Worldmaking After Empire
{{Short description|2019 non-fiction book by Adom Getachew}}
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{{Infobox book
| author = Adom Getachew
| isbn = 978-0-691-17915-5
| pub_date = February 5, 2019
| publisher = Princeton University Press
| awards = {{plainlist|
- ASA Best Book Prize (2020)
- J. David Greenstone Book Prize (2020)
}}
}}
Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination is a 2019 non-fiction book about decolonization by Adom Getachew.
Reception
= Reviews =
Worldmaking After Empire has been reviewed in various academic journals, including Capital & Class,{{Cite journal |last=Copley |first=Jack |date=December 2020 |title=Book Review: Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination by Adom Getachew |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0309816820974483a |journal=Capital & Class |language=en |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=635–637 |doi=10.1177/0309816820974483a |issn=0309-8168}} Constellations,{{Cite journal |last=Hausteiner |first=Eva Marlene |date=June 2021 |title=AdomGetachew & Worldmaking after empire: the rise and fall of self-determination. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2019 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8675.12573 |journal=Constellations |language=en |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=283–285 |doi=10.1111/1467-8675.12573 |issn=1351-0487}} Contemporary Political Theory,{{Cite journal |last=Rose |first=Michelle K. L. |date=December 2022 |title=Worldmaking after empire: The rise and fall of self-determination: Adom Getachew Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2019, xii + 276 pp., ISBN: 978-0-691-179155 |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1057/s41296-021-00522-9 |journal=Contemporary Political Theory |language=en |volume=21 |issue=S4 |pages=170–174 |doi=10.1057/s41296-021-00522-9 |issn=1470-8914}} Ethics & International Affairs,{{Cite journal |last=Chan |first=Shuk Ying |date=2019 |title=Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, Adom Getachew (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019), 288 pp., $35 cloth, $35 eBook. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S089267941900025X/type/journal_article |journal=Ethics & International Affairs |language=en |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=375–377 |doi=10.1017/S089267941900025X |issn=0892-6794}} History,{{Cite journal |last=Gerits |first=Frank |date=July 2020 |title=Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. Edited by Adom Getachew. Princeton University Press. 2019. xii + 271pp. £27.00. |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-229X.12993 |url-status=live |journal=History |language=en |volume=105 |issue=366 |pages=540–542 |doi=10.1111/1468-229X.12993 |hdl=1874/410304 |issn=0018-2648 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240101224249/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-229X.12993 |archive-date=January 1, 2024 |access-date=July 14, 2024|hdl-access=free }} The Journal of Development Studies,{{Cite journal |last=Nisancioglu |first=Kerem |date=2021-11-02 |title=Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination: By Adom Getachew Oxford : Princeton University Press , 2020, 288 pp., £30 (hardback), £20 (paperback), ISBN: 9780691202341 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220388.2021.1956154 |journal=The Journal of Development Studies |language=en |volume=57 |issue=11 |pages=1975–1977 |doi=10.1080/00220388.2021.1956154 |issn=0022-0388}} New West Indian Guide,{{Cite journal |last=Meeks |first=Brian |date=2022-09-22 |title=Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination , by Adom Getachew |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/96/3-4/article-p365_18.xml |url-status=live |journal=New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids |volume=96 |issue=3–4 |pages=365–366 |doi=10.1163/22134360-09603015 |issn=1382-2373 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240712124744/https://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/96/3-4/article-p365_18.xml |archive-date=July 12, 2024 |access-date=July 14, 2024|doi-access=free }} Perspectives on Politics,{{Cite journal |last=Hanchard |first=Michael |date=December 2019 |title=Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. By Adom Getachew. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 288p. $35.00 cloth. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1537592719003682/type/journal_article |journal=Perspectives on Politics |language=en |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=1115–1117 |doi=10.1017/S1537592719003682 |issn=1537-5927}} and the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography,{{Cite journal |last=Sidaway |first=James D. |date=May 2021 |title=Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination . AdomGetachew. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, USA, 2019, pp. xii + 271. ISBN 978-0-691-17915-5 (hbk). |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sjtg.12374 |journal=Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography |language=en |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=367–371 |doi=10.1111/sjtg.12374 |issn=0129-7619}}
= Awards and honors =
In 2020, Foreign Affairs named Worldmaking after Empire one of the best books of the year.{{Cite news |date=2020-12-04 |title=The Best of Books 2020 |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/lists/2020-12-04/best-books-2020 |access-date=2024-07-14 |work=Foreign Affairs |language=en-US |issn=0015-7120 |archive-date=April 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240407045337/https://www.foreignaffairs.com/lists/2020-12-04/best-books-2020 |url-status=live }}