Contested Terrain: Essays on Oromo Studies, Ethiopianist Discourses, and Politically Engaged Scholarship

ISBN-10: 1569022801
ISBN-13: 9781569022801
Series: Contested Terrain
Category: Oromo (African people)
Pages: 258
Language: English
Published: 2009
Publisher: Red Sea Press(NJ)
Author: Ezekiel Gebissa

Description

Since 1991, there has been renewed debate in Ethiopia concerning the implication of the country's past for the present government. The long-standing debate was given an added impetus by Eritrea's independence from Ethiopia and the threat of disintegration posed by the continual struggle for self-determination by other ethnonational groups. In this book, a team of historians and sociologists confront 'the scholarship of power' that dismisses politically engaged scholarship in the name of academic objectivity.