ASAFA JALATA is Professor of Sociology and Global and Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is a leading scholar on the politics and societies of Oromia, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa and international issues, and he is a world-renowned expert on Oromo studies. Furthermore, Jalata, as a leading social scientist in the fields of indigenous and human rights studies, Africana and global studies, and nationalism and terrorism studies, is engaged in identifying and explaining the chains of historical and political economic forces that shape racial inequality, development, underdevelopment, and social/national movements on local, regional, and global levels. Jalata has published and edited eight books including Contending Nationalisms of Oromia and Ethiopia: Struggling for Statehood, Sovereignty, and Multinational Democracy (2010), Oromummaa: Oromo Culture, Identity and Nationalism (2007), Oromia and Ethiopia:State Formation and Ethnonational Conflict (2005 [1993]), and Fighting Against the Injustice of the State and Globalization: Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements (2011 [2001]). He has also published more than five dozens of refereed articles and book chapters. His refereed articles have appeared in national, regional or continental, and international journals such as The Journal of Oromo Studies, Horn of Africa, The Northeast Journal of African Studies, The African Studies Review, The Journal of Pan African Studies, The International Journal of Comparative Sociology, The Journal of Black Studies, Vital Issues: The Journal of African American Speeches, Social Justice, Sociology Mind, Sociologists Without Border/Sociologos Sin Fronteras, Humanity and Society, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, The Journal of Political and Military Sociology, and Nations and Nationalism. Jalata is currently engaged in writing a book titled Faces of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization: From Christopher Columbus to Osama bin Laden.
Oromummaa
Promoting and Developing Oromummaa, The Oromo Community Organization, Washington, DC (2012)
As any concept, Oromummaa has different meanings on conventional, theoretical, and political, and ideological levels....
CELEBRATING OROMO HEROISM AND COMMEMORATING THE OROMO MARYTRS’ DAY (Guyya Gootota Oromiyaa), The Oromo Community of Atlanta, Georgia (2010)
Oromo history demonstrates that the Oromo people had been heroic when they were organized under...
OROMUMMAA: NATIONAL IDENTITY AND POLITICS OF LIBERATION, The OLF Eastern US Regional Mid-Year Conference (2010)
Local and fragmented Oromummaa and national Oromummaa are interconnected, but not necessarily one and the...
WHAT IS NEXT FOR THE OROMO PEOPLE?, 4th Annual International Conference on Human Rights (2010)
Thank you for inviting me to give a talk on the future of the Oromo...
OROMO PEOPLEHOOD: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL OVERVIEW (2010)
The study of the historical, cultural, religious, linguistic, geographical and civilizational foundations of Oromo society...
Terrorism
The Impacts of Terrorism and Capitalist Incorporation on Indigenous Americans, Journal of World - Systems Research (2013)
This article demonstrates the connections between terrorism , colonial state formation, and the development of...
European Colonial Terrorism and the Incorporation of Africa into the Capitalist World System, Athens Institute For Education and Research (ATINER) (2011)
This article critically explores the essence and characters of European colonial terrorism and its main...
The Impacts of European Colonial Terrorism on Africans, Southeastern Regional Seminar in African Studies (2010)
This article critically explores the essence and characters of European colonial terrorism and its main...
The Tigrayan-led the Ethiopian State, Repression, Terrorism, and Gross Human Rights Violations in Oromia and Ethiopia, Horn of Africa (2010)
The Tigrayan-led Ethiopian government has engaged in state terrorism and genocide with the support of...
FACES OF TERRORISM IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION: TERRORISM FROM ABOVE AND BELOW, the Oak Ridge Institute for Continued Learning Philosophical Society (2008)
This paper explains how the intensification of globalization as the modern world system with its...
Human Rights
Indigenous Peoples in the Capitalist World System: Researching, Knowing, and Promoting Social Justice (2011)
The paper critically examines how indigenous peoples all over the world have been terrorized, exterminated,...
The Impacts of Capitalist Incorporation and Terrorism on Indigenous Americans, University of California, Riverside (2011)
This article critically explores the essence of colonial terrorism and its consequences on the indigenous...
Published Articles
Indigenous Peoples and the Capitalist World System: Researching, Knowing, and Promoting Social Justice, Sociology Mind (2013)
This paper explores the major consequences of the expansion of the European-dominated capitalist world system,...
Colonial Terrorism, Global Capitalism and African Underdevelopment: 500 Years of Crimes Against African Peoples, The Journal of Pan-African Studies (2013)
This article critically explores the essence and characters of European colonial terrorism and its main...
Copyright ©2013, American Sociological Association, Volume XIX, Number 1, Pages 130 - 152, ISSN 1076 - 156X The Impacts of Terrorism and Capitalist Incorporation on Indigenous Americans, Journal of World - Systems Research (2013)
This article demonstrates the connections between terrorism, colonial state formation, and the development of the...
Gadaa (Oromo Democracy): An Example of Classical African Civilization, Journal of Pan-African Studies (2012)
The paper briefly introduces and explains the essence of indigenous Oromo democracy and its main...
The Oromo in Exile: Creating Knowledge and Promoting Social Justice, Societies/Sociologists Without Borders/Sociologos Sin Fronteras (2011)
This paper explains how some Oromos who were forced to leave their country, Oromia, by...
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Oromo Studies
The Struggle For Knowledge: The Case of Emergent Oromo Studies, African Studies Review (1996)
Taking the Oromo as historical actors, the emergent Oromo studies identify some deficiencies of "Ethiopian...
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THE OROMO: TOWARD A PSYCHOLOGY OF LIBERATION AND OROMO EMPOWERMENT, Paper Presented at the Oromo Community Meeting of the United Kingdom, London (2012)
Today the Oromo people are facing a monumental national crisis that requires urgent recognition and...