Elleni Centime Zeleke
Biographic Data
| ID | 1204500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elleni Centime Zeleke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elleni Centime |
| FAMILY NAME | Zeleke |
| SIGNATURE | ZELEKE E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Revolution and Rehearsal in the Global South
This dialogue, recorded in late 2020, brings together a group of remarkable critics and creators working between Asia, Africa, and the West, each of whom address the relationship between revolutions and archives in their own practice. What does it mean, in practice, to unlearn the archive? What does it mean to do so from the global periphery, the still present specter of a third world
Bound to Violence
This dialogue, recorded in 2021, explores the sound and feel of South-South political theory from the perspective of Southern Africa. The interlocutors discuss the question of violence and nonviolence in revolutionary change across generational divides. It centers the enduring place of spirit and ancestral voices in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Self-Determination in the Black Atlantic
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
When Social Science Concepts Become Neutral Arbiters of Social Conflict
This article traces the story of how the intellectual culture and discourses that animated the Ethiopian student movement in the 1960s and 1970s have continued to impact political processes in the country in the generations since. More specifically, it looks at how the legacy of the Ethiopian student movement influenced events during the country’s momentous 2005 elections. The essay further poses the question of how one can characterize and under…
My People
My People Elleni Centime Zeleke (bio) 1 A friend of mine, having left his teaching position in the United States to return to his native Addis Ababa, found a commotion in his neighbourhood one evening. A semi-urbanized peasant family discovered that their donkey had given birth to a useless thing. Inquiring, what the teacher found was that the newborn donkey was a sight to behold. It had pretty eyes and adorable ears, but this was precisely becau…
Addis Ababa as Modernist Ruin
Keeping in mind that Addis Ababa translates to mean flower, I want to appropriate some of the sights and sounds of this relatively new city in order to rub it against the land- scape of transformation, and reinscription (modernism), that has characterized Addis Ababa since its founding in the late 1800s (Holston 5). I am particularly interested in Addis Ababa's transition from the Socialist oriented military junta known as the Derg (1974-1991) to…
Revolution and Rehearsal in the Global South
This dialogue, recorded in late 2020, brings together a group of remarkable critics and creators working between Asia, Africa, and the West, each of whom address the relationship between revolutions and archives in their own practice. What does it mean, in practice, to unlearn the archive? What does it mean to do so from the global periphery, the still present specter of a third world
When Social Science Concepts Become Neutral Arbiters of Social Conflict
This article traces the story of how the intellectual culture and discourses that animated the Ethiopian student movement in the 1960s and 1970s have continued to impact political processes in the country in the generations since. More specifically, it looks at how the legacy of the Ethiopian student movement influenced events during the country’s momentous 2005 elections. The essay further poses the question of how one can characterize and under…
Addis Ababa as Modernist Ruin
Keeping in mind that Addis Ababa translates to mean flower, I want to appropriate some of the sights and sounds of this relatively new city in order to rub it against the land- scape of transformation, and reinscription (modernism), that has characterized Addis Ababa since its founding in the late 1800s (Holston 5). I am particularly interested in Addis Ababa's transition from the Socialist oriented military junta known as the Derg (1974-1991) to…
Addis Ababa as Modernist Ruin
Keeping in mind that Addis Ababa translates to mean flower, I want to appropriate some of the sights and sounds of this relatively new city in order to rub it against the land- scape of transformation, and reinscription (modernism), that has characterized Addis Ababa since its founding in the late 1800s (Holston 5). I am particularly interested in Addis Ababa's transition from the Socialist oriented military junta known as the Derg (1974-1991) to…
My People
My People Elleni Centime Zeleke (bio) 1 A friend of mine, having left his teaching position in the United States to return to his native Addis Ababa, found a commotion in his neighbourhood one evening. A semi-urbanized peasant family discovered that their donkey had given birth to a useless thing. Inquiring, what the teacher found was that the newborn donkey was a sight to behold. It had pretty eyes and adorable ears, but this was precisely becau…
When Social Science Concepts Become Neutral Arbiters of Social Conflict
This article traces the story of how the intellectual culture and discourses that animated the Ethiopian student movement in the 1960s and 1970s have continued to impact political processes in the country in the generations since. More specifically, it looks at how the legacy of the Ethiopian student movement influenced events during the country’s momentous 2005 elections. The essay further poses the question of how one can characterize and under…
Self-Determination in the Black Atlantic
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
Revolution and Rehearsal in the Global South
This dialogue, recorded in late 2020, brings together a group of remarkable critics and creators working between Asia, Africa, and the West, each of whom address the relationship between revolutions and archives in their own practice. What does it mean, in practice, to unlearn the archive? What does it mean to do so from the global periphery, the still present specter of a third world
Bound to Violence
This dialogue, recorded in 2021, explores the sound and feel of South-South political theory from the perspective of Southern Africa. The interlocutors discuss the question of violence and nonviolence in revolutionary change across generational divides. It centers the enduring place of spirit and ancestral voices in South Africa and Zimbabwe
African history and culture analysis (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · History (3 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (2 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works)