiopian state, among whom the Oromo are the largest and perhaps most articulate. This book powerfully examines the clash of nationalisms between the dominant Ethiopian elites and the newly assertive subordinate nations. The volume is enriched by comparative insights about other societies, by a cultural analysis of the Oromo heritage, and by a challenging exploration of how democracy in Africa can be indigenized. Ali A. Mazrui Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities Director, Institue of Global Cultural Studies Professor of Political Science, African Studies and Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture Binghamton University, State University of New York

Contending Nationalisms of Oromia and Ethiopia: Struggling for Statehood, Sovereignty, and Multinational Democracy

History

Africa

Global Academic Pub

This book identifies and examines the role of Baro Tumsa in clandestinely bringing together a few Oromo nationalists of diverse backgrounds from all over Oromia, the Oromo country, to establish the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) between the late 1960s and the mid- 1970s in Oromia and Ethiopia. The Haile Selassie government's destruction of Oromo movements, mainly the Macha-Tulama Self-Help Association (MTA), was an immediate reason for the birth of the front. While most Oromos have supported and sympathized with this liberation organization, the colonizers and their agents have vilified and attacked it to make the Oromo society leaderless. For almost a half-century, the OLF has been struggling to uproot Ethiopian (Amhara-Tigray) settler colonialism and its institutions from Oromia to end the domination and exploitation of the Oromo. The book also examines the roles of leaders and social movements in organizing oppressed peoples for collective actions by creating organizations that have visions and missions to liberate themselves. It is a case study of global social movements and leadership studies.

Baro Tumsa: The Principal Architect of the Oromo Liberation Front

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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