When Social Science Concepts Become Neutral Arbiters of Social Conflict

When Social Science Concepts Become Neutral Arbiters of Social Conflict

Subtitle: 
Reading the Ethiopian Federal Elections of 2005 through the Ethiopian Student Movement of the 1960s and 1970s
Author: 
Zeleke, Elleni Centime
Place: 
Michigan
Publisher: 
Michigan State University Press
Date published: 
2016
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Journal Title: 
Northeast African Studies
Source: 
Northeast African Studies, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2016, pp. 65-88
Abstract: 

This is a review of scholarly interpretations of the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution and its aftermath, that is, the regime it brought to power. It covers studies written during the life of that regime by Ethiopian and foreign scholars, and focuses on their interpretation rather than description, and specifically on their views on certain key issues. These include the nature of the imperial regime and the causes of its collapse; the protagonists in the political uprising that ended in the regime's collapse; the agents of the social revolution that followed; the nature of the Derg regime; and the scholars' own view of its prospects.

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CITATION: Zeleke, Elleni Centime. When Social Science Concepts Become Neutral Arbiters of Social Conflict . Michigan : Michigan State University Press , 2016. Northeast African Studies, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2016, pp. 65-88 - Available at: http://library.au.int/when-social-science-concepts-become-neutral-arbiters-social-conflict