Jay O'Brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 4527596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jay O'Brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jay |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Brien |
| SIGNATURE | BRIEN J O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lawrence University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Golden Ages, Dark Ages
War of Visions
The Benefits of Famine
The Poverty of Nations
Ethnicity and Conflict in the Horn of Africa
Governing the Nuer
Religion and National Integration in Africa
Golden Ages, Dark Ages
Golden Ages, Dark Ages
Golden Ages, Dark Ages
Golden Ages, Dark Ages
In Golden Dark Ages, a dozen well-known anthropologists and historians bring an exciting new perspective to the task of imagining the past, while actively challenging the premises of a traditional historical approach. The authors clarify important misapprehensions that have hindered both historians and anthropologists, who tend to regard certain social formsgender, ethnicity, household, and community in particularas fixed points of departure rath…
Bonds of Silk
The Western Bahr al-Ghazal under British Rule
Forced Labour and Migration
Employment and Economic Reform
Sudan's Killing Fields
Economy and Class in Sudan
The Ecology of Survival
Introduction - ecology and society in northeast African history, David M. Anderson and Douglas H. Johnson Part 1 Archaeological and historical perspectives - human adaptation and long-term climatic change in northeast Africa - and archaeological perspective, John A.J. Gowlett the great drought and famine of 1888-92 in northeast Africa, Richard Pankhurst and Douglas H. Johnson Emutai - crisis and response in Maasailand 1883-1902, Richard Waller. P…
Feeding African Cities
Class and Power in Sudan
Seed of Redemption
Work and Power in Maale, Ethiopia . Donald L. Donham
On segmented and national labour markets
It is encouraging to see activist-scholars seriously addressing the problems of the structure and dynamics of the agricultural labour force in Sudan as Abbas Abdelkarim has done in ROAPE 34. In particular, he raised important questions concerning the development of class consciousness and collective organisation among Sudanese agricultural workers which have too long been neglected. I am also happy to see a debate emerge around the propositions I…
Tenants and Nomads in Eastern Sudan
The calculus of profit and labour-time in Sudanese peasant agriculture
In this article I argue that discourse on peasants and social change has tended to rest on unwarranted evolutionist assumptions embedded in oppositional models of past and present. Through an examination of recent changes in Sudanese peasant agriculture, I seek to show that these changes cannot adequately be grasped in terms of transitions from domestic to commodity production or pre-capitalist to capitalist modes of production. Rather, these cha…
Toward a Reconstitution of Ethnicity
In this article I argue that, despite recent advances in anthropology, prevailing images of ethnicity in academic discourse overemphasize units at the expense of interconnections and tend toward ahistorical formalism. Through an examination of the dynamics of ethnic segmentation of the agricultural labor force in Sudan in this century, I seek to show that both the modem character of ethnicity as an organizing principle and the content of particul…
The Supranational Organization of Production
Fresh theoretical perspectives are required for understanding the rapid expansion of international economic activity and especially the organization of production on a world scale through institutions of multinational enterprise. Ananthropological evolutionary approach which sees these developments as part of the generation of a new system at a supranational level of sociocultural integration seems appropiate to the task. The creation of such a n…
Sowing the seeds of famine
After escaping the ravages of the Sahelian famine of 1968–73, Sudan has begun to experience famine in the current drought. This paper examines recent commercial and subsistence patterns of food production in Sudan In relation to shifting structures of accumulation in order to account for Sudan's rising vulnerability to famine. It argues that the combination of the cumulative effects of capitalist agricultural expansion with the ascendancy of poli…
The formation of the agricultural labour force in Sudan
Seasonal recruitment was a primary means of obtaining agricultural labour in Sudan during the colonial and much of the post‐colonial period. And as in many other African nations, agricultural labour was predominantly migrant labour. The supply of labour increased as government policies and increased penetration of capitalism expanded cash needs. But as O'Brien relates, responses to such needs varied among different groups and in different parts o…
Class and Power in Sudan
The calculus of profit and labour-time in Sudanese peasant agriculture
In this article I argue that discourse on peasants and social change has tended to rest on unwarranted evolutionist assumptions embedded in oppositional models of past and present. Through an examination of recent changes in Sudanese peasant agriculture, I seek to show that these changes cannot adequately be grasped in terms of transitions from domestic to commodity production or pre-capitalist to capitalist modes of production. Rather, these cha…
Golden Ages, Dark Ages
Tribe, class and nation
Bonapartism and Kenyatta's regime in Kenya
Portugal and Africa
The case of Portuguese colonialism is unique in the world today. While other Western colonial powers have reluctantly but rationally conceded the right to political independence to their colonies, Portugal clings to the largest remaining empire in the world and endeavors to consolidate political unity among all parts of the empire under the domination of its metropolitan center in Europe.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review websit…
Portugal and Africa
The case of Portuguese colonialism is unique in the world today. While other Western colonial powers have reluctantly but rationally conceded the right to political independence to their colonies, Portugal clings to the largest remaining empire in the world and endeavors to consolidate political unity among all parts of the empire under the domination of its metropolitan center in Europe.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review websit…
Bonapartism and Kenyatta's regime in Kenya
Sectarianism in the New South Wales Elections of 1843 and 1856
The Supranational Organization of Production
Fresh theoretical perspectives are required for understanding the rapid expansion of international economic activity and especially the organization of production on a world scale through institutions of multinational enterprise. Ananthropological evolutionary approach which sees these developments as part of the generation of a new system at a supranational level of sociocultural integration seems appropiate to the task. The creation of such a n…
Tribe, class and nation
Sudan
Books/Livres
The formation of the agricultural labour force in Sudan
Seasonal recruitment was a primary means of obtaining agricultural labour in Sudan during the colonial and much of the post‐colonial period. And as in many other African nations, agricultural labour was predominantly migrant labour. The supply of labour increased as government policies and increased penetration of capitalism expanded cash needs. But as O'Brien relates, responses to such needs varied among different groups and in different parts o…
Post-Independence Sudan
Books/Livres
Sowing the seeds of famine
After escaping the ravages of the Sahelian famine of 1968–73, Sudan has begun to experience famine in the current drought. This paper examines recent commercial and subsistence patterns of food production in Sudan In relation to shifting structures of accumulation in order to account for Sudan's rising vulnerability to famine. It argues that the combination of the cumulative effects of capitalist agricultural expansion with the ascendancy of poli…
Shadows in the Grass
Understanding the Crisis in Sudan
(1986). Understanding the Crisis in Sudan. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des etudes africaines: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 275-279
Toward a Reconstitution of Ethnicity
In this article I argue that, despite recent advances in anthropology, prevailing images of ethnicity in academic discourse overemphasize units at the expense of interconnections and tend toward ahistorical formalism. Through an examination of the dynamics of ethnic segmentation of the agricultural labor force in Sudan in this century, I seek to show that both the modem character of ethnicity as an organizing principle and the content of particul…
Work and Power in Maale, Ethiopia . Donald L. Donham
On segmented and national labour markets
It is encouraging to see activist-scholars seriously addressing the problems of the structure and dynamics of the agricultural labour force in Sudan as Abbas Abdelkarim has done in ROAPE 34. In particular, he raised important questions concerning the development of class consciousness and collective organisation among Sudanese agricultural workers which have too long been neglected. I am also happy to see a debate emerge around the propositions I…
Tenants and Nomads in Eastern Sudan
The calculus of profit and labour-time in Sudanese peasant agriculture
In this article I argue that discourse on peasants and social change has tended to rest on unwarranted evolutionist assumptions embedded in oppositional models of past and present. Through an examination of recent changes in Sudanese peasant agriculture, I seek to show that these changes cannot adequately be grasped in terms of transitions from domestic to commodity production or pre-capitalist to capitalist modes of production. Rather, these cha…
Class and Power in Sudan
Seed of Redemption
Sudan's Killing Fields
Economy and Class in Sudan
The Ecology of Survival
Introduction - ecology and society in northeast African history, David M. Anderson and Douglas H. Johnson Part 1 Archaeological and historical perspectives - human adaptation and long-term climatic change in northeast Africa - and archaeological perspective, John A.J. Gowlett the great drought and famine of 1888-92 in northeast Africa, Richard Pankhurst and Douglas H. Johnson Emutai - crisis and response in Maasailand 1883-1902, Richard Waller. P…
Feeding African Cities
Bonds of Silk
Political science (27 works) · History (19 works) · Geography (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (13 works) · African history and culture analysis (11 works) · Ancient history (11 works) · Economics (11 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Politics (9 works)