Adom Getachew is Professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. She 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.
Adom Getachew is an Ethiopian-American political scientist. She is Professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity at the University of Chicago.[1] She is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination.[2][3][4][5][6]
Adom was awarded a PhD in Political Science and African-American Studies from Yale University in 2015.[7] She was born in Ethiopia. She was raised in Ethiopia and Botswana until the age of 13, when her family moved to Arlington, Virginia, United States.[8][9][10]
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Her first book, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019), centers the work of African, African American, and Caribbean anticolonial nationalists and their efforts to challenge the global hierarchy.[11] Ultimately, she argues that legally decolonized countries face unequal legal, economic, and social integration in the international plane.[12] These stratified relationships continue to perpetrate imperial structures.
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^ "Adom Getachew | Political Science | The University of Chicago". political-science.uchicago.edu. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
^ Getachew, Adom (2019). Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. Princeton University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv3znwvg. ISBN 978-0-691-17915-5. JSTOR j.ctv3znwvg.
^ Dasgupta, Sandipto (June 1, 2020). "Review of Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire". Millennium. 48 (3): 351–359. doi:10.1177/0305829820939633. ISSN 0305-8298. S2CID 231809273.
^ Marshall, Jenna (June 1, 2020). "Postcolonial Paradoxes, Ambiguities of Self-determination and Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire". Millennium. 48 (3): 340–350. doi:10.1177/0305829820939618. ISSN 0305-8298. S2CID 225418273.
^ Gerits, Frank (2020). "Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. Edited by Adom Getachew. Princeton University Press. 2019. xii + 271pp. £27.00". History. 105 (366): 540–542. doi:10.1111/1468-229X.12993. ISSN 1468-229X. S2CID 225514242.
^ "H-Diplo Roundtable XXI-13 on Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination | H-Diplo | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
^ Ali, Zara (February 13, 2023). "Adom Getachew on Anticolonial Worldmaking of the Past and Present". Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. Retrieved June 15, 2023.
^ "H-Diplo Essay 309- Adom Getachew on Learning the Scholar's Craft | H-Diplo | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. February 2, 2021. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
^ Arrington, Rebecca P. (February 15, 2008). "Adom Getachew Named New Student Member of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors". UVA Today. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
^ Adom Getachew; Ashish Ghadiali (September 22, 2022). "World makers of the Black Atlantic". www.eurozine.com. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
^ "H-Diplo Essay 309- Adom Getachew on Learning the Scholar's Craft". issforum.org. February 2, 2021. Retrieved June 15, 2023.
^ Peebles, Tom (June 8, 2022). "The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination - Book Review". Tocqueville21. Retrieved June 14, 2023.
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