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Foreign Intervention in Africa – The Colonial Legacy
Elizabeth Schmidt is a professor of history at Loyola University. The following thought provoking quotes are taken from her 2013 book “Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror.” The context: “For many outsiders, the word Africa conjures up images of a continent in crisis, riddled with war and corruption, […]
Tags: #Africa #Assassination #Colonial legacy #Colonialism #Foreign Intervention
Article Featured by Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis is running a series on the Millennium Development Goals (MGDs). One of my papers from 2012 is featured under Goal 6: Combat HIV / AIDS, Malaria & Other Diseases: http://explore.tandfonline.com/content/est/mdg/hiv-aids
Imagined Communities (1983) Anderson
Quotes from Anderson’s book, an essential read for those interested in nations, nation-states and nationality: The idea: “I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community – and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign.” (5) “…it is an imagined as a community, because , regardless of the actual inequality […]
Tags: #Anderson #Imagined Communities #Nation-state #Nationality #nationality-ism
Seeing Like A State – Prescribing Society
Thought provoking quotes from Scott’s (1998) Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed. The rationale: “The publicly stated rationale for planned settlement schemes was almost always couched in the discourse of orderly development and social services (such as the provision of health clinics, sanitation, adequate housing, education, clean […]
Tags: #Development #International development #James C. Scott #Prescribing Society #Seeing Like a State
Seeing Like A State – Describing Society
Thought provoking quotes from Scott’s (1998) Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed. On simplification: “… state simplifications, the basic givens of modern statecraft, were, I began to realize, rather like abridged maps. They did not successfully represent the actual activity of the society they depicted, nor were […]
Tags: #Describing Society #James C. Scott #Legibility #Seeing Like a State #Simplification
Awarded: Robert M. Netting Graduate Paper Prize
The Robert M. Netting award is given out by the Culture and Agriculture section of the American Anthropological Association. I was awarded this prize for my paper “Worldviews Apart: Agriculture Extension and Ethiopian Smallholder Farmers.” As a part of the award, I will now work with the editors of the journal Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment for its […]
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About me
Logan Cochrane
Logan is a Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last twenty years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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