Jacob Wiebel
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Jacob Wiebel is a historian of modern Africa. His work is focused on East Africa and the Horn, where his particular interests concern the historical making, dynamics and memories of collective violence; the rise of modern statehood with its associated change in relationships, ideologies and practices of political authority; and the political ecology of land control and usage.
Research Interest
Research Interests include Dynamics, effects and memories of collective violence, Modern African history, State-society relations in the Ethiopian region.
Publications
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Wiebel, Jacob (2015). “Let the Red Terror Intensify†Political Violence, Governance and Society in Urban Ethiopia, 1976–78. International Journal of African Historical Studies 48(1): 13-30.
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Wiebel, Jacob (2017). The Ethiopian Red Terror. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia. Oxford University Press.
