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Asafa Jalata

Asafa Jalata

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ADDRESS
The University of Tennessee | 912C McClung Tower | Knoxville, TN 37996-0490
Website
https://asafajalata.utk.edu/
Phone
865-974-7027

Asafa Jalata

Professor

Editor-in-Chief, Sociology Mind

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., 1990, State University of New York at Binghamton

Interest Area

Political Economy, Global Studies/World-Systems, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Development, Globalization and Social Movements, Terrorism Studies, Human Rights, and Africana Studies.

Courses

  • Global Studies/the Modern World System
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Africana Studies
  • Comparative Poverty and Development
  • Black Communities in Urban America
  • Comparative Studies in African and African American Societies
  • Human Rights and the Capitalist World System
  • Sociology of Development
  • Advanced Studies in the Political Economy of Race and Ethnicity
  • The Civil Rights Movement
  • Advanced Studies in Globalization and Social Movements

Research

ASAFA JALATA is the Betty Lynn Hendrickson Professor and Professor of Sociology and Global and Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. As a leading social scientist in the fields of indigenous and human rights investigations, critical race studies, Africana and global studies, and nationalism and terrorism studies, Professor Jalata has engaged in studying and explaining the chains of cultural, historical, and political-economic forces of the capitalist world system that have shaped racial inequality, development, underdevelopment, terrorism, and social movements on local, regional, and global levels. He is a worldwide renowned scholar in Oromo studies and these fields. Professor Jalata has published and edited fifteen books, eighteen book chapters, eight dozen refereed articles in national, regional, and global refereed journals, and several public journal articles. Professor Jalata’s most recent books include The Oromo Movement and Imperial Politics: Ideology and Culture in Oromia and Ethiopia (New York: Lexington Books 2021/2022), Cultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia (London: Routledge, 2019/2020), Phases of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization: From Christopher Columbus to Osama bin Laden, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016/2017), and Contending Nationalisms of Oromia and Ethiopia: Struggling for Statehood, Sovereignty and Multinational Democracy (Global Academic Publishing of Binghamton University, 2010).
For further information, see http://works.bepress.com/asafa_jalata/

 

Publications

  • 2024 Baro Tumsa: The Principal Architect of the Oromo Liberation Front, (New York:algrave).
  • 2024  “The Tulama and Wallo are Oromo, Not Habasha,” Current Progress in Arts and Social Studies Research Vol. 2, edited by Bakare Kazeem Kayode, London: BP International, pp. 67-87.
  • 2024 “The Necessity of the Rebirth of Sovereign and Democratic Oromia,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, (forthcoming).
  • 2023 “Race and Racism in the Ethiopian Context,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, Volume 28, Number2,pp. 85-122.
  • 2023 “The Oromo Movement for Gadaa/SiiqqeeRenaissance in the 21st Century,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, pp. 1-27.
  • 2023 “Baro Tumsa’s Contributions to the Oromo National Movement,” Social  Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, pp. 1-27.
  • 2023 “The Neo-Nafxanya Government of Abiy Ahmed, Terrorism, and Gross Human Rights Violations in Oromia and Ethiopia.” Sociology Mind, 13, 63-83. https://www.scirp.org/pdf/sm_2023022014283794.pdf
  • 2023  “Characterization of Abiy-led Ethiopian Ruling Elites as Oromummaa,” Addis Standard. https://addisstandard.com/op-ed-characterization-of-abiy-led-ethiopian-ruling-elites-as-oromummaa-government/
  • 2023  “Africa is getting renewed attention from Washington — and some African states are courting African Americans,” The Conversation, May 25, 2023, https://theconversation.com/africa-is-getting-renewed-attention-from-washington-and-some-african-states-are-courting-african-americans-203882
  • 2023  “The Missing Factor in Critical Global Studies: Indigenous Knowledge,” Planetary Sociology: Beyond the Entanglement of Identity and Social Structure, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, edited by Harry F. Dahms, Emerald Publishing Limited Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley, pp 187-208.
  • 2023 “Baro Tumsa’s Contributions to the Oromo National Movement,” Social  Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, pp. 1-27.
  • 2023 “The Neo-Nafxanya Government of Abiy Ahmed, Terrorism, and Gross Human Rights Violations in Oromia and Ethiopia.” Sociology Mind, 13, 63-83. https://www.scirp.org/pdf/sm_2023022014283794.pdf
  • 2021 “Review Essay: Are the Tulama and Wallo Oromo Habasha?Sociology Mind, Vol.11 No.4, October 2021, pp.1-28.
  • 2020/2022 The Oromo Movement and Imperial Politics: Ideology and Culture in Oromia and Ethiopia. New York: Lexington Books. Published in paperback (2022)
  • 2019/2020 Cultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia. London: Routledge. Published in paperback.
  • 2018/2019 “The Oromo Movement: The Effects of Globalization and Terrorism on Oromia and Ethiopia,” Social Justice: A journal of crime, conflict & world order, Vol. 44, No. 4, Issue 150, pp. 83-105 (Published in 2019).
  • 2020 “The Need for Establishing Oromo National Civic Institutions; The Cases of Global Gumii Oromia and Oromia Global Forum.” East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, December, Volume 5 (2) 1-20.
  • 2019 “The Qerroo/Qarree peaceful movement for national self-determination and multinational Confederal or federal democracy.” Journal of Oromo Studies. Volume 26.
  • 2019 “Politico-Cultural Prerequisites for Protecting the Oromo National Interest,” Sociology Mind, Vol.9 No.1, January 9: 95-113.
  • 2018/2019. “The Oromo Movement: The Effects of Globalization and Terrorism on Oromia and Ethiopia,” Social Justice: A journal of crime, conflict & world order, Vol. 44, No. 4, Issue 150, pp. 83-105 (Published in 2019).
  • 2016/2017   Phases of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization: From Christopher Columbus toOsama bin Laden, (Palgrave Macmillan, USA). Published in paperback.
  • 2016 Phases of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization: From Christopher Columbus to Osama bin Laden, (Palgrave Macmillan, USA.)
  • 2016 “The Oromo National Movement and Gross Human Rights Violations in the Age of Globalization,” European Scientific Journal, Vol. 12, Number 5: 177-204.
  • 2015 “Theorizing Modern Society as an Alternative Reality: How Critical Theory and Indigenous Critiques of Globalization Must Learn from Each Other,” with Harry F. Dahms in Globalization, Critique, and Social Theory: Diagnoses and Challenges: Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Volume 33, 75-133.
  • 2015 “Theorizing Oromummaa” The Journal of Oromo Studies, Vol. 22, Numbers 1 & 2, pp. 1-35.
  • 2015 “The Triple Causes of African Underdevelopment: Colonial Capitalism, State Terrorism and Racism,” International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 7(3), pp. 75-91, March.
  • 2014 Social Justice and the University: Globalization, Human Rights and the Future of Democracy. Edited with Jon Shefner, Bobby Jones, and Harry F. Dahms. London: Palgrave.
  • 2014″Promoting and Developing Oromummaa,” The Journal of Pan-African Studies Vol. 6, no.8: 120-145.
  • 2014 “Researching, Knowing and Promoting Social Justice for Indigenous Americans,”Social Justice and the University:  Globalization, Human Rights and the Future of Democracy, edited with Jon Shefner, Bobby Jones, Harry Dams. New York: Palgrave.
  • 2013 “European Colonial Terrorism and the Incorporation of Africa into the Capitalists World System,” Social Fabric Transformations: Research on International Perspective, (Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research, edited by Aaron C. Porter.
  • 2013 “The Oromo, Gadaa/Siqqee and the Liberation of Ethiopian Colonial  Subjects,” with Harwood Schaffer, AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Vol. 9, Issue 4: 277-295.
  • 2013 “The Impacts of English Colonial Terrorism and Genocide on Indigenous Black Australians,” Sage Open, July-September, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1-12.
  • 2013 “Indigenous Peoples and the Capitalist World System: Researching, Knowing and Promoting Social Justice,” Sociology Mind, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 156-178.
  • 2013 “Colonial Terrorism, Global Capitalism and African Under- development: 500 Years of Crimes Against African Peoples,” The Journal of Pan-African Studies, Vol. 5, No. 9, March 1-43.
  • 2013 “The Impacts of Terrorism and Capitalist Incorporation on Indigenous Americans,” Journal of World-Systems Research, American Sociological Association, Volume XIX, Number 1, pp. 130-152.
  • 2012 “Gadaa (Oromo Democracy): An Example of Classical Africa Civilization,” The Journal of Pan-African Studies, vol. 5, no.1, March 2012, pp. 126-152.
  • 2011 “My Conversation with Sisai Ibssa,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, Vol. 18, No. 1, July, Special Issue, pp. 81-107.
  • 2011 “The Oromo in Exile: Creating Knowledge and Promoting Social Justice,” Journal of Societies Without Borders/Sociologists Without Border/Sociologos Sin Fronteras : Human Rights & the Social Sciences 6: 1, June, 33-72.
  • 2011 “Terrorism from Above and Below in the Age of Globalization,” Sociology Mind, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-15.
  • 2011 “Imperfections in U.S. Foreign Policy toward Oromia and Ethiopia: Will The Obama Administration Introduce Change? The Journal of Pan African Studies, Vol. 4, no.3, March 2011, pp. 131-154.
  • 2011 “Oromian Urban Centers: Consequences of Spatial   Concentration of Power in Multinational Ethiopia, Journal of Oromos Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2, January 2011, pp. 39-74.