Violence
Frames of War
Judith Butler has penned many well read and influential publications. Frames of War (2010) is a collection of (revised) essays that were written between 2004 and 2008. The content covers some challenging territory, including details of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Not sure these books are well worth obtaining, but attracted me to a collection of […]
Tags: #Dehumanization #Frames of War #Judith Butler #precarity #Violence
Frantz Fanon
Ohio University Press has a series of “Short Histories of Africa”. I recently decided to pick up most of the collection for potential use as reading materials for classes. This post covers “Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism” (2015) by Christopher J. Lee. Unlike other books in this series, this book delves into quite a […]
Why Civil Resistance Works
Over the last year I have posted about a number of books related to civil resistance. In reading that literature, one of the works that gets frequently referred to is “Why Civil Resistance Works – The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict” by Chenoweth and Stephan (2011). Given that the field of study is a relatively […]
Tags: #civil action #Civil resistance #mass movements #Nonviolence #Violence
Violence, Justice and Decolonization
If you are looking for a tour de force of colonialism, anti-colonization struggle and decolonization, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (1961) should be high on the list. Fanon is a unique voice; in style, content and argument. This work has influenced revolutionaries from Palestine to Sri Lanka and South Africa, as well as […]
Tags: #Colonization #decolonization #Frantz Fanon #Justice #Violence
Life After Violence: Burundi
What happens after conflict ends? How are lives changed, perceptions altered and the future envisioned? Peter Uvin held hundreds of interviews in Burundi to find out in his book “Life After Violence: A People’s Story of Burundi” (2009). The author presents “a snapshot of life as lived and analyzed by ordinary Burundians” being “based on […]
Tags: #Burundi #Conflict #International development #Uvin #Violence
Does Development Aid Violence?
Peter Uvin’s “Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda” (1999), should be read by all students, practitioners and scholars of development studies. The book offers unique perspectives on the linkages between development activity and politics, power, exclusion, marginalization and processes that generally counter the objectives of the development enterprise, and specifically the Rwandan genocide.The book […]
Tags: #Aid #Development Studies #Genocide #International development #Violence
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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