Prof. Asafa Jalata

Department of Sociology

University of Tennessee, USA

Email: Ajalata@utk.edu

Qualifications

1990  Ph.D., State University of New York

1988  M.A., State University of New York

1985  M.S., University of California

1978  B.S., Addis Ababa University

Publications (selected)

1. Phases of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization: From Christopher Columbus to Osama bin Laden, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2015.
2. “Theorizing Oromummaa,” The Journal of Oromo Studies.
3. “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.
4. “Gadaa as the Fountain of Oromummaaa and the Theoretical Base of Oromo Liberation,” with Harwood Schaffer, Journal of Oromo Studies.
5. “Promoting and Developing Oromummaa,” The Journal of Pan-African Studies Vol. 6, no. 8: 120-145.
6. “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.
7. “The Impacts of English Colonial Terrorism and Genocide on Indigenous/Black Australians,” Sage Open, July-September, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1-12.
8. “Indigenous Peoples and the Capitalist World System: Researching, Knowing and Promoting Social Justice,” Sociology Mind, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 156-178.
9. “Colonial Terrorism, Global Capitalism and African Underdevelopment: 500 Years of Crimes against African Peoples,” The Journal of Pan-African Studies, Vol. 5, No. 9, March 1-43.
10. “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.
11. “Gadaa (Oromo Democracy): An Example of Classical African Civilization,” The Journal of Pan-African Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, March 2012, pp. 126-152.
12. “My Conversation with Sisai Ibssa,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, Vol.      18, No. 1, July, Special Issue, pp. 81-107.
13. “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.
14. “Terrorism from Above and Below in the Age of Globalization,” Sociology Mind, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-15.
15. “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.
16. “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.
17. The Macha-Tulama Association: Its Importance in Oromo History, with Mohammed Hassen. Knoxville: UTK Printing Press.
18. Social Justice and the University: Globalization, Human Rights and the Future of Democracy. Edited with Jon Shefner, Bobby Jones, and Harry Dams. London: Palgrave.
19. Fighting against the Injustice of the State and Globalization: Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan), reprinted in Paperback.
20. “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.
21. “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, pp. 23-66.