Browsing by Author "Tarekegn, Misrak"

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    Alienation in Three Amharic Novels: Fik'ir Iskä Mäk'abir, Adäfris and Kadmas Bašagär
    (Addis Ababa University, 2002-06) Tarekegn, Misrak; Kifle, Yimer (PhD)
    The aim of this thesis, "Alienation in three Amharic novels: Fik'ir iskä Mäk'abir, Adäfris and Kadmas Bašagär,'' is to explore the way human nature and social relationship are treated in the selected three novels from the perspective of Marx’s theory of alienation. By way of investigating the notion of alienation this research exposes how the consciousness of an individual formulates his/her world view that is the overall perception of one’s social position. In this regard an attempt has been made to show how the past controls the present and the extent of human freedom. In order to reveal these points the different aspects of alienation are displayed with subtitles such as, alienation of man from man, alienation from self, dereified consciousness, education and alienation and intellectual alienation. This study has five chapters. The introduction explains why the topic is chosen. It also shows the aim, method, scope and significance of the research. The second chapter reviews available studies that have relations with the research topic. This includes both published and unpublished works. In this chapter the framework of analysis is also presented, beginning from the etymology of the term alienation, its intellectual development, Marx’s concept of alienation and the application of the notion after him.
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    Challenges and Opportunities of Access and Mobility in Addis Ababa: the Case of people with Motor and Visual Impairments
    (Addis Ababa University, 2006-06) Tarekegn, Misrak; Abeje, Wondimu (PhD)
    Urban areas are places where multitudes of diversified group of people inhabit. Among these groups of people are found people with different impainments. Urban life requires the provision of di fferent kinds of arrangements to satisfy the different needs of these diversified residents. However, when different activities and arrangements are organized in the urban built envirolUnent, urban plrumers often overlook the specialized urban plalUling needs of people with di ffe rent impairments making life in the urban built enviromnent challenging for this sector of the urban society. Provisions in terms of accessible buildings, street designs and transport system that facilitate mobility are of fundamental importance to disabled persons in order to enjoy quality life. The principal aim of this paper is to find out the kind and extent of problems that people with motor and people with visual impairments encounter when trying to use services rendered in different buildings, while moving in the streets for various purposes and while using di fferent modes of public transp011. It also tries to find out why different goverlUllent offices fail to notice di sability issues in the areas of buildings and street design and public transport. The paper also aims to provide recommendations that can help different stakeholders to start addressing the problems that people with di sability face in the urban built enviromnent. The study focuses on people with motor impairments and the visually impaired and attempts to find out the specialized needs in the area of urban policies specifically buildings design, street envirolUnent and the transport system through a survey research. A total of 200 people with different impairments filled the questionnaires prepared, and focus group discussions were held to supplement the information obtained. Govermnent offices participated in filling the questionnaires and personal observation was undertaken to verify the responses obtained.