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Ethiopia in Transit - Millennial Quest for Stability and Continuity (Hardcover)
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Ethiopia in Transit - Millennial Quest for Stability and Continuity (Hardcover)
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The writings in this edition explore historical and contemporary
issues in Ethiopia as the country underwent change and celebrated
its new millennium. However, despite the recognizance of
socio-economic and political changes, Ethiopia still faces enduring
problems and challenges to its stability and continuity. The
political past haunts the country while it is facing the future
with optimism and hope. The contributors in this edition examine
historical and contemporaneous issues with different lenses; they
investigate the multiplicity and complexity of the contradictions
that define traditional and modern Ethiopia. The contributions
highlight the significance of the instability, dislocation,
conflict and transformation inherent in any society. None of these
writings, however, celebrate the forces that create the conflict;
they are cautious not to glorify the present and romanticize the
past. On the contrary, they seek to contextualize the challenges
which the country faces with a view to open a dialogue, not
exclusively among Ethiopians, but with scholars and social
activists in the rest of Africa, as well as the international
community. The contributions cover and examine such important
topics as historiography, political power and legitimacy, ideology
and radical views, knowledge transmission and modernity, emigration
and the Ethiopian Diaspora, ethnic and linguistic identity,
patriarchy and feminist discourses in a traditional society, public
policies and economic development, traditional and modern art and
culture, and neo-liberalism and globalization. This book was
published as a special issue of African Identities.
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