Adom Getachew
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Virginia, Yale University
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Main interestshistory of political thought, theories of race and empire, and postcolonial political theory
Websitehttps://political-science.uchicago.edu/directory/adom-getachew

Adom Getachew is an Ethiopian-American political scientist. She is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago.[1] She is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination.[2][3][4][5][6]

Adom was awarded a PhD in Political Science and African-American Studies from Yale University in 2015.[7] She was born in Ethiopia. She was raised in Ethiopia and Botswana until the age of 13, when her family moved to Arlington, Virginia, United States.[8][9][10]

Work

Her first book, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019), centers the work of African, African American, and Caribbean anticolonial nationalists and their efforts to challenge the global hierarchy.[11] Ultimately, she argues that legally decolonized countries face unequal legal, economic, and social integration in the international plane.[12] These stratified relationships continue to perpetrate imperial structures.

References

  1. ^ "Adom Getachew | Political Science | The University of Chicago". political-science.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
  2. ^ Getachew, Adom (2019). Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. Princeton University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv3znwvg. ISBN 978-0-691-17915-5. JSTOR j.ctv3znwvg.
  3. ^ Dasgupta, Sandipto (2020-06-01). "Review of Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire". Millennium. 48 (3): 351–359. doi:10.1177/0305829820939633. ISSN 0305-8298. S2CID 231809273.
  4. ^ Marshall, Jenna (2020-06-01). "Postcolonial Paradoxes, Ambiguities of Self-determination and Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire". Millennium. 48 (3): 340–350. doi:10.1177/0305829820939618. ISSN 0305-8298. S2CID 225418273.
  5. ^ Gerits, Frank (2020). "Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. Edited by Adom Getachew. Princeton University Press. 2019. xii + 271pp. £27.00". History. 105 (366): 540–542. doi:10.1111/1468-229X.12993. ISSN 1468-229X. S2CID 225514242.
  6. ^ "H-Diplo Roundtable XXI-13 on Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination | H-Diplo | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
  7. ^ Ali, Zara (2023-02-13). "Adom Getachew on Anticolonial Worldmaking of the Past and Present". Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
  8. ^ "H-Diplo Essay 309- Adom Getachew on Learning the Scholar's Craft | H-Diplo | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. 2021-02-02. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
  9. ^ Arrington, Rebecca P. (2008-02-15). "Adom Getachew Named New Student Member of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors". UVA Today. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
  10. ^ Adom Getachew; Ashish Ghadiali (2022-09-22). "World makers of the Black Atlantic". www.eurozine.com. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
  11. ^ "H-Diplo Essay 309- Adom Getachew on Learning the Scholar's Craft". issforum.org. 2021-02-02. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
  12. ^ Peebles, Tom (2022-06-08). "The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination - Book Review". Tocqueville21. Retrieved 2023-06-14.
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