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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 606–613.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Robbie Shilliam Abstract Shilliam approaches Adom Getachew's book Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination as an intervention into political theory. The book provides three provocations to that field. Getachew helps recast the sources and materials by which political theory...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 627–635.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Arash Davari Abstract This essay extends themes in Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019) by introducing Iran as a mediating element in Cold War worldmaking. It recovers the story of Pahlavi Iran's diplomatic efforts during the Sixth Special...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 601–606.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Michael Collins Abstract In addressing the relationship between national and international worldmaking political projects, Adom Getachew's impressive and thought-provoking recent book, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination , seeks to move beyond recent debates between...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 621–625.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Robert Vitalis Abstract In Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination , University of Chicago political theorist Adom Getachew has written a revisionist account of decolonization as “worldmaking” to inspire those who follow trailblazers like Kwame Nkrumah in pursuit of what...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 597–601.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Elleni Centime Zeleke Abstract This essay is a critical introduction to the Kitabkhana on Adom Getachew's 2019 book Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination . Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination . By Adom Getachew . Princeton, NJ...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 613–621.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Adam Dahl Abstract Rejecting the rigid dichotomy between anticolonial nationalism and postnational solidarity, Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire argues that anticolonial leaders in the Caribbean and Africa did not outright reject the nation-state in their quest for self-determination...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 3–19.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., defended, and claimed as though the trusteeship system had universalized a decolonized international law. Contributing to emerging scholarship on the relation of international law to global inequality in the decolonizing age, this article gives an account of a decolonizing worldmaking at the grassroots...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 404–405.
Published: 01 December 2020
... book, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination . Getachew addresses intellectuals of the black Atlantic, thinkers like W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R James, and Eric Williams, as theorists who were invested in ideas of self-regard and sovereignty that were anti-imperial...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 340–346.
Published: 01 December 2021
... 1950s, the participation of the Ethiopian delegation in some of the group's initiatives prompted commentators to refer to this coalition as an Afro-Asian group or Afro-Asian bloc, a poorly fitting designation at the time but suggestive of its broader worldmaking aspirations. 3 The emergence...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 422–429.
Published: 01 August 2022
... recourse to the grammar of Western revolutionary traditions to excavate these possibilities? In a previous Kitabkhana in CSSAAME that focused on Adom Getachew's book Worldmaking After Empire , Robbie Shilliam delivers a similar line of inquiry with respect to Ethiopianism: Are the insights drawn from...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 337–342.
Published: 01 December 2023
... and to study how the Middle East was ideationally tied to the wider Asian continent through multiscalar processes of worldmaking. 19 The first cluster of contributions looks at this process from the “bottom-up,” focusing on how nonstate actors—from intellectuals to revolutionary networks—advanced different...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 378–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
... was critical of communist anticolonialism, too, arguing that it was “determined to overthrow not only the system of nationalism but the whole fabric of the social system.” 65 Azad very much saw his anticolonialism as a form of worldmaking, whose ontological foundations lay in “the whole fabric...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2025) 45 (1): 2.
Published: 01 May 2025
... made an enormous contribution, editing a Kitabkhana on Adom Getachew's book Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination and then (in collaboration with Arash Davari) the special section “Third World Historical.” Centime received a doctorate in the history of social...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 243.
Published: 01 December 2023
... historical episodes, from the politics of capital, mobility, and war, including economic developmentalism and medical diplomacy, to transnational linkages and alliances through discourses on Islam and “Third Worldism” and across a variety of postrevolutionary “worldmaking” encounters. All together...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 532–537.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Brumaire ; Arendt, On Revolution . 16. Owusu, “Rebellion, Revolution, and Tradition.” 17. Gildea, Empires of the Mind . 18. Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire . References Arendt Hannah . On Revolution . London : Penguin Classics , 2006 . Davis...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 139–145.
Published: 01 August 2023
...” ; Asaratnam, Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century ; Bishara, A Sea of Debt ; Machado, Ocean of Trade . 21. See Sheriff, Dhow Cultures . 22. Henley and Wickramasinghe, Monsoon Asia . 23. Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire . 24. Prestholdt, Domesticating...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 412–426.
Published: 01 December 2023
...., The Routledge Handbook , 4 . 13. Chen, “Resisting,” 250 . 12. Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire . 11. The United States concluded mutual defense treaties with the RVN (1950), ROK (1953), and ROC (1954), and a mutual defense assistance agreement with Saudi Arabia (1951). In different...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 442–453.
Published: 01 August 2022
... ; Appy, Cold War Constructions ; Vitalis, America's Kingdom . 6. Scott, Conscripts ; Getachew, Worldmaking ; Wilder, Freedom Time ; Umoren, Race Women Internationalists ; Zeleke, Ethiopia in Theory . 7. See, e.g., Hodgkinson and Melchiorre, “Student Activism.” 8...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 83–93.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of the postcolonial project. 1. Mamdani, Neither Settler nor Native , 3 . 2. Mbembe, Out of the Dark Night , 44 . 3. Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire , 11 . Getachew defined the predicament this way: “The postcolonial predicament of de jure independence and de facto dependence.” 4...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 460–475.
Published: 01 December 2024
.... Kuru, “Gazel as Genre,” 75 . 64. On poetry as an imaginative site of worldmaking, see Ramachandran, The Worldmakers ; on the idea of lyric thinking, see Ramachandran, Lyric Thinking . 65. Recent critical studies and surveys include Culler, Theory of the Lyric ; Jackson, “Lyric...