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The Racial Contract
Mills’ The Racial Contract (1997) is essential reading – short and generally accessible (the philosophy might be a challenge for those outside of it), but well worth struggling through. Charles W. Mills is currently at City University of New York and has written a number of books (reviews of others to come). The book seems […]
Tags: #Race #Racial Contract #Racism #White supremacy #Whiteness
Waqf in the Islamic World
In an earlier post I commented on the remarkable amount of land and resources managed by charitable foundations / endowments in the Middle East and North Africa, but was also challenged to find the primary source for that data (despite digging from reference to reference, only to hit dead ends). To look into the waqf […]
Ending the Crisis of Capitalism, or Ending Capitalism?
I have covered several of Samir Amin works, including Unequal Development (1976), Capitalism in the Age of Globalization (1997) and The Liberal Virus (2004). This post covers his book Ending the Crisis of Capitalism, or Ending Capitalism? (originally published in French in 2009, and the translation I have was published in 2011 by Pambazuka Press). […]
Democracy in Chains
Nearly on a weekly basis during the Trump years we heard pundits proclaim something along the lines of “who saw it coming?!” While the specifics were not predictable, the trend was clear. One of those for whom the writing was on the wall was historian and public policy expert Nancy MacLean, who published Democracy in […]
Tags: #Buchanan #Charles Koch #Democracy #Liberty #Nancy MacLean
Ethiopia in the Wake of Political Reforms
Following years of protests, unrest and instability Abiy Ahmed became the Prime Minister of Ethiopia in 2018. After a year of optimism and positivity, the challenges put increasing pressure on a fragile transition. It was around this time that a group of scholars met to take stock of the situation and develop the ideas of […]
Tags: #Abiy Ahmed #Ethiopia #Political Reform #Transition #Tsehai
Can Non-Europeans Think? (Dabashi)
I looked forward to Hamid Dabashi’s Can Non-Europeans Think? (2015), with a forward by Walter Mignolo. Although the articles are interesting, they are a disconnected set of writings over a period of fifteen or so years. Most are former journalistic publications, which leaves academic readers wanting for references to follow-up on and dig deeper. The […]
Tags: #Can Non-Europeans Think? #Colonized mind #Eurocentrism #Fast Knowledge #Hamid Dabashi
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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