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The migration of Ethiopians across international borders is a
recent phenomenon because of the limited integration of the country
and society to the global economy. Since it was never colonized -
aside from the Italian occupation of 1936-1941 - Ethiopia's economy
and society were not directly impacted by the ebb and flow of the
global economy, and thus never generated international migration.
Beginning in the 1970s, due to factors such as famine, rural
poverty, civil war, and political repression, an unprecedented
number of Ethiopian migrants began to leave their country in search
of better, more secure lives. Today, this diaspora constitutes a
distinctive community dispersed across the world, but bound by a
common feeling of collectiveness and a shared history of the
homeland. The contributors to this volume draw their work from a
wide variety of interdisciplinary fields and provide new critical
insight on Ethiopian migrants and their diaspora communities. What
has emerged from these scholarly works is the recognition that the
Ethiopian diaspora - although separated by oceans and nations, by
politics, ethnicity, class, gender and age - are carving out a
social and material world born out of their particular
circumstances both "here" and "there". This book was originally
published as a special issue of African and Black Diaspora: An
International Journal.
The 20th century witnessed the large-scale displacement and
dispersal of populations across the world because of major
political upheavals, among them the two European wars,
decolonization and the Cold War. These major events were followed
by globalization which accelerated free trade and the mobility of
capital, new technologies of communication, and the movement of
people, commodities, ideas, and cultures across the world. This
book explores the complexity of African migration and diaspora, the
discourse of 'diaspora engagement' and new models of citizenship
and transnationalism in the context of these issues. This book was
originally published as a special issue of African and Black
Diaspora: An International Journal.
Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space:
ordering and classifying the built environment, while projecting
the authority of European powers across Africa in the name of
science and progress. The built urban fabric left by colonial
powers attests to its lingering impacts in shaping the present and
the future trajectory of postcolonial cities in Africa. Colonial
Architecture and Urbanism explores the intersection between
architecture and urbanism as discursive cultural projects in
Africa. Like other colonial institutions such as the courts,
police, prisons, and schools, that were crucial in establishing and
maintaining political domination, colonial architecture and
urbanism played s pivotal role in shaping the spatial and social
structures of African cities during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Indeed, it is the cultural destination of colonial architecture and
urbanism and the connection between them and colonialism that the
volume seeks to critically address. The contributions drawn from
different interdisciplinary fields map the historical processes of
colonial architecture and urbanism and bring into sharp focus the
dynamic conditions in which colonial states, officials, architects,
planners, medical doctors and missionaries mutually constructed a
hierarchical and exclusionary built environment that served the
wider colonial project in Africa.
The 20th century witnessed the large-scale displacement and
dispersal of populations across the world because of major
political upheavals, among them the two European wars,
decolonization and the Cold War. These major events were followed
by globalization which accelerated free trade and the mobility of
capital, new technologies of communication, and the movement of
people, commodities, ideas, and cultures across the world. This
book explores the complexity of African migration and diaspora, the
discourse of 'diaspora engagement' and new models of citizenship
and transnationalism in the context of these issues. This book was
originally published as a special issue of African and Black
Diaspora: An International Journal.
The term 'Black Atlantic' was coined to describe the social,
cultural and political space that emerged out of the experience of
slavery, exile, oppression, exploitation and resistance. This
volume seeks to recast a new map of the 'Black Atlantic' beyond the
Anglophone Atlantic zone by focusing on Brazil as a social and
cultural space born out of the Atlantic slave trade. The
contributors draw from the recently reinvigorated scholarly debates
which have shifted inquiry from the explicit study of cultural
'survival' and 'acculturation' towards an emphasis on placing
Africans and their descendants at the center of their own
histories. Going beyond the notion of cultural 'survival' or
'creolization', the contributors explore different sites of power
and resistance, gendered cartographies, memory, and the various
social and cultural networks and institutions that Africans and
their descendants created and developed in Brazil. This book
illuminates the linkages, networks, disjunctions, sense of
collective consciousness, memory and cultural imagination among the
African-descended populations in Brazil. This book was originally
published as a special issue of African and Black Diaspora: An
International Journal.
At the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, a
number of African American and Caribbean intellectuals and
immigrants of the African Diaspora with all their apprehensions set
out in steamships en route and carried with them a certain presence
to the metropoleis of Europe and North America. These individuals
traversed the "middle passage" in the opposite direction from the
forced journey undertaken by their enslaved ancestors. Later they
began to arrive in large numbers as free men and women in London,
Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Brussels, Lisbon, New York, and other places
in the metropolis by steam ships and later by planes, and were
actors in the larger history of empire from which the imperatives
of forced migration, uprooting, displacement, and exile had arisen.
The texts selected offer critical examination of a broad range of
African Diaspora experiences in the metropole drawn from Senegal,
the Caribbean, United States, Britain, Nigeria and France. Bringing
together comparative and diasporic perspectives, the book explores
the complex roles that race, gender, sexuality and history have
played in the formation of African Diaspora identities in the
metropole since the 19th century. This book was published as a
special issue of African and Black Diaspora: An International
Journal.
The book focuses on contemporary African cities, caught in the
contradiction of an imperial past and postcolonial present. The
essays explore the cultural role of colonial architecture and
urbanism in the production of meanings: in the inscription of power
and discipline, as well as in the dynamic construction of
identities. It is in these new dense urban spaces, with all their
contradictions, that urban Africans are reworking their local
identities, building families, and creating autonomous communities
- made fragile by neo-liberal states in a globalizing world. The
book offers a range of scholarly interpretations of the new forms
of urbanity. It engages with issues, themes and topics including
colonial legacies, postcolonial intersections, cosmopolitan spaces,
urban reconfigurations, and migration which are at the heart of the
continuing debate about the trajectory of contemporary African
cities. The collection discusses contemporary African cities as
diverse as Dar Es Salaam, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos and Kinshasa -
offering new insights into the current state of postcolonial
African cities. This was previously published as a special issue of
African Identities.
Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space:
ordering and classifying the built environment, while projecting
the authority of European powers across Africa in the name of
science and progress. The built urban fabric left by colonial
powers attests to its lingering impacts in shaping the present and
the future trajectory of postcolonial cities in Africa. Colonial
Architecture and Urbanism explores the intersection between
architecture and urbanism as discursive cultural projects in
Africa. Like other colonial institutions such as the courts,
police, prisons, and schools, that were crucial in establishing and
maintaining political domination, colonial architecture and
urbanism played s pivotal role in shaping the spatial and social
structures of African cities during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Indeed, it is the cultural destination of colonial architecture and
urbanism and the connection between them and colonialism that the
volume seeks to critically address. The contributions drawn from
different interdisciplinary fields map the historical processes of
colonial architecture and urbanism and bring into sharp focus the
dynamic conditions in which colonial states, officials, architects,
planners, medical doctors and missionaries mutually constructed a
hierarchical and exclusionary built environment that served the
wider colonial project in Africa.
The book focuses on contemporary African cities, caught in the
contradiction of an imperial past and postcolonial present. The
essays explore the cultural role of colonial architecture and
urbanism in the production of meanings: in the inscription of power
and discipline, as well as in the dynamic construction of
identities. It is in these new dense urban spaces, with all their
contradictions, that urban Africans are reworking their local
identities, building families, and creating autonomous communities
- made fragile by neo-liberal states in a globalizing world. The
book offers a range of scholarly interpretations of the new forms
of urbanity. It engages with issues, themes and topics including
colonial legacies, postcolonial intersections, cosmopolitan spaces,
urban reconfigurations, and migration which are at the heart of the
continuing debate about the trajectory of contemporary African
cities. The collection discusses contemporary African cities as
diverse as Dar Es Salaam, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos and Kinshasa -
offering new insights into the current state of postcolonial
African cities. This was previously published as a special issue of
African Identities.
The sign that 'Africa is on Sale' has been appearing with regular
frequency in major newspaper accounts across the world, indicating
that large amounts/expanses of Africa's rich farmlands are being
sold to transnational investors, usually on long-term leases, at a
rate not seen in decades - indeed not since the colonial period.
Transnational and national economic actors from various business
sectors (oil and auto, mining and forestry, food and chemical,
bioenergy, etc.) are eagerly acquiring, or declaring their
intention to acquire large areas of land on which to build,
maintain or extend large-scale extractive and agro-industrial
enterprises to help secure their own food and energy needs into the
future. This book provides a critical appraisal of the growing
phenomenon of land grabbing in Africa. Far from being a technical
issue associated "good governance", the problem of land grabbing by
transnational corporation and states is a serious threat for the
food security of millions of Africans and is undoubtedly one of the
great challenges of our time for development on the continent. The
case studies illustrate that African states are also complicit in
the massive land grabbing by actively participating in isolated
development while excluding the local communities. The case studies
reveal key features that characterize how the global land grab
plays out in specific localities in Africa. This book was published
as a special issue of African Identities.
The term 'Black Atlantic' was coined to describe the social,
cultural and political space that emerged out of the experience of
slavery, exile, oppression, exploitation and resistance. This
volume seeks to recast a new map of the 'Black Atlantic' beyond the
Anglophone Atlantic zone by focusing on Brazil as a social and
cultural space born out of the Atlantic slave trade. The
contributors draw from the recently reinvigorated scholarly debates
which have shifted inquiry from the explicit study of cultural
'survival' and 'acculturation' towards an emphasis on placing
Africans and their descendants at the center of their own
histories. Going beyond the notion of cultural 'survival' or
'creolization', the contributors explore different sites of power
and resistance, gendered cartographies, memory, and the various
social and cultural networks and institutions that Africans and
their descendants created and developed in Brazil. This book
illuminates the linkages, networks, disjunctions, sense of
collective consciousness, memory and cultural imagination among the
African-descended populations in Brazil. This book was originally
published as a special issue of African and Black Diaspora: An
International Journal.
The sign that 'Africa is on Sale' has been appearing with regular
frequency in major newspaper accounts across the world, indicating
that large amounts/expanses of Africa's rich farmlands are being
sold to transnational investors, usually on long-term leases, at a
rate not seen in decades - indeed not since the colonial period.
Transnational and national economic actors from various business
sectors (oil and auto, mining and forestry, food and chemical,
bioenergy, etc.) are eagerly acquiring, or declaring their
intention to acquire large areas of land on which to build,
maintain or extend large-scale extractive and agro-industrial
enterprises to help secure their own food and energy needs into the
future. This book provides a critical appraisal of the growing
phenomenon of land grabbing in Africa. Far from being a technical
issue associated "good governance", the problem of land grabbing by
transnational corporation and states is a serious threat for the
food security of millions of Africans and is undoubtedly one of the
great challenges of our time for development on the continent. The
case studies illustrate that African states are also complicit in
the massive land grabbing by actively participating in isolated
development while excluding the local communities. The case studies
reveal key features that characterize how the global land grab
plays out in specific localities in Africa. This book was published
as a special issue of African Identities.
The migration of Ethiopians across international borders is a
recent phenomenon because of the limited integration of the country
and society to the global economy. Since it was never colonized -
aside from the Italian occupation of 1936-1941 - Ethiopia's economy
and society were not directly impacted by the ebb and flow of the
global economy, and thus never generated international migration.
Beginning in the 1970s, due to factors such as famine, rural
poverty, civil war, and political repression, an unprecedented
number of Ethiopian migrants began to leave their country in search
of better, more secure lives. Today, this diaspora constitutes a
distinctive community dispersed across the world, but bound by a
common feeling of collectiveness and a shared history of the
homeland. The contributors to this volume draw their work from a
wide variety of interdisciplinary fields and provide new critical
insight on Ethiopian migrants and their diaspora communities. What
has emerged from these scholarly works is the recognition that the
Ethiopian diaspora - although separated by oceans and nations, by
politics, ethnicity, class, gender and age - are carving out a
social and material world born out of their particular
circumstances both "here" and "there". This book was originally
published as a special issue of African and Black Diaspora: An
International Journal.
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