Adom Getachew

Political Scientist and Contributor at Freelance

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Adom Getachew. Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination.

Jun 12, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Adom Getachew

For a long time, non-Western voices and perspectives have existed on the margins of twentieth-century international and global history. It has only been in the past two decades that historians have begun to recover the historical agency of Global South actors in studies of international institutions, the global economy, and transnational networks of solidarity.
Black Atlantics | Adom Getachew

May 30, 2024 | nybooks.com | Adom Getachew

A little over a decade ago, while researching what became my first book, I spent two months in Trinidad conducting archival research at the University of the West Indies. I stayed in a guesthouse run by a Presbyterian Indo-Trinidadian family. When my hosts learned that I was Ethiopian, they told me about the Ethiopian Orthodox community on the island and introduced me to the archbishop who oversaw the congregations in the Caribbean and Latin America.
A Political Education

Dec 12, 2023 | bostonreview.net | Adom Getachew

Aziz Rana makes two interrelated points in service of generating a progressive and universal vision of American freedom. First, he illustrates that any effort to reimagine the domestic face of American freedom must contend with U.S. imperial power, which shapes and constrains the possibility for realizing any progressive project.
"Worldmaking after Empire. The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination": by Adom Getachew

Nov 19, 2023 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Adom Getachew |Alicia Wach

"Worldmaking after Empire. The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination": by Adom GetachewAutores: Alicia WachLocalización: Finisterra: Revista Portuguesa de Geografia, ISSN 0430-5027, Vol. 58, Nº 123, 2023, págs. 175-177Idioma: inglésTítulos paralelos: "Worldmaking after empire. The rise and fall of self-determination": de Adom Getachew"Worldmaking after empire.
History’s Presence | Adom Getachew

Aug 12, 2023 | nybooks.com | Nawal K. Arjini |Adom Getachew

In the August 17 issue of the Review, the political theorist Adom Getachew writes about Howard French’s Born in Blackness, a radical reexamination of the importance of Africa and Africans to Western history. As French writes, the European exploitation of the continent and its peoples went hand in hand with the willful erasure of African contributions to the world economy, to its culture, and to humanity’s greatest achievements.
Africa, the Center of History | Adom Getachew

Jul 27, 2023 | nybooks.com | Adom Getachew

W.E.B. Du Bois, the African American sociologist and historian and a cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was fond of the Latin phrase Semper novi quid ex Africa (out of Africa, always something new). Although of Greek origin, the phrase is most often associated with the Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder, who included it in his Natural History (77 CE). For Pliny, Africa was a place of strange and unusual creatures.