Eric Covey
Biographic Data
| ID | 844424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Covey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Covey |
| SIGNATURE | COVEY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grand Valley State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1776-1178 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Ideological Scramble for Africa
At a recent meeting of the Abuja Literary Society, I listened to attendees discuss the economic, political, and social developments they continued to hope for over sixty years after Nigerian independence. Then they moved on to debate whether or not Nigerians were even “ready” for the advanced level of development that many of them associate with nations in the Global North. This debate about the psychology of development in the Global South is no…
The anti-apartheid movement at Grand Valley State College in West Michigan
The history of the anti-apartheid movement at Michigan’s public universities tends to focus on MSU in Lansing, UM in Ann Arbor, and WMU in Kalamazoo. The anti-apartheid movement outside of these and a few less-well-known cases remains largely unknown. Drawing on a small selection of archival documents, this essay explores the history of the anti-apartheid movement at Grand Valley State College in West Michigan, a region presently most well known …
The United States and Africa in Oxford, Ohio
US students often fail to see the global histories of the local sites they inhabit or how capitalism and militarism configure these landscapes in significant ways. In this reflection on critical pedagogy, I describe my interdisciplinary approach to situating Africa and the United States at the intersections of capitalism and militarism in three historical periods: during the Atlantic slave trade, after the so-called scramble for Africa, and in th…
Private Military Companies and Neoliberal Adventure in Roll Hard (2013) and Executive Outcomes (2015)
Frontier Risk” and the Sino-American Scramble in the Sahel
While the Pacific—especially the South China Sea—has often been imagined as a possible site of conflict between China and the United States, Africa has emerged as another landscape on which Chinese and US power must be negotiated. As has often been the case across the continent, mercenarism is one of the mediating forces between these two outside powers. This essay examines two mercenary narratives set in Africa that explore the fate of formerly …
Remembering for empire
In 2004, the Smithsonian debuted “The Price of Freedom: Americans at War,” a permanent exhibition at the National Museum of American History in Washington DC. The exhibit occasioned strong criticism for its privatization of public memory and glorification of militarism. What has gone unexamined, however, is the curious absence of the 1801–1805 War with Tripoli from the exhibit. This war has long been invoked as an important lesson in US exception…
The Ideological Scramble for Africa
At a recent meeting of the Abuja Literary Society, I listened to attendees discuss the economic, political, and social developments they continued to hope for over sixty years after Nigerian independence. Then they moved on to debate whether or not Nigerians were even “ready” for the advanced level of development that many of them associate with nations in the Global North. This debate about the psychology of development in the Global South is no…
Frontier Risk” and the Sino-American Scramble in the Sahel
While the Pacific—especially the South China Sea—has often been imagined as a possible site of conflict between China and the United States, Africa has emerged as another landscape on which Chinese and US power must be negotiated. As has often been the case across the continent, mercenarism is one of the mediating forces between these two outside powers. This essay examines two mercenary narratives set in Africa that explore the fate of formerly …
Remembering for empire
In 2004, the Smithsonian debuted “The Price of Freedom: Americans at War,” a permanent exhibition at the National Museum of American History in Washington DC. The exhibit occasioned strong criticism for its privatization of public memory and glorification of militarism. What has gone unexamined, however, is the curious absence of the 1801–1805 War with Tripoli from the exhibit. This war has long been invoked as an important lesson in US exception…
Frontier Risk” and the Sino-American Scramble in the Sahel
While the Pacific—especially the South China Sea—has often been imagined as a possible site of conflict between China and the United States, Africa has emerged as another landscape on which Chinese and US power must be negotiated. As has often been the case across the continent, mercenarism is one of the mediating forces between these two outside powers. This essay examines two mercenary narratives set in Africa that explore the fate of formerly …
Private Military Companies and Neoliberal Adventure in Roll Hard (2013) and Executive Outcomes (2015)
The United States and Africa in Oxford, Ohio
US students often fail to see the global histories of the local sites they inhabit or how capitalism and militarism configure these landscapes in significant ways. In this reflection on critical pedagogy, I describe my interdisciplinary approach to situating Africa and the United States at the intersections of capitalism and militarism in three historical periods: during the Atlantic slave trade, after the so-called scramble for Africa, and in th…
The anti-apartheid movement at Grand Valley State College in West Michigan
The history of the anti-apartheid movement at Michigan’s public universities tends to focus on MSU in Lansing, UM in Ann Arbor, and WMU in Kalamazoo. The anti-apartheid movement outside of these and a few less-well-known cases remains largely unknown. Drawing on a small selection of archival documents, this essay explores the history of the anti-apartheid movement at Grand Valley State College in West Michigan, a region presently most well known …
The Ideological Scramble for Africa
At a recent meeting of the Abuja Literary Society, I listened to attendees discuss the economic, political, and social developments they continued to hope for over sixty years after Nigerian independence. Then they moved on to debate whether or not Nigerians were even “ready” for the advanced level of development that many of them associate with nations in the Global North. This debate about the psychology of development in the Global South is no…
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Militarism (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)