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Autochthony, ethnicity, indigeneity and nationalism: Time-honouring and state-oriented modes of rooting individual-territory-group triads in a globalizing world
- O. Zenker
- Sociology
- 1 March 2011
Recently, proliferating discourses on autochthony and indigeneity have been noted as the flip-side of globalization. Against this backdrop, this article synthesizes insights from studies of… Expand
New Law against an Old State: Land Restitution as a Transition to Justice in Post-Apartheid South Africa?
- O. Zenker
- Sociology
- 1 May 2014
type="main"> Based on a case study of the so-called ‘Kafferskraal’ land claim, this article scrutinizes the ongoing land restitution process in post-apartheid South Africa with regard to its capacity… Expand
Transitional Justice, States of Emergency and Business as Usual in Sierra Leone
type="main"> This article situates the establishment of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in the wider context of the country's transitional period between 1999 and 2004. During this pivotal period,… Expand
Transition and Justice: An Introduction
type="main"> Since the end of the Cold War, political new beginnings have increasingly been linked to questions of transitional justice. The contributions to this collection examine a series of cases… Expand
The Formation and Mobilization of Collective Identities in Situations of Conflict and Integration
- B. Donahoe, John R. Eidson, +5 authors O. Zenker
- Sociology
- 2009
The authors propose a framework for the comparative analysis of collective identities and corresponding processes of identification. “Collective identities” are defined as representations containing… Expand
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Language matters : reflexive notes on representing the Irish language revival in Catholic West Belfast
- O. Zenker
- Sociology
- 2010
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Between the lines: Republicanism, dissenters and the politics of meta-trauma in the Northern Irish conflict.
- O. Zenker
- Sociology, Medicine
- Social science & medicine
- 1 July 2010
Based on in-depth life story interviews contextualised by fourteen months of fieldwork in 2003-2004 and using a person-centered ethnographic approach, this article provides a case study of an… Expand
Autochthony and activism among contemporary Irish nationalists in Northern Ireland, or: if "civic" nationalists are "ethno"-cultural revivalists, what remains of the civic/ethnic divide?
- O. Zenker
- Sociology
- 1 October 2009
. This article argues for dissolving the civic–ethnic dichotomy into several analytical dimensions and suggests ‘autochthony’ and ‘activism’ as two such alternatives. It does so by first presenting a… Expand
South African Land Restitution, White Claimants and the Fateful Frontier of Former KwaNdebele*
- O. Zenker
- Sociology
- 26 August 2015
South African land restitution, through which the post-apartheid state compensates victims of racial land dispossession, has been intimately linked to former homelands: prototypical rural claims are… Expand
De-judicialization, Outsourced Review and All-Too-Flexible Bureaucracies in South African Land Restitution
- O. Zenker
- Political Science
- 1 March 2015
This article takes as its starting point a peculiar land claim within the ongoing South African land restitution process – more specifically, the legal and administrative technicalities that allowed… Expand
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