Alexander Meckelburg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4049566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Meckelburg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Meckelburg |
| SIGNATURE | MECKELBURG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2246-3287 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Abolitionist Decrees in Ethiopia: The Evolution of Anti-Slavery Legal Strategies from Menilek to Haile Selassie, 1889–1942
Slavery and the slave trade were fundamental institutions in Ethiopian history. Their abolition was a protracted process that involved developing, debating, passing, and applying multiple anti-slavery and anti-slave trade edicts and decrees under successive rulers. While slavery existed in various societies that were later integrated in the Abyssinian empire since the second half of the nineteenth century and took different forms based on differe…
Researching the Aftermath of Slavery in Mainland East Africa: Methodological, Ethical, and Practical Challenges
This article examines ethical, practical, and methodological challenges in researching the aftermath of slavery in continental East Africa away from the coastal plantation belt. Interest in post-slavery there is recent and inspired by the apparent contrast with West Africa, where the issue is much more salient. The article explains this silence by highlighting politically-motivated avoidance of the issue in colonial sources and the preference of …
Ethiopian Refugees in Kenya c.1937–1941: A Note on the Photo Collection at the Kenyan National Archive
The Kenya National Archives in Nairobi hosts a large collection of photos of British refugee camps taken during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia. This brief overview of the collection does not endeavour to analyse this little-known aspect of Ethiopian history but to introduce the photo collection as a possible tool to assess the history of migration and refuge in this part of the world
Introduction: From Subjecthood to Citizenship in the Horn of Africa
Introduction| October 01 2020 Introduction: From Subjecthood to Citizenship in the Horn of Africa Nicola Camilleri; Nicola Camilleri University of Padova Nicola Camilleri is a historian of Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially of Italy and Germany and their colonial history. Currently he is a postdoctoral research fellow in the ERC project “The Dark Side of the Belle Époque: Armed Associations and Political Viole…
Subjects of History: Administrative Categories, Ethnic Labels, and the Limits of Cultural Citizenship in Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, as elsewhere in Africa, the boundaries of political belonging have always shifted. They continue to do so. Since the 1995 constitution, in a both peculiar and complex manner, ethnicity has been included in the apparatus of rights and practices, with often far-reaching consequences for Ethiopian nation-building. Since 1991, citizenship in Ethiopia can hardly be discussed without reference to the post-1991 ethnofederal system, which wa…
Cultural Creativity and Transnational Belonging: A Glimpse on Transnational Research in Ethiopia and Beyond
The three books under review provide different approaches to North-East African transnational studies. However, their descriptions of migration and transnational life are unified in that they focus on the migrants not as mere victims of their plight but on their agency and creativity both during the process of migration and in the descriptions of their settling and making a new life
Children of Hope: The Odyssey of the Oromo Slaves from Ethiopia to South Africa
Oral traditions in Ethiopian studies
This volume contains a collection of essays, some of which were first presented at a panel on Oral Traditions in Ethiopian Studies held at the 18th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies in Derre Dawa in September 2012. The panel asked to investigate the proposition that, in the history of Ethiopian studies, reflection on the methodology of orality has not received the attention it deserves, given its importance in many fields of research.…
From “Subject to Citizen”? History, Identity and Minority Citizenship: The Case of the Mao and Komo of Western Ethiopia
Dissertation abstract
Alfredo González-Ruibal, An Archaeology of Resistance: Materiality and Time in an African Borderland
Review
Revisiting Slavery and the Slave Trade in Ethiopia
Slavery remains one of the blind spots in the historiography of the Horn of Africa in general and Ethiopia in particular. This is peculiar in light of the fact that in the territories of the Horn slavery left a significant imprint on the sociocultural fabric, and that the ports along the Horn of Africa coast fed the slave trade to the Arab, Ottoman, and Indian Ocean worlds for many centuries. In this article, we highlight some of the research tre…
Ethiopia and Great Britain: A Note on the Anti-Slavery Protocol of 1884
The emperor of Ethiopia, Yoḥannǝs IV (r. 1872–89), signed a peace treaty with Britain in 1884, which ended the Egyptian–Ethiopian war. This treaty was negotiated by Rear Admiral Sir William Hewett on behalf of the British government. In the treaty’s appendix, Emperor Yoḥannǝs IV also signed an anti-slavery agreement in which he confirmed his will to eliminate the slave trade in all territories under his control. Although the “Hewett treaty” has r…
Awet Tewelde Weldemichael, Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation: Eritrea and East Timor Compared
Review
Christophe van de Beken: Unity in Diversity – Federalism as a Mechanism to accommodate Ethnic Diversity: The Case of Ethiopia
Review
Volker Matthies: Unternehmen Magdala: Strafexpedition in Äthiopien
Review
Volker Matthies: The Siege of Magdala. The British Empire against the Emperor of Ethiopia
Review
John Markakis: Ethiopia. The Last Two Frontiers
Review
Afrika
Vier Jahre nach Beendigung des Krieges im angolanischen Kernland scheint sich auch im Sezessionskonflikt in der Exklave Cabinda eine friedliche Lösung anzubahnen, nachdem die angolanische Regierung Anfang August einen Friedensvertrag mit Vertretern der Frente de Libertação do Enclave de Cabinda (FLEC, Front für die Befreiung der Enklave Cabinda) unterzeichnet hat. Der Vertrag ist allerdings umstritten und wird von Teilen sowohl der FLEC als auch …
Afrika
Auch drei Jahre nach Beendigung des Krieges im angolanischen Kernland wurde der bewaffnete Konflikt in der Exklave Cabinda mit geringer Intensität fortgesetzt. In dem zum angolanischen Staatsgebiet gehörenden Territorium kam es seit den 1970er Jahren immer wieder zu bewaffneten Zusammenstößen zwischen verschiedenen Splittergruppen der Freute de Libertação do Enclave de Cabinda (FLEC, Front für die Befreiung der Enklave Cabinda) und Regierungsstre…
Researching the Aftermath of Slavery in Mainland East Africa: Methodological, Ethical, and Practical Challenges
This article examines ethical, practical, and methodological challenges in researching the aftermath of slavery in continental East Africa away from the coastal plantation belt. Interest in post-slavery there is recent and inspired by the apparent contrast with West Africa, where the issue is much more salient. The article explains this silence by highlighting politically-motivated avoidance of the issue in colonial sources and the preference of …
Introduction: From Subjecthood to Citizenship in the Horn of Africa
Introduction| October 01 2020 Introduction: From Subjecthood to Citizenship in the Horn of Africa Nicola Camilleri; Nicola Camilleri University of Padova Nicola Camilleri is a historian of Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially of Italy and Germany and their colonial history. Currently he is a postdoctoral research fellow in the ERC project “The Dark Side of the Belle Époque: Armed Associations and Political Viole…
Revisiting Slavery and the Slave Trade in Ethiopia
Slavery remains one of the blind spots in the historiography of the Horn of Africa in general and Ethiopia in particular. This is peculiar in light of the fact that in the territories of the Horn slavery left a significant imprint on the sociocultural fabric, and that the ports along the Horn of Africa coast fed the slave trade to the Arab, Ottoman, and Indian Ocean worlds for many centuries. In this article, we highlight some of the research tre…
Ethiopia and Great Britain: A Note on the Anti-Slavery Protocol of 1884
The emperor of Ethiopia, Yoḥannǝs IV (r. 1872–89), signed a peace treaty with Britain in 1884, which ended the Egyptian–Ethiopian war. This treaty was negotiated by Rear Admiral Sir William Hewett on behalf of the British government. In the treaty’s appendix, Emperor Yoḥannǝs IV also signed an anti-slavery agreement in which he confirmed his will to eliminate the slave trade in all territories under his control. Although the “Hewett treaty” has r…
Afrika
Auch drei Jahre nach Beendigung des Krieges im angolanischen Kernland wurde der bewaffnete Konflikt in der Exklave Cabinda mit geringer Intensität fortgesetzt. In dem zum angolanischen Staatsgebiet gehörenden Territorium kam es seit den 1970er Jahren immer wieder zu bewaffneten Zusammenstößen zwischen verschiedenen Splittergruppen der Freute de Libertação do Enclave de Cabinda (FLEC, Front für die Befreiung der Enklave Cabinda) und Regierungsstre…
Afrika
Vier Jahre nach Beendigung des Krieges im angolanischen Kernland scheint sich auch im Sezessionskonflikt in der Exklave Cabinda eine friedliche Lösung anzubahnen, nachdem die angolanische Regierung Anfang August einen Friedensvertrag mit Vertretern der Frente de Libertação do Enclave de Cabinda (FLEC, Front für die Befreiung der Enklave Cabinda) unterzeichnet hat. Der Vertrag ist allerdings umstritten und wird von Teilen sowohl der FLEC als auch …
Volker Matthies: Unternehmen Magdala: Strafexpedition in Äthiopien
Review
Volker Matthies: The Siege of Magdala. The British Empire against the Emperor of Ethiopia
Review
John Markakis: Ethiopia. The Last Two Frontiers
Review
Christophe van de Beken: Unity in Diversity – Federalism as a Mechanism to accommodate Ethnic Diversity: The Case of Ethiopia
Review
Awet Tewelde Weldemichael, Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation: Eritrea and East Timor Compared
Review
Revisiting Slavery and the Slave Trade in Ethiopia
Slavery remains one of the blind spots in the historiography of the Horn of Africa in general and Ethiopia in particular. This is peculiar in light of the fact that in the territories of the Horn slavery left a significant imprint on the sociocultural fabric, and that the ports along the Horn of Africa coast fed the slave trade to the Arab, Ottoman, and Indian Ocean worlds for many centuries. In this article, we highlight some of the research tre…
Ethiopia and Great Britain: A Note on the Anti-Slavery Protocol of 1884
The emperor of Ethiopia, Yoḥannǝs IV (r. 1872–89), signed a peace treaty with Britain in 1884, which ended the Egyptian–Ethiopian war. This treaty was negotiated by Rear Admiral Sir William Hewett on behalf of the British government. In the treaty’s appendix, Emperor Yoḥannǝs IV also signed an anti-slavery agreement in which he confirmed his will to eliminate the slave trade in all territories under his control. Although the “Hewett treaty” has r…
Oral traditions in Ethiopian studies
This volume contains a collection of essays, some of which were first presented at a panel on Oral Traditions in Ethiopian Studies held at the 18th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies in Derre Dawa in September 2012. The panel asked to investigate the proposition that, in the history of Ethiopian studies, reflection on the methodology of orality has not received the attention it deserves, given its importance in many fields of research.…
From “Subject to Citizen”? History, Identity and Minority Citizenship: The Case of the Mao and Komo of Western Ethiopia
Dissertation abstract
Alfredo González-Ruibal, An Archaeology of Resistance: Materiality and Time in an African Borderland
Review
Children of Hope: The Odyssey of the Oromo Slaves from Ethiopia to South Africa
Introduction: From Subjecthood to Citizenship in the Horn of Africa
Introduction| October 01 2020 Introduction: From Subjecthood to Citizenship in the Horn of Africa Nicola Camilleri; Nicola Camilleri University of Padova Nicola Camilleri is a historian of Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially of Italy and Germany and their colonial history. Currently he is a postdoctoral research fellow in the ERC project “The Dark Side of the Belle Époque: Armed Associations and Political Viole…
Subjects of History: Administrative Categories, Ethnic Labels, and the Limits of Cultural Citizenship in Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, as elsewhere in Africa, the boundaries of political belonging have always shifted. They continue to do so. Since the 1995 constitution, in a both peculiar and complex manner, ethnicity has been included in the apparatus of rights and practices, with often far-reaching consequences for Ethiopian nation-building. Since 1991, citizenship in Ethiopia can hardly be discussed without reference to the post-1991 ethnofederal system, which wa…
Cultural Creativity and Transnational Belonging: A Glimpse on Transnational Research in Ethiopia and Beyond
The three books under review provide different approaches to North-East African transnational studies. However, their descriptions of migration and transnational life are unified in that they focus on the migrants not as mere victims of their plight but on their agency and creativity both during the process of migration and in the descriptions of their settling and making a new life
Ethiopian Refugees in Kenya c.1937–1941: A Note on the Photo Collection at the Kenyan National Archive
The Kenya National Archives in Nairobi hosts a large collection of photos of British refugee camps taken during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia. This brief overview of the collection does not endeavour to analyse this little-known aspect of Ethiopian history but to introduce the photo collection as a possible tool to assess the history of migration and refuge in this part of the world
Researching the Aftermath of Slavery in Mainland East Africa: Methodological, Ethical, and Practical Challenges
This article examines ethical, practical, and methodological challenges in researching the aftermath of slavery in continental East Africa away from the coastal plantation belt. Interest in post-slavery there is recent and inspired by the apparent contrast with West Africa, where the issue is much more salient. The article explains this silence by highlighting politically-motivated avoidance of the issue in colonial sources and the preference of …
Abolitionist Decrees in Ethiopia: The Evolution of Anti-Slavery Legal Strategies from Menilek to Haile Selassie, 1889–1942
Slavery and the slave trade were fundamental institutions in Ethiopian history. Their abolition was a protracted process that involved developing, debating, passing, and applying multiple anti-slavery and anti-slave trade edicts and decrees under successive rulers. While slavery existed in various societies that were later integrated in the Abyssinian empire since the second half of the nineteenth century and took different forms based on differe…
Political science (15 works) · African history and culture analysis (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · African history and culture studies (10 works) · History (10 works) · Geography (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works)