Fouad Makki
Biographic Data
| ID | 85263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fouad Makki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fouad |
| FAMILY NAME | Makki |
| SIGNATURE | MAKKI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 151 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Post-Colonial Africa and the World Economy: The Long Waves of Uneven Development
The aim of this article is to examine the interactive dynamics of "Africa" and the "world economy" over the past half century. By relating the overarching developmental trajectory of the continent to the long-wave rhythms of the world economy, the article identifies three relatively articulated periods in the political economy of postcolonial Africa. The first, from circa 1960 to the late 1970s, was a period of state-led developmentalism enabled …
Reframing development theory: The Significance of the Idea of Uneven and Combined Development
Development by Dispossession: Terra Nullius and the Social-Ecology of New Enclosures in Ethiopia
One of the alarming features of the intersection of the world economic crisis with the global food and energy crises has been the tidal wave of large-scale land acquisitions it has unleashed. By enclosing the village commons and extinguishing the customary rights of smallholders, these land grabs are accelerating trends toward large-scale industrial farming and tenure rearrangements favoring international agribusiness. This article situates these…
People, Power, and Land: New Enclosures on a Global Scale
A global land rush is aggressively underway. It is reinventing frontier narratives wherever farmland, rangeland, and forestland appear 'underutilized,' particularly in the Global South. Though the means and motives of these acquisitions are diverse, the lens of 'new enclosures' lends itself to focusing on their similarities. New enclosures surpass the enclosures of bygone centuries in scale and speed and in the plethora of resources they reach. S…
Power and property: Commercialization, enclosures, and the transformation of agrarian relations in Ethiopia
This essay examines the momentous transformations in the agrarian social order of contemporary Ethiopia. It argues that the contemporary world economic, food, and energy crisis is accelerating processes of commercialization and enclosures that are profoundly altering the social and physical landscape of smallholder farming. These dynamics have taken a spatially divergent pattern that maps onto older imperial socio-spatial and cultural hierarchies…
Empire and modernity: Dynastic centralization and official nationalism in late imperial Ethiopia
Conventional accounts of modern state-formation either underplay its contradictory and variegated character or neglect its international dimensions. Against these approaches, alternative theories of state-formation have emerged centred on the constitutive significance of intersocietal relations and differential temporalities. This article develops the latter approaches in relation to the Ethiopian state. Contrary to widespread assumptions of Ethi…
Culture and agency in a colonial public sphere: Religion and the anti-colonial imagination in 1940s Eritrea
Culture and agency in a colonial public sphere: religion and the anti-colonial imagination in 1940s Eritrea* Ever since the late eighteenth century, empires and nations have represented two of the most common forms through which people have imagined their relationship to each other and to the constitution and exercise of state power.While empires have been a feature of world history for millennia, they increasingly came to appear anachronistic fr…
The Spatial Ecology of Power: Long-Distance Trade and State Formation in Northeast Africa
This study examines the longue durée pattern of state formation in northeast Africa by situating its determinate dynamics within a wider constellation of social-property relations and inter-regional exchange networks. Given the social dynamics of tributary relations, increases in surplus extraction typically took the form of extensive territorial expansion rather than intensive augmentation of production, and the supply of means of coercion (weap…
Imperial Fantasies, Colonial Realities: Contesting Power and Culture in Italian Eritrea
There is today widespread recognition that colonialism was ultimately about the institutionalization of an imaginary of profound social inequality anchored in relations of production and asymmetries of power that were justified by ideologies of racial superiority. The assertion of the final alterity of the colonized was crucial to this imaginary and entailed the construction of a social and political order founded on a multidimensional polarity. …
The empire of capital and the remaking of centre-periphery relations
Through most of the second half of the 20th century the idea of 'development' served as a key conceptual marker for understanding global hierarchies of wealth and power. The development initiative acquired epochal significance at the intersection of three world-historical processes: the transition in the regulation of economic activity from laissez-faire to nationally managed economies; the dismantling of colonial empires and the emergence of a T…
Nationalism, state formation and the public sphere: Eritrea 1991–96
This article attempts to situate the transition to statehood in Eritrea in the context of its time, culture, and political history. It argues that the transition is profoundly shaped by the international conjuncture within which it unfolds, as well as by the social and political experiences of the nationalist movements. The economic, social, and political aspects of the transition are highlighted with a view to illuminating their overall trajecto…
Development by Dispossession: Terra Nullius and the Social-Ecology of New Enclosures in Ethiopia
One of the alarming features of the intersection of the world economic crisis with the global food and energy crises has been the tidal wave of large-scale land acquisitions it has unleashed. By enclosing the village commons and extinguishing the customary rights of smallholders, these land grabs are accelerating trends toward large-scale industrial farming and tenure rearrangements favoring international agribusiness. This article situates these…
Power and property: Commercialization, enclosures, and the transformation of agrarian relations in Ethiopia
This essay examines the momentous transformations in the agrarian social order of contemporary Ethiopia. It argues that the contemporary world economic, food, and energy crisis is accelerating processes of commercialization and enclosures that are profoundly altering the social and physical landscape of smallholder farming. These dynamics have taken a spatially divergent pattern that maps onto older imperial socio-spatial and cultural hierarchies…
Reframing development theory: The Significance of the Idea of Uneven and Combined Development
The empire of capital and the remaking of centre-periphery relations
Through most of the second half of the 20th century the idea of 'development' served as a key conceptual marker for understanding global hierarchies of wealth and power. The development initiative acquired epochal significance at the intersection of three world-historical processes: the transition in the regulation of economic activity from laissez-faire to nationally managed economies; the dismantling of colonial empires and the emergence of a T…
Nationalism, state formation and the public sphere: Eritrea 1991–96
This article attempts to situate the transition to statehood in Eritrea in the context of its time, culture, and political history. It argues that the transition is profoundly shaped by the international conjuncture within which it unfolds, as well as by the social and political experiences of the nationalist movements. The economic, social, and political aspects of the transition are highlighted with a view to illuminating their overall trajecto…
People, Power, and Land: New Enclosures on a Global Scale
A global land rush is aggressively underway. It is reinventing frontier narratives wherever farmland, rangeland, and forestland appear 'underutilized,' particularly in the Global South. Though the means and motives of these acquisitions are diverse, the lens of 'new enclosures' lends itself to focusing on their similarities. New enclosures surpass the enclosures of bygone centuries in scale and speed and in the plethora of resources they reach. S…
Empire and modernity: Dynastic centralization and official nationalism in late imperial Ethiopia
Conventional accounts of modern state-formation either underplay its contradictory and variegated character or neglect its international dimensions. Against these approaches, alternative theories of state-formation have emerged centred on the constitutive significance of intersocietal relations and differential temporalities. This article develops the latter approaches in relation to the Ethiopian state. Contrary to widespread assumptions of Ethi…
The Spatial Ecology of Power: Long-Distance Trade and State Formation in Northeast Africa
This study examines the longue durée pattern of state formation in northeast Africa by situating its determinate dynamics within a wider constellation of social-property relations and inter-regional exchange networks. Given the social dynamics of tributary relations, increases in surplus extraction typically took the form of extensive territorial expansion rather than intensive augmentation of production, and the supply of means of coercion (weap…
Post-Colonial Africa and the World Economy: The Long Waves of Uneven Development
The aim of this article is to examine the interactive dynamics of "Africa" and the "world economy" over the past half century. By relating the overarching developmental trajectory of the continent to the long-wave rhythms of the world economy, the article identifies three relatively articulated periods in the political economy of postcolonial Africa. The first, from circa 1960 to the late 1970s, was a period of state-led developmentalism enabled …
Culture and agency in a colonial public sphere: Religion and the anti-colonial imagination in 1940s Eritrea
Culture and agency in a colonial public sphere: religion and the anti-colonial imagination in 1940s Eritrea* Ever since the late eighteenth century, empires and nations have represented two of the most common forms through which people have imagined their relationship to each other and to the constitution and exercise of state power.While empires have been a feature of world history for millennia, they increasingly came to appear anachronistic fr…
Imperial Fantasies, Colonial Realities: Contesting Power and Culture in Italian Eritrea
There is today widespread recognition that colonialism was ultimately about the institutionalization of an imaginary of profound social inequality anchored in relations of production and asymmetries of power that were justified by ideologies of racial superiority. The assertion of the final alterity of the colonized was crucial to this imaginary and entailed the construction of a social and political order founded on a multidimensional polarity. …
Nationalism, state formation and the public sphere: Eritrea 1991–96
This article attempts to situate the transition to statehood in Eritrea in the context of its time, culture, and political history. It argues that the transition is profoundly shaped by the international conjuncture within which it unfolds, as well as by the social and political experiences of the nationalist movements. The economic, social, and political aspects of the transition are highlighted with a view to illuminating their overall trajecto…
The empire of capital and the remaking of centre-periphery relations
Through most of the second half of the 20th century the idea of 'development' served as a key conceptual marker for understanding global hierarchies of wealth and power. The development initiative acquired epochal significance at the intersection of three world-historical processes: the transition in the regulation of economic activity from laissez-faire to nationally managed economies; the dismantling of colonial empires and the emergence of a T…
Imperial Fantasies, Colonial Realities: Contesting Power and Culture in Italian Eritrea
There is today widespread recognition that colonialism was ultimately about the institutionalization of an imaginary of profound social inequality anchored in relations of production and asymmetries of power that were justified by ideologies of racial superiority. The assertion of the final alterity of the colonized was crucial to this imaginary and entailed the construction of a social and political order founded on a multidimensional polarity. …
Empire and modernity: Dynastic centralization and official nationalism in late imperial Ethiopia
Conventional accounts of modern state-formation either underplay its contradictory and variegated character or neglect its international dimensions. Against these approaches, alternative theories of state-formation have emerged centred on the constitutive significance of intersocietal relations and differential temporalities. This article develops the latter approaches in relation to the Ethiopian state. Contrary to widespread assumptions of Ethi…
Culture and agency in a colonial public sphere: Religion and the anti-colonial imagination in 1940s Eritrea
Culture and agency in a colonial public sphere: religion and the anti-colonial imagination in 1940s Eritrea* Ever since the late eighteenth century, empires and nations have represented two of the most common forms through which people have imagined their relationship to each other and to the constitution and exercise of state power.While empires have been a feature of world history for millennia, they increasingly came to appear anachronistic fr…
The Spatial Ecology of Power: Long-Distance Trade and State Formation in Northeast Africa
This study examines the longue durée pattern of state formation in northeast Africa by situating its determinate dynamics within a wider constellation of social-property relations and inter-regional exchange networks. Given the social dynamics of tributary relations, increases in surplus extraction typically took the form of extensive territorial expansion rather than intensive augmentation of production, and the supply of means of coercion (weap…
Power and property: Commercialization, enclosures, and the transformation of agrarian relations in Ethiopia
This essay examines the momentous transformations in the agrarian social order of contemporary Ethiopia. It argues that the contemporary world economic, food, and energy crisis is accelerating processes of commercialization and enclosures that are profoundly altering the social and physical landscape of smallholder farming. These dynamics have taken a spatially divergent pattern that maps onto older imperial socio-spatial and cultural hierarchies…
Development by Dispossession: Terra Nullius and the Social-Ecology of New Enclosures in Ethiopia
One of the alarming features of the intersection of the world economic crisis with the global food and energy crises has been the tidal wave of large-scale land acquisitions it has unleashed. By enclosing the village commons and extinguishing the customary rights of smallholders, these land grabs are accelerating trends toward large-scale industrial farming and tenure rearrangements favoring international agribusiness. This article situates these…
People, Power, and Land: New Enclosures on a Global Scale
A global land rush is aggressively underway. It is reinventing frontier narratives wherever farmland, rangeland, and forestland appear 'underutilized,' particularly in the Global South. Though the means and motives of these acquisitions are diverse, the lens of 'new enclosures' lends itself to focusing on their similarities. New enclosures surpass the enclosures of bygone centuries in scale and speed and in the plethora of resources they reach. S…
Post-Colonial Africa and the World Economy: The Long Waves of Uneven Development
The aim of this article is to examine the interactive dynamics of "Africa" and the "world economy" over the past half century. By relating the overarching developmental trajectory of the continent to the long-wave rhythms of the world economy, the article identifies three relatively articulated periods in the political economy of postcolonial Africa. The first, from circa 1960 to the late 1970s, was a period of state-led developmentalism enabled …
Reframing development theory: The Significance of the Idea of Uneven and Combined Development
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