Memoirs of a Dalit Communist by R.B. More

Her published works include The Unsettled Land: State-making and the Politics of Land in Zimbabwe, 1893–2003 and Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the 'Dark Forests' of Matabeleland, co-authored with JoAnn McGregor and Terence Ranger. Jocelyn Alexanderis Professor of Commonwealth Studies at the University of Oxford.

She is the author of Ethiopia In Theory: Revolution and Knowledge Production,1964–2016, among other published works. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.Įlleni Centime Zeleke is Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. Please email to request disability accommodations. 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 indigenization 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. Celebrating Recent Work by Elleni Centime ZelekeĮthiopia in Theory: Revolution and Knowledge Production, 1964-2016īetween the years 19, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals where they explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist Ethiopia.

Memoirs of a Dalit Communist by R.B. More