Publications of David O'Kane

Journal Article (4)

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Journal Article
O'Kane, David and Anna Arnone. 2016. Eritrea. Anthropology Today 32(5): 26–27. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12301.
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Journal Article
O'Kane, David. 2012. Limits to state-led nation-building?: an Eritrean village responds selectively to the plans of the Eritrean government. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 12(2): 309–325.
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Journal Article
O'Kane, David and Rosabelle Boswell. 2011. Introduction: heritage management and tourism in Africa. Journal of Contemporary African Studies 29(4): 361–369. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2011.600845.
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Journal Article
O'Kane, David. 2004. Village community, nation-state and the Eritrean land reform. Béascna 2: 121–138.

Book Chapter (10)

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Book Chapter
Knörr, Jacqueline, Maarten Bedert, Jonas Klee, Anaïs Ménard, Agathe Menetrier, William Murphy, David O'Kane, and Wilson Trajano Filho. 2020. Research Group: 'Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa'. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Report: Department 'Integration and Conflict'; International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment (IMPRS REMEP) 2017/2019.
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Book Chapter
O'Kane, David. 2018. Thinking Sierra Leone and building a new middle class: political expression and political values at the University of Makeni. In: Lena Kroeker, David O'Kane, and Tabea Scharrer (eds.). Middle classes in Africa: changing lives and conceptual challenges. Frontiers of Globalization. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 203–222.
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Book Chapter
O'Kane, David and Tabea Scharrer. 2018. Anthropology and class in Africa: challenges of the past and present. In: Lena Kroeker, David O'Kane, and Tabea Scharrer (eds.). Middle classes in Africa: changing lives and conceptual challenges. Frontiers of Globalization. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 81–105.
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Book Chapter
Scharrer, Tabea, David O'Kane, and Lena Kroeker. 2018. Introduction: Africa’s middle classes in critical perspective. In: Lena Kroeker, David O'Kane, and Tabea Scharrer (eds.). Middle classes in Africa: changing lives and conceptual challenges. Frontiers of Globalization. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1–31.
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Book Chapter
O'Kane, David. 2017. Tropes, networks, and higher education in post-conflict Sierra Leone: policy formation at the University of Makeni. In: Christian Kordt Højbjerg, Jacqueline Knörr, and William P. Murphy (eds.). Politics and policies in Upper Guinea Coast societies: change and continuity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 291–307.
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Book Chapter
O'Kane, David. 2016. Social values and social entrepreneurship at the University of Makeni. In: Ute Röschenthaler and Dorothea Schulz (eds.). Cultural entrepreneurship in Africa. New York: Routledge, pp. 81–98.
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Book Chapter
O'Kane, David. 2014. Preface. What is mafia. Seoul: M&J Publishing House, pp. 11–17.
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Book Chapter
Redeker-Hepner, Tricia and David O'Kane. 2009. Biopolitics and dilemmas of development in Eritrea and elsewhere. Biopolitics, militarism, and development: Eritrea in the twenty-first century. Dislocations 6. New York: Berghahn, pp. 159–170.
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Book Chapter
Redeker-Hepner, Tricia and David O'Kane. 2009. Biopolitics, militarism, and development in contemporary Eritrea. Biopolitics, militarism, and development: Eritrea in the twenty-first century. Dislocations 6. New York: Berghahn, pp. IX-XXXVII.
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Book Chapter
O'Kane, David. 2006. War in a globalising Africa: space, place and the Eritrea-Ethiopia war of 1998-2000. In: Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh and David Getty (eds.). Borders and borderlands in contemporary culture. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 27–32.

Working Paper (3)

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Working Paper
O'Kane, David. 2020. Language, nationhood, and systems: insights from language policy at the University of Makeni, Sierra Leone. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 204. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
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Working Paper
O'Kane, David and Anaïs Ménard. 2015. The frontier in Sierra Leone: past experiences, present status, and future trajectories. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 162. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0025-AFFA-4.
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Working Paper
O'Kane, David. 2014. Towards 'Audit Culture' in Sierra Leone?: understanding 'quality assurance' at the University of Makeni. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 155. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0019-B83D-0.

Book Review (7)

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Book Review
O'Kane, David. 2016. Nation as network: diaspora, cyberspace and citizenship by Victoria Bernal; Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. 208 pp. American Anthropologist 118(1): 180–181. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12455.
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Book Review
O'Kane, David. 2016. Shepler, Susan. Childhood deployed: remaking child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 22(4): 1003–1004. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12519.
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Book Review
O'Kane, David. 2014. Fambul Tok. Director, Sara Terry. 82 Minutes. English and Krio. Catalyst for Peace, 2011. African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review 4(2): 173–175. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/africonfpeacrevi.4.2.173.
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Book Review
O'Kane, David. 2006. Power and anthropology in the twenty-first century: comments on Katherine Verdery's "bringing the anthropologists (back) in". Ab Imperio 1: 73–80.
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Book Review
O'Kane, David. 2005. Marja J. Spierenburg, Strangers, spirits and land reforms: conflicts about land in Dande, Northern Zimbabwe. Leiden: Brill, 2004, pp. xii + 260. Focaal 46: 181–182.
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Book Review
O'Kane, David. 2004. Land and territoriality by Michael Saltman (ed.). Anthropology in Action 11(2/3): 68.
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Book Review
O'Kane, David. 2004. Globalization: studies in anthropology by Thomas Hylland Eriksen (ed.). Anthropology in Action 11(1): 52.

Collected Edition (2)

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Collected Edition
Kroeker, Lena, David O'Kane, and Tabea Scharrer (eds.). 2018. Middle classes in Africa: changing lives and conceptual challenges. 1. ed. Frontiers of Globalization. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Collected Edition
O'Kane, David and Tricia Redeker-Hepner (eds.). 2009. Biopolitics, militarism, and development: Eritrea in the twenty-first century. Dislocations 6. New York: Berghahn.

Monograph (1)

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Monograph
O'Kane, David. 2015. An Eritrean village reacts to land reform. Topics in African Studies 40. Köln: Köppe.
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