Course annotation

Tento kurz byl vytvořen v rámci projektu ESF II projekt Západočeské univerzity v Plzni v roce 2020. 

Annotation 

The course builds on key theoretical subjects dealing with development and globalization and it is focused on already known issues in a narrower regional perspective. It gives a general introduction to the African continent and its contemporary problems, it is focused on the historical and political evolution and an analysis of its societies and diversity. This course will introduce the students to the history, politics and society of Africa since independence. It thus offers an interdisciplinary look at various themes of African politics and society including issues of democratization, dictatorship, socialism, capitalism, international trade, health care, education, etc.

Target group 

The course is available for students of Development and Globalization MA program.  

Time frame

4+2+2

Students should be able to read, write, and communicate fluently in English. 

Short bio of the instructor:

Jan Záhořík is an Africanist/social scientist specialized in the history and politics of the Horn of Africa. He is an associate professor of modern history, and his research focus includes modern and contemporary history and politics of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa; relations between former Czechoslovakia and Africa; mobility and migration; European-African relations; Cold War in Africa; conflicts in Africa; socio-economic development in Africa (with particular focus on Ethiopia and East Africa); terrorism and security

Since 2006 Jan Záhořík has conducted research during multiple stays (25 in total) in Ethiopia ranging from 2 weeks to 6 months; minor research or academic stays include Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, Morocco.

Major recent publications include the following:

BOOKS:

Bach, J-N.; Fantini, E.; Ferras, P.; Abbink, J.; Ancel, s.; Záhořík, J. et al. (2021): Routledge Handbook on the Horn of Africa. New York: Routledge (forthcoming).

Záhořík, J. (2019): Inequalities and Conflicts in Modern and Contemporary African History. A Comparative Perspective. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Záhořík, J.; Piknerová, L. (eds., 2018): Colonialism on the Margins of Africa. New York: Routledge.

Křížek, D.; Záhořík, J. (eds., 2017): Beyond Arab Spring in North Africa. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Ylönen, A.; Záhořík, J .(eds., 2017): The Horn of Africa since the 1960s: Local and International Politics Intertwined. New York: Routledge.

Záhořík, J. (2012): Ohniska napětí v postkoloniální Africe. [Seeds of Tensions in Postcolonial Africa]. Praha: Karolinum.

Záhořík, J. (2010): Subsaharská Afrika a světové mocnosti v éře globalizace. [Sub-Saharan Africa and Word powers in the era of globalization]. Praha: NLN.

CHAPTERS:

Záhořík, J. (2018): Ethiopia and the Colonial Discourse. In: Jan Záhořík and Linda Piknerová (eds.): Colonialism on the Margins of Africa. New York: Routledge.

Záhořík, J. (2017): External Factors and Their Impact on Internal Political Dynamics in Ethiopia. In: Aleksi Ylönen and Jan Záhořík (eds.): The Horn of Africa since the 1960s. Local and International Politics Intertwined. New York: Routledge.

Záhořík, J. (2016): Czech sources on the modern and contemporary history of Africa. In Rubinkowska, H. (ed.): African Studies. Forging New Perspectives and Directions. Warsaw : ELIPSA Publishing House, 284- 291.

Záhořík, J. (2013): Ethnicity and Regime Change in Ethiopia. In: Amutabi, M. and S. Nasong‘o (eds.): Succession Politics and Regime Change in Africa: Five Decades of Misrule. London and New York: Routledge, 59-72.

ARTICLES:

Maxwell, A.; Turner, M.; Záhořík, J. (2021 – in print): The Nation versus the “Not-Quite-Nation”: A Semantic Approach to Nationalism and its Terminology. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism.

Záhořík, J. (2021 – in print): Shifting Between Pragmatism and Ideology: Relations Between Czechoslovakia and Ethiopia under Haile Selassie in the Cold War, ca. 1955-1978. Journal of Cold War Studies.

Šiška, J.; Yirgashewa, A.; Beadle-Brown, J.; Záhořík, J. (2019): Role of resource centres in facilitating inclusive education: experience from Ethiopia. Disability & Society, 2019.

Záhořík, J. (2018): Inherited Inequalities and Uneasy Transformation: Socioeconomic and ethnopolitical Pitfalls of current crisis in Ethiopia. Archiv Orientální. Journal of African and Asian Studies 86/3: 357-415. Záhořík, J. (2017): Reconsidering Ethiopia’s ethnic politics in the light of the Addis Ababa Master Plan and anti-governmental protests. Journal of the Middle East and Africa 8/3.

Záhořík, J. (2017): Czechoslovakia and Congo under Mobutu, 1965-1980. Canadian Journal of History 65/2: 290-310.

Seifu, Y.; Záhořík, J. (2017): Jimma Town: Foundation and Early Growth from ca. 1830 to 1936. Ethnologia Actualis 17/2: 46-63.

Záhořík, J. (2014): Ethiopia’s Hegemony in the Horn of Africa: Internal Tensions and External Challenges before and after Meles Zenawi. Journal of the Middle East and Africa 5/1.

Záhořík, J.; Dvořáček, J. (2014): Czech Travelers, Entrepreneurs and Advisors in Ethiopia, 1918- 1937. Journal of Ethiopian Studies 2014/1.