Author: Mengesha Robso
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783346347046
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Sociology - Gender Studies, course: Gender Equality, language: English, abstract: This study has been conducted on Guji Oromo peoples of Oromia Regional State, Addis Ababa and in south Ethiopia. It is true that many of the Ethiopian peoples culture and women history and the roles of society on women issues were not deeply studied and recorded in the history of the country. Among such peoples, Guji is the one which its peoples and gada system history had not yet been touched. Therefore, interest in this topic is originated from my intention to connect the Guji peoples', women's rigjts snd figure women's history and the roles of gada system and its unreserved works of promoting women rights through Siqqee system and other related activities in the study area are also briefly discussed and elaborated in an illustrative manner. Generally, the Guji Oromo women's' socio-cultural, politico-economical rights, status and positions in their traditional Gada system and women's difficulties in times of East Guji periodical drought is also discussed. I hope this important theme will serve as a guide for further researchs and investigations, and even to whom a person needs to know about the Guji people and women's rights, position, status and power in their community and their traditional Gäda system treatments towards them.
Author: Peter Gill
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191614319
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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The terrible 1984 famine in Ethiopia focused the world's attention on the country and the issue of aid as never before. Anyone over the age of 30 remembers something of the events - if not the original TV pictures, then Band Aid and Live Aid, Geldof and Bono. Peter Gill was the first journalist to reach the epicentre of the famine and one of the TV reporters who brought the tragedy to light. This book is the story of what happened to Ethiopia in the 25 years following Live Aid: the place, the people, the westerners who have tried to help, and the wider multinational aid business that has come into being. We saved countless lives in the beginning and continued to save them now, but have we done much else to transform the lives of Ethiopia's poor and set them on a 'development' course that will enable the country to do without us?
Author: Wendy James
Publisher: James Currey
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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This new volume examines the major changes effected by the socialist regime from the revolution of 1974 to its overthrow in 1991, and then into the current period which has been marked by moves towards local democracy and political devolution. North America: Ohio U Press; Ethiopia: Addis Ababa U Press
Author: Alula Pankhurst
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719035371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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This book is the inside story of the Ethiopian resettlement programme, carried out in the mid-1980s by the Ethiopian government amid fierce international controversy. It relies on the views of the settlers themselves, and is based on an in-depth study carried out by an anthropologist who lived in a resettlement village. Alula Pankhurst dispels current myths about resettlement; while showing the importance of famine and coercion, he highlights social factors in the mosaic of settlers' motivation. He documents the attempt to institute a collectivist model of agriculture and analyses the reasons for its failure. He also examines the effects of Ethiopia's recent economic liberalisation and the impact of aid agencies. The book addresses an increasing Third World phenomenon: state organised relocation. It is a major contribution to the literature on mass-migration and on refugees. By focusing on the interaction between people and the state, it also reassesses a fundamental development problem: the gulf between local and national priorities. Accessible and thought-provoking, Resettlement and famine in Ethiopia will be of interest to anthropologists, students of development studies, and practitioners, and all those concerned by famine, forced migration and socialist attempts to transform societies.
Author: Asmarom Legesse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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"This book reveals the many creative solutions an African society found for problems that people encounter when they try to establish a democratic system of governing their affairs. In much of what has been written about Africa ... Little is ever shown of indigenous African democratic systems, under which there is distribution of authority and responsibility across various strata of society, and where warriors are subordinated to deliberative assemblies, customary laws are revised periodically by a national convention, and elected leaders are limited to a single eight-year terms of office and subjected to public review in the middle of their term. All these ideals and more are enshrined in the five-century old constitution of the Oromo of Ethiopia, which is the subject matter of this book. In this book, Legesse brings into sharp focus the polycephalous or "multi-headed" system of government of the Oromo, which is based on clearly defined division of labor and checks and balances between different institutions. Revealing the inherent dynamism and sophistication of this indigenous African political system, Legasse also shows in clear and lucid language that the system has had a long and distinguished history, during which the institutions changed by deliberate legislation, and evolved and adapted with time."--Amazon.com.
Author: Minale Adugna
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Research on: the status of women in the history of warfare in Ethiopia, the social attitude towards women's involvement and how the women see war, the role of women in military mobilization, inciting and ending wars, the war-time contribution of women at the home front and the impact of war on the life of women in the terms of the division of labour, social, economic and political privileges.
Author: Asmarom Legesse
Publisher: New York : Free Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Author: Robin Luckham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Focusses on the impacts of conflicts on poverty, inequality, population displacement, gender relations, health, etc. during the 20th century.
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004250395
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Trapped inside lorries or huddled aboard unseaworthy boats, irregular African migrants make for troubling headlines in western media, fueling fever pitch fears of an impending "African exodus" to Europe. Despite the increasing, albeit sensational, attention irregular migration attracts on both sides of the Mediterranean, little is known about what shapes and influences the lives of these Africans before, during, and after their “migratory projects.” By privileging migrants' narratives and drawing on evidence-based field research from different disciplinary backgrounds, the volume demystifies and dislodges many common assumptions about the human ecology of irregular African migration to Europe, arguably one of the most widely debated, yet least understood, phenomenon of our time.
Author: Henrike Paetz
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3656953414
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 137
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Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Gender Studies, grade: Excellent (A) (Sehr gut), Vienna University of Technology (Institut für Managementwissenschaften), course: Master of Business Administration - Entrepreneurship & Innovation, language: English, abstract: In the era of user-centered design several scholars have started to take a closer look at gender as one of the decisive factors for successful innovation. While technology, and specifically information technology (IT), has become the backbone of almost all industries and a key driver for innovation, women are still largely absent from these fields. They are heavily underrepresented as technology designers and neglected as autonomous users with individual needs. This thesis sets out to demonstrate the importance of gender for technology design; it analyzes the reasons for the lack of women in technology using a feminist perspective, and proposes a number of possible approaches how gender awareness could be increased in IT with a special focus on the organizational aspects of business software design. The findings are based on an in-depth literature review and are validated by means of several case studies of female IT professionals in the global software industry. The demographic situation in the 21st century as well as the respective literature and research provide clear evidence of the social and economic benefits of increasing the ‘female factor’ in technology design. Women are a key – and heavily underused - driver for innovation, organizational performance and financial success in most companies. Yet, when analyzing the gendered nature of technology it became clear that its inherent masculinity has to a large extent been responsible for the absence and marginalization of women from IT until today. Current approaches to overcome the ‘women-technology-dilemma’ are often either seeking to help women adapt to the male norm or are over-emphasizing feminine connotated values for technology design. The findings in this thesis underline the social constructivist perspective that neither technology nor gender can be taken as fixed and given but are cultural processes subject to negotiations, contestations and transformation. As a consequence, one of the most important prerequisites for the software industry to make sure the results of their application design fit with the needs of a variety of stakeholders, including female users, is the establishment of a gender aware organizational mindset and a respective design framework using gender as a ‘lens’ and apply it every time new applications are being planned and implemented.
