A joint initiative between the University of Bergen
and CMI – Chr. Michelsen Institute
An insight into African intellectuals' visions of another global order, beyond that of Western Imperialism.
Adom Getachew is Professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. In this seminar, Getachew will present her book Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination.
In her book, she argues that the struggle for self-determination during decolonisation was not merely about nation-building, but about worldmaking. She provides us with insight into African intellectuals’ visions of another global order, beyond that of Western Imperialism.
The seminar will be moderated by Thorvald Gran, professor emeritus in political science (University of Bergen).
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Adom Getachew is a political theorist with research interests in the history of political thought, theories of race and empire, and postcolonial political theory. Her work focuses on the intellectual and political histories of Africa and the Caribbean.
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Thorvald Gran is professor emeritus in political science at UiB. He is also guest researcher at University of South East Norway, Bakkenteigen. He has recently published a new book, "ANC in power. Barriers to implementation of land reform in Western South Africa. 1990-2006."
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Adom Getachew is a political theorist with research interests in the history of political thought, theories of race and empire, and postcolonial political theory. Her work focuses on the intellectual and political histories of Africa and the Caribbean.
She is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019) and co-editor, with Jennifer Pitts, of W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought (2022). She is currently working on a second book on the intellectual origins and political practices of Garveyism—the black nationalist/pan-African movement, which had its height in the 1920s. Her public writing has appeared in Dissent, Foreign Affairs, the London Review of Books, the Nation, the New York Review of Books, and the New York Times.
Thorvald Gran is professor emeritus in political science at UiB. He is also guest researcher at University of South East Norway, Bakkenteigen. He has recently published a new book, "ANC in power. Barriers to implementation of land reform in Western South Africa. 1990-2006."
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