D Freeman
Biographic Data
| ID | 25125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Freeman |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Freeman |
| SIGNATURE | FREEMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shanghai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2683-8859 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Using Global Democracy to Build Global Democracy: Paradoxes and Pitfalls in the World Government Movement’s Attempts to Transform Post–War Global Governance, 1945–1955
Straight after the formation of the United Nations in 1945, a flood of proposals for how to reform or transform the new organisation emerged. One idea was that it should be transformed into a democratic world government. This article focuses on the early years of the world government movement and discusses three attempts to transform post–war global governance – by convening a People’s World Constitutional Convention to draft the charter of an al…
Globalization and State Autonomy: The Case of Ethiopia 1991–2018
Critical scholars argue that African states ceded policy autonomy to global neoliberal forces through aid conditionality. This study investigates the Ethiopian state's relative autonomy amid globalization. Based on an analysis of archival materials, policy documents, and other sources, we argue that despite growing neoliberal influence since the 1990s, Ethiopia has managed to maintain a high degree of relative autonomy, overtly and covertly resis…
The Counter‐Hegemonic Internationalism of Josué de Castro: A Radical Brazilian in the Mid‐Twentieth Century World Government Movement
The histories of concepts of, and movements for, world government and world citizenship are recounted almost entirely as histories of the West or of Western political thought. However, new archival research shows that there was significant involvement from intellectuals, politicians and activists from many parts of the Global South. As part of a broader project to uncover the history of these Global South ‘globalists’ and their contributions to t…
Sovereignty, human rights and the regulation of transnational corporations: A critical spatial analysis of civil society proposals for a binding treaty
This article develops a critical spatial analysis of contemporary proposals to regulate transnational corporations (TNCs). Following an analysis of the existing topology of international regulatory space, the article develops a model of alternative spatial orders which would enable TNC regulation and uses this model to critically assess the different spatial orders implicit in the major proposals being tabled by two civil society groupings in the…
Tearfund and the Quest for Faith-Based Development
This book gives an in-depth analysis of the role of faith in the work of Tearfund, a leading evangelical relief and development NGO that works in over 50 countries worldwide. The study traces the changing ways that faith has shaped and influenced Tearfund’s work over the organisation’s 50-year history. It shows how Tearfund has consciously grappled with the role of faith in its work and has invested considerable time and energy in developing an i…
De-Democratisation and Rising Inequality: The Underlying Cause of a Worrying Trend
This article is concerned with the question of why economic inequality has increased so dramatically in recent decades and what can be done about it. It suggests that the fundamental cause of the recent rise in economic inequality, underlying all the more proximate factors, is a major process of de-democratisation that has taken place since the 1970s, which has increased the political representation of capital while reducing that of labour. The a…
From 'Christians doing development' to 'doing Christian development: The changing role of religion in the international work of Tearfund
This article seeks to bring more nuance to recent discussions about the role of faith in religious development NGOs. It takes an in-depth look at Tearfund, a leading Evangelical development NGO, and explores the ways in which faith shapes its conceptualisation of development, its programme design, and its implementation strategy. The article traces the process through which Tearfund actively sought to bring faith into the centre of its developmen…
Affordances of Rupture and their Enactment: A Framework for Understanding Christian Change
This paper moves forward the debate about continuity and rupture in Christian change by approaching it as an empirical rather than theoretical question and interrogating it using a broad comparative method. It argues firstly that different forms of Christianity - Orthodox, Catholic, mainline Protestant and Pentecostal - have cultural logics which offer different affordances of rupture; and secondly that in those cases where Christianity affords r…
The Global South at the UN: Using International Politics to Re-Vision the Global
This article argues that the countries of the Global South have defined themselves in a globally-positioned way since the 1960s—long before the current wave of neoliberal globalization or academic thinking about the "Global South." This is shown by tracing the history of the formation of the Global South as a political bloc as the Group of 77 (G77) and in their aspirations and negotiations at the United Nations. The article explores how the G77 a…
Techniques of happiness: Moving toward and away from the good life in a rural Ethiopian community
This article seeks to tease apart some of the different factors and cultural practices that lead toward and away from happiness in particular social and cultural contexts. It considers happiness as experienced in the community of Masho in the Gamo Highlands of southwest Ethiopia at two different points in time. It starts by exploring the traditional Gamo concept of happiness and the way that happiness was experienced in the mid-1990s mainly as pe…
Dinah Rajak, In Good Company: An Anatomy of Corporate Social Responsibility
Schlee, Günther, and Abdullahi A. Shongolo: Islam and Ethnicity in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia
Anthropos , Seite 364 - 364
Development and the Rural Entrepreneur: Pentecostals, NGOs and the Market in the Gamo Highlands, Ethiopia
Since the late 1980s structural adjustment programmes and neoliberal economic policies have been implemented across Africa, largely at the behest of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). These policies include financial liberalisation, export-oriented industrial policy, the promotion of private sector development and a major cutting back in state spending (Bond & Dor 2003: 1). The neoliberal project in Ethiopia began in 1992, …
The Pentecostal Ethic and the Spirit of Development
The practice and discipline of development was founded on the belief that religion was not important to development processes.1 As societies developed and modernised, it was assumed that they would also undergo a process of secularisation. The irrelevance of religion for development is a cornerstone of ‘modernisation theory’, with its narrow focus on economic growth, which dominated development theory and practice from the 1950s to the 1980s (Den…
Pentecostalism and development: Churches, NGOs and social change in Africa
The Pentecostal Ethic and the Spirit of Development D.Freeman PART I: PENTECOSTALISM AND THE NEOLIBERAL TURN Pentecostalism, Populism and the New Politics of Affect J.Comaroff Prosperity Gospels and Enchanted Worldviews: Two Responses to Socio-Economic Transformations in Tanzanian Pentecostal Christianity P.Hasu Pentecostalism and Post-Development: Pentecostal Development Ideologies in Ghanaian Migrant Communities R.van Dijk PART II: CHURCHES AND…
Europe, China, and Expectations for Human Rights
The issue of human rights has been one of the most sensitive elements in the EU–China relationship. It is difficult to deal with in the official relationship between the EU and the Chinese government, and has caused controversy in public opinion and in the media. The question of human rights often appears as the aspect of the relationship between Europe and China that constitutes the greatest and most destabilizing of differences between them. We…
Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation
Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation
Dena Freeman, Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: causes and consequences of cultural transformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hard covers £40.00, US$60.00, ISBN 0 521 81854 0). 2002, 180 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 4
Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation
Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation. By Dena Freeman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 180; 3 maps, 6 figures, 10 b/w photographs. $55.00. In this rich historical/ethnographic account of life in the Gamo Highlands of Southern Ethiopia-an area on which little anthropological work has been done-Dena Freeman poses the following ethnographic puzzle: In a society that practices …
Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation
Cross-Cultural Interviewing
Using Petitions to Teach Slavery
For many years, the historical experience of slavery has occupied a unique niche in the minds of Americans. For some, the presence of enslaved Africans, while unfortunate, did not necessarily mean that American democracy was flawed (after all, they argued, American slavery was not all that bad). Others were repulsed by the institution and labeled the United States Constitution an immoral document for protecting the horrors of slavery. Regardless …
From Warrior to Wife: Cultural Transformation in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia
This article focuses on cultural transformation in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia and seeks to explain the way in which certain initiation rituals have transformed over time. The article begins by considering two structural variants of the initiation ritual that exist in two neighbouring communities, Doko Gembela and Doko Masho, and argues that one is an historical transformation of the other. After comparing the contemporary form of these two va…
Affordances of Rupture and their Enactment: A Framework for Understanding Christian Change
This paper moves forward the debate about continuity and rupture in Christian change by approaching it as an empirical rather than theoretical question and interrogating it using a broad comparative method. It argues firstly that different forms of Christianity - Orthodox, Catholic, mainline Protestant and Pentecostal - have cultural logics which offer different affordances of rupture; and secondly that in those cases where Christianity affords r…
The Global South at the UN: Using International Politics to Re-Vision the Global
This article argues that the countries of the Global South have defined themselves in a globally-positioned way since the 1960s—long before the current wave of neoliberal globalization or academic thinking about the "Global South." This is shown by tracing the history of the formation of the Global South as a political bloc as the Group of 77 (G77) and in their aspirations and negotiations at the United Nations. The article explores how the G77 a…
Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation
Dena Freeman, Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: causes and consequences of cultural transformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hard covers £40.00, US$60.00, ISBN 0 521 81854 0). 2002, 180 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 4
From Warrior to Wife: Cultural Transformation in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia
This article focuses on cultural transformation in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia and seeks to explain the way in which certain initiation rituals have transformed over time. The article begins by considering two structural variants of the initiation ritual that exist in two neighbouring communities, Doko Gembela and Doko Masho, and argues that one is an historical transformation of the other. After comparing the contemporary form of these two va…
Techniques of happiness: Moving toward and away from the good life in a rural Ethiopian community
This article seeks to tease apart some of the different factors and cultural practices that lead toward and away from happiness in particular social and cultural contexts. It considers happiness as experienced in the community of Masho in the Gamo Highlands of southwest Ethiopia at two different points in time. It starts by exploring the traditional Gamo concept of happiness and the way that happiness was experienced in the mid-1990s mainly as pe…
De-Democratisation and Rising Inequality: The Underlying Cause of a Worrying Trend
This article is concerned with the question of why economic inequality has increased so dramatically in recent decades and what can be done about it. It suggests that the fundamental cause of the recent rise in economic inequality, underlying all the more proximate factors, is a major process of de-democratisation that has taken place since the 1970s, which has increased the political representation of capital while reducing that of labour. The a…
From Warrior to Wife: Cultural Transformation in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia
This article focuses on cultural transformation in the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia and seeks to explain the way in which certain initiation rituals have transformed over time. The article begins by considering two structural variants of the initiation ritual that exist in two neighbouring communities, Doko Gembela and Doko Masho, and argues that one is an historical transformation of the other. After comparing the contemporary form of these two va…
Cross-Cultural Interviewing
Using Petitions to Teach Slavery
For many years, the historical experience of slavery has occupied a unique niche in the minds of Americans. For some, the presence of enslaved Africans, while unfortunate, did not necessarily mean that American democracy was flawed (after all, they argued, American slavery was not all that bad). Others were repulsed by the institution and labeled the United States Constitution an immoral document for protecting the horrors of slavery. Regardless …
Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation
Dena Freeman, Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: causes and consequences of cultural transformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hard covers £40.00, US$60.00, ISBN 0 521 81854 0). 2002, 180 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 4
Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation
Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation. By Dena Freeman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 180; 3 maps, 6 figures, 10 b/w photographs. $55.00. In this rich historical/ethnographic account of life in the Gamo Highlands of Southern Ethiopia-an area on which little anthropological work has been done-Dena Freeman poses the following ethnographic puzzle: In a society that practices …
Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation
Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation
Europe, China, and Expectations for Human Rights
The issue of human rights has been one of the most sensitive elements in the EU–China relationship. It is difficult to deal with in the official relationship between the EU and the Chinese government, and has caused controversy in public opinion and in the media. The question of human rights often appears as the aspect of the relationship between Europe and China that constitutes the greatest and most destabilizing of differences between them. We…
Development and the Rural Entrepreneur: Pentecostals, NGOs and the Market in the Gamo Highlands, Ethiopia
Since the late 1980s structural adjustment programmes and neoliberal economic policies have been implemented across Africa, largely at the behest of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). These policies include financial liberalisation, export-oriented industrial policy, the promotion of private sector development and a major cutting back in state spending (Bond & Dor 2003: 1). The neoliberal project in Ethiopia began in 1992, …
The Pentecostal Ethic and the Spirit of Development
The practice and discipline of development was founded on the belief that religion was not important to development processes.1 As societies developed and modernised, it was assumed that they would also undergo a process of secularisation. The irrelevance of religion for development is a cornerstone of ‘modernisation theory’, with its narrow focus on economic growth, which dominated development theory and practice from the 1950s to the 1980s (Den…
Pentecostalism and development: Churches, NGOs and social change in Africa
The Pentecostal Ethic and the Spirit of Development D.Freeman PART I: PENTECOSTALISM AND THE NEOLIBERAL TURN Pentecostalism, Populism and the New Politics of Affect J.Comaroff Prosperity Gospels and Enchanted Worldviews: Two Responses to Socio-Economic Transformations in Tanzanian Pentecostal Christianity P.Hasu Pentecostalism and Post-Development: Pentecostal Development Ideologies in Ghanaian Migrant Communities R.van Dijk PART II: CHURCHES AND…
Schlee, Günther, and Abdullahi A. Shongolo: Islam and Ethnicity in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia
Anthropos , Seite 364 - 364
Dinah Rajak, In Good Company: An Anatomy of Corporate Social Responsibility
Techniques of happiness: Moving toward and away from the good life in a rural Ethiopian community
This article seeks to tease apart some of the different factors and cultural practices that lead toward and away from happiness in particular social and cultural contexts. It considers happiness as experienced in the community of Masho in the Gamo Highlands of southwest Ethiopia at two different points in time. It starts by exploring the traditional Gamo concept of happiness and the way that happiness was experienced in the mid-1990s mainly as pe…
The Global South at the UN: Using International Politics to Re-Vision the Global
This article argues that the countries of the Global South have defined themselves in a globally-positioned way since the 1960s—long before the current wave of neoliberal globalization or academic thinking about the "Global South." This is shown by tracing the history of the formation of the Global South as a political bloc as the Group of 77 (G77) and in their aspirations and negotiations at the United Nations. The article explores how the G77 a…
De-Democratisation and Rising Inequality: The Underlying Cause of a Worrying Trend
This article is concerned with the question of why economic inequality has increased so dramatically in recent decades and what can be done about it. It suggests that the fundamental cause of the recent rise in economic inequality, underlying all the more proximate factors, is a major process of de-democratisation that has taken place since the 1970s, which has increased the political representation of capital while reducing that of labour. The a…
From 'Christians doing development' to 'doing Christian development: The changing role of religion in the international work of Tearfund
This article seeks to bring more nuance to recent discussions about the role of faith in religious development NGOs. It takes an in-depth look at Tearfund, a leading Evangelical development NGO, and explores the ways in which faith shapes its conceptualisation of development, its programme design, and its implementation strategy. The article traces the process through which Tearfund actively sought to bring faith into the centre of its developmen…
Affordances of Rupture and their Enactment: A Framework for Understanding Christian Change
This paper moves forward the debate about continuity and rupture in Christian change by approaching it as an empirical rather than theoretical question and interrogating it using a broad comparative method. It argues firstly that different forms of Christianity - Orthodox, Catholic, mainline Protestant and Pentecostal - have cultural logics which offer different affordances of rupture; and secondly that in those cases where Christianity affords r…
Tearfund and the Quest for Faith-Based Development
This book gives an in-depth analysis of the role of faith in the work of Tearfund, a leading evangelical relief and development NGO that works in over 50 countries worldwide. The study traces the changing ways that faith has shaped and influenced Tearfund’s work over the organisation’s 50-year history. It shows how Tearfund has consciously grappled with the role of faith in its work and has invested considerable time and energy in developing an i…
Sovereignty, human rights and the regulation of transnational corporations: A critical spatial analysis of civil society proposals for a binding treaty
This article develops a critical spatial analysis of contemporary proposals to regulate transnational corporations (TNCs). Following an analysis of the existing topology of international regulatory space, the article develops a model of alternative spatial orders which would enable TNC regulation and uses this model to critically assess the different spatial orders implicit in the major proposals being tabled by two civil society groupings in the…
Globalization and State Autonomy: The Case of Ethiopia 1991–2018
Critical scholars argue that African states ceded policy autonomy to global neoliberal forces through aid conditionality. This study investigates the Ethiopian state's relative autonomy amid globalization. Based on an analysis of archival materials, policy documents, and other sources, we argue that despite growing neoliberal influence since the 1990s, Ethiopia has managed to maintain a high degree of relative autonomy, overtly and covertly resis…
The Counter‐Hegemonic Internationalism of Josué de Castro: A Radical Brazilian in the Mid‐Twentieth Century World Government Movement
The histories of concepts of, and movements for, world government and world citizenship are recounted almost entirely as histories of the West or of Western political thought. However, new archival research shows that there was significant involvement from intellectuals, politicians and activists from many parts of the Global South. As part of a broader project to uncover the history of these Global South ‘globalists’ and their contributions to t…
Using Global Democracy to Build Global Democracy: Paradoxes and Pitfalls in the World Government Movement’s Attempts to Transform Post–War Global Governance, 1945–1955
Straight after the formation of the United Nations in 1945, a flood of proposals for how to reform or transform the new organisation emerged. One idea was that it should be transformed into a democratic world government. This article focuses on the early years of the world government movement and discusses three attempts to transform post–war global governance – by convening a People’s World Constitutional Convention to draft the charter of an al…
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