Fassil Demissie
Biographic Data
| ID | 229177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fassil Demissie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fassil |
| FAMILY NAME | Demissie |
| SIGNATURE | DEMISSIE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Special Issue: Hybridizing and decolonizing the metropole: Stuart Hall, Caribbean routes and diasporic identity
Source: © Stuart Hall Family Achiev Three months at Oxford persuaded me that it was not my home ... I’m not English and I never will be. The life I have lived is one of partial displacement. I came t
Ethiopian female domestic workers in the Middle East and Gulf States: An introduction
In a video shot outside by an anonymous bystander very close to the Ethiopian Consulate in Beirut, Lebanon on February 2012, a 33-year-old Ethiopian female domestic worker was savagely beaten and v
Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories
Contents: Colonial architecture and urbanism in Africa: an introduction, Fassil Demissie Part I Archaeology of Colonial Architectural and Urbanism: French territoriality and urbanism: General Lyautey and Architect Prost in Morocco (1912-1925), Hassan Radoine Architectural transfer, Italian colonial architecture in Libya: 'Libyan rationalism' and the concept of 'Mediterraneity', 1926-1942, Vittoria Capresi Imperial sanctuaries: Arab urban enclaves…
Living across worlds and oceans – an introduction
‘I have no future in Ethiopia, ... I've seen Europe on TV, and it's better.’**. Abdirizak Mohamed Mohamoud. Accessed January 21, 2016. http://www.irinnews.org/report/94279/ethiopia-cautionary-migrati
A Note to My Sisters of the Diaspora
The new scramble over Africa's farmland: An Introduction
I'm convinced that farmland is going to be one of the best investments of our time. Eventually, of course, food prices will get high enough that the market probably will be flooded with supply thro
African Diaspora and the Metropolis: Reading the African, African American and Caribbean Experience
Postcolonial African Cities: Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicament
1. Imperial Legacies and Post-Colonial Predicament: An Introduction. 2. Metropolitanism, Capital and Patrimony: Theorizing the Postcolonial West African City. 3. Casting a Long Shadow: Colonial Categories, Cultural Identities, and Cosmopolitan Spaces in Globalizing Africa. 4. Viewing Post-Colonial Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Through Civic Spaces: A Question of Class. 5. Transforming urban landscapes: Soccer fields as sites of urban sociability in the…
Film Review
Reinventing Africa in La Goutte-d'Or, Paris: Photographic essay
This photographic essay is about a multiethnic urban immigrant quartier in central Paris. The text and the selection of photographs reflect a mediation on urban space in the Goutte d'Or and the ways in which transnational migrants from North and West Africa imprint Paris with their own rhythms, images, and culture
Global Cities of the South/Urban Subjects An Introduction
Displaying colonial artifacts in Paris at the Musée Permanent des Colonies to Musée du Quai Branly
The vast cultural artifacts plundered from Africa, Asia, the Pacific region, and the Americas – regions in which France once had colonies, have been distributed among various museums in Paris. For the past seven decades, much of these artifacts from the colonies were at various museums including the Musée Permanent des Colonies (whose name has changed several times) until President Chirac officially inaugurated the new Musée du Quai Branly. The a…
Aimé Césaire: Poetics and politics
‘Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge’ (Aime Cesaire) Sociologist Mimi Shiller (2003, p. 1) cogently argued that the: Caribbean lies at the heart of the western hem
African diaspora and the metropolis: An introduction
Situated neoliberalism and urban crisis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The implosion of the socialist military government in 1991 ushered in a ‘new’ period in Ethiopia. This article examines the reincorporation of the country into the sphere of neoliberalism after a hiatus of 17 years of socialist experimentation accompanied by a social engineering project which brought unprecedented misfortune in the modern history of the country. The Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), which assumed power, ad…
Navigating the African diaspora through film: Interview with Euzhan Palcy
A tribute to Ousmane Sembène
Imperial legacies and postcolonial predicaments: An Introduction
Visual fragments of Kinshasa
The recent transformation of the urban landscape of Kinshasa is documented by the Belgian photographer Marie‐Françoise Plissart whose images capture the palpable manifestation of a rapidly decomposing city, its urban landscape, and the lives of those whose existence has been irrevocably altered by forces outside their immediate control. The images captured by Marie‐Francoise Plissart in Kinshasa resonate with those also found in Lagos, Johannesbu…
A tribute to Ousmane Sembène
Controlling and 'Civilising Natives' through architecture and town planning in South Africa
The discourse of ‘Native housing’ in apartheid South Africa derived its architectural language and design principles from modern architecture, which became popular in Europe and America during the inter‐war period. As a particular architectural discourse, ‘native housing’ and ‘township’ were not just simply an architectural drawing or a plan, which described the configuration of a building or a neighbourhood. Rather it was part of a web of practi…
Exhibiting and Reimagining Africa
Displaying Race and Exhibiting Empires in the 1930s
(2003). Displaying Race and Exhibiting Empires in the 1930s. Social Identities: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 127-138
Architecture in Nigeria: Architectures of the Hausa and Yoruba Peoples, and of the Many Peoples between Tradition and Modernism
Nigeria and its buildings building materials two ancient architectures Hausa town architecture influences from outside Africa palaces religious building form and decoration traditional architecture today peoples mentioned in the text towns and places mentioned
In the Shadow of the Gold Mines: Migrancy and Mine Housing in South Africa
The profitability of the gold mining industry has long been based upon the exploitation of the vast reserves of African migrant labour drawn from South Africa and the sub-continent. A central institution of the migrant labour force has been and continues to be the vast housing complex, where the majority of the industry's 700 000 migrant workers are housed in single-sex barrack-like accommodation under the tight control of the mining industry. Al…
Imperial legacies and postcolonial predicaments: An Introduction
Ethiopian female domestic workers in the Middle East and Gulf States: An introduction
In a video shot outside by an anonymous bystander very close to the Ethiopian Consulate in Beirut, Lebanon on February 2012, a 33-year-old Ethiopian female domestic worker was savagely beaten and v
Situated neoliberalism and urban crisis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The implosion of the socialist military government in 1991 ushered in a ‘new’ period in Ethiopia. This article examines the reincorporation of the country into the sphere of neoliberalism after a hiatus of 17 years of socialist experimentation accompanied by a social engineering project which brought unprecedented misfortune in the modern history of the country. The Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), which assumed power, ad…
Global Cities of the South/Urban Subjects An Introduction
Controlling and 'Civilising Natives' through architecture and town planning in South Africa
The discourse of ‘Native housing’ in apartheid South Africa derived its architectural language and design principles from modern architecture, which became popular in Europe and America during the inter‐war period. As a particular architectural discourse, ‘native housing’ and ‘township’ were not just simply an architectural drawing or a plan, which described the configuration of a building or a neighbourhood. Rather it was part of a web of practi…
In the Shadow of the Gold Mines: Migrancy and Mine Housing in South Africa
The profitability of the gold mining industry has long been based upon the exploitation of the vast reserves of African migrant labour drawn from South Africa and the sub-continent. A central institution of the migrant labour force has been and continues to be the vast housing complex, where the majority of the industry's 700 000 migrant workers are housed in single-sex barrack-like accommodation under the tight control of the mining industry. Al…
Living across worlds and oceans – an introduction
‘I have no future in Ethiopia, ... I've seen Europe on TV, and it's better.’**. Abdirizak Mohamed Mohamoud. Accessed January 21, 2016. http://www.irinnews.org/report/94279/ethiopia-cautionary-migrati
Postcolonial African Cities: Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicament
1. Imperial Legacies and Post-Colonial Predicament: An Introduction. 2. Metropolitanism, Capital and Patrimony: Theorizing the Postcolonial West African City. 3. Casting a Long Shadow: Colonial Categories, Cultural Identities, and Cosmopolitan Spaces in Globalizing Africa. 4. Viewing Post-Colonial Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Through Civic Spaces: A Question of Class. 5. Transforming urban landscapes: Soccer fields as sites of urban sociability in the…
African diaspora and the metropolis: An introduction
Exhibiting and Reimagining Africa
Displaying Race and Exhibiting Empires in the 1930s
(2003). Displaying Race and Exhibiting Empires in the 1930s. Social Identities: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 127-138
An Enchanting Darkness: A New Representation of Africa
Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
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Ethiopia and Eritrea During the Scramble for Africa: A Political Biography of Ras Alulá, 1875-1897
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The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Vol. I 1826-August 1919 and Vol II August 1919 - August 1920
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Africa and the World Bank: Notes on Africa's Option in Development
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Decolonization in West African States with French Colonial Legacy. Comparison and Contrast: Development in Guinea, the Ivory Coast and Senegal 1945-1980
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The Anatomy of Famine
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South-South Relations in a Changing World Order
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Double Burden: African Women Under Apartheid
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A Note to My Sisters of the Diaspora
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The Merchants of Charity
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Famine: Not a Media Event
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The Urban African Worker and the Crisis of Apartheid
No abstract
Sophiatown: Coming of an Age in South Africa
Pass Controls and the Urban African Proletariat in South Africa
Sadcc: The Political Economy of Development in Southern Africa
The Apartheid City and beyond: Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa
Apartheid as legislated racial separation substantially changed the South African urban scene. Race group areas' remodelled the cities, while the creation of homelands', mini-states and the pass laws' controlling population migration constrained urbanization itself. In the mid-1980s the old system - having proved economically inefficient and politically divisive - was replaced by a new policy of orderly urbanization'. This sought to accelerate in…
The Rural-Urban Interface in Africa: Expansion and Adaptation
Agricultural marketing and processing activities in two district service centres in the communal areas of Zimbabwe The size of the enterprises in the agricultural marketing and processing sector in two district service centres in Zimbabwe Economically active population (all household members) by ethnicity in Addis Ababa Gurage migrants: reasons for coming to Addis Ababa Place of residence for Gurage migrants on their arrival in Addis Ababa Presen…
An Enchanting Darkness: A New Representation of Africa
Beyond Urban Bias in Africa: Urbanization in an Era of Structural Adjustment
Representing Architecture in South Africa
African Nomadic Architecture: Space, Place and Gender
In the Shadow of the Gold Mines: Migrancy and Mine Housing in South Africa
The profitability of the gold mining industry has long been based upon the exploitation of the vast reserves of African migrant labour drawn from South Africa and the sub-continent. A central institution of the migrant labour force has been and continues to be the vast housing complex, where the majority of the industry's 700 000 migrant workers are housed in single-sex barrack-like accommodation under the tight control of the mining industry. Al…
Architecture in Nigeria: Architectures of the Hausa and Yoruba Peoples, and of the Many Peoples between Tradition and Modernism
Nigeria and its buildings building materials two ancient architectures Hausa town architecture influences from outside Africa palaces religious building form and decoration traditional architecture today peoples mentioned in the text towns and places mentioned
Exhibiting and Reimagining Africa
Displaying Race and Exhibiting Empires in the 1930s
(2003). Displaying Race and Exhibiting Empires in the 1930s. Social Identities: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 127-138
Political science (24 works) · Geography (23 works) · Sociology (21 works) · History (18 works) · African history and culture studies (14 works) · Archaeology (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works)