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Rural Ethiopia in Transition
The WIDE project in Ethiopia is one of the few long-term qualitative projects following rural areas (starting rural research in 1994, and following the changes since). There are 20 communities being followed, unfortunately the so-called “emerging regions” are not included (Afar, Benishagul Gumuz, Gambella, Somali). The book “Rural Ethiopia in Transition – Selected Discussion Briefs, […]
Tags: #Alula Pankhurst #Catherine Dom #Ethiopia #Rural Ethiopia in Transition #WIDE Project
Cobalt Red
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (2022) is a journalistic take on the mining of cobalt in DR Congo, written by Siddharth Kara (the author has published other books on modern slavery). This book focuses on cobalt, the mineral that is critical for nearly all of our rechargeable devices and […]
Gambling on Development
Dercon’s 2022 development studies book “Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose” will likely become one of the key readings for the field (and is endorsed by influential thinkers: Rory Stewart, Blattman, Yuen Yuen Ang). In a nutshell the argument is that development occurs when elites make a “development bargain”, taking various […]
Tags: #Development Bargain #Elite Bargain #Gambling on Development #Stefan Dercon
Thomas Pogge and his critics
The edited collection, Thomas Pogge and His Critics (2010), edited by Alison Jaggar, is an excellent collection of chapters by an exceptional line up of philosophers focused on justice. The critics present a series of challenges, critiques and clarifications for Pogge’s work, such as on positive duties, the inclusion of rights protection, the causes of […]
Tags: #Alison Jaggar #Ethics #Global Justice #Philosophy #Thomas Pogge
Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia
With Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia, Terje Østebø contributes a historical ethnography to two under researched domains. First, to African and Ethiopian studies and secondly to Islamic studies. As a field of study, African studies, and Ethiopian studies in particular, have tended to focus on dominant themes, such as the largest populations, key livelihoods, […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Bale Insurgency #Conflict #Ethiopia #Ethnicity
Human Rights: A Political & Cultural Critique
I am late to discover Makua Mutua’s well cited (over 1,100 as of this post) book “Human Rights: A Political & Cultural Critique” (2002). Published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, this is work that inspired many of the critiques that followed. Highly recommended. A few notes: “I wanted to explain why I believe that […]
Tags: #Critique #Eurocentric #Human Rights #Ideology #Makua Mutua
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate 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 fifteen 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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