Publications of Olaf Zenker

Eidson, J. R.; Feyissa, D.; Fuest, V.; Hoehne, M. V.; Nieswand, B.; Schlee, G.; Zenker, O.: From identification to framing and alignment: a new approach to the comparative analysis of collective identities. Current Anthropology 58 (3), pp. 340 - 351 (2017)

Zenker, O.: Anthropology on trial: exploring the laws of anthropological expertise. International Journal of Law in Context 12 (3), pp. 293 - 311 (2016)

Zenker, O.: South African land restitution, white claimants and the fateful frontier of former KwaNdebele. Journal of Southern African Studies 41 (5), pp. 1019 - 1034 (2015)

Zenker, O.: De-judicialization, outsourced review and all too flexible bureaucracies in South African land restitution. Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 33 (1), pp. 81 - 96 (2015)

Zenker, O.; Jensen, S.: Homelands as frontiers: apartheid’s loose ends - an introduction. Journal of Southern African Studies 41 (5), pp. 937 - 952 (2015)

Anders, G.; Zenker, O.: Transition and justice: an introduction. Development and Change 45 (3), pp. 395 - 414 (2014)

Zenker, O.: Linguistic relativity and dialectical idiomatization: language ideologies and second language acquisition in the Irish language revival of Northern Ireland. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 24 (1), pp. 63 - 83 (2014)

Zenker, O.: New law against an old state: land restitution as a transition to justice in post-apartheid South Africa? Development and Change 45 (3), pp. 502 - 523 (2014)

Zenker, O.: Landreform in Südafrika: die Neuauflage der Landrückerstattung setzt falsche Akzente. Afrika-Bulletin 151, pp. 6 - 7 (2013)

Zenker, O.: On prophets, godfathers, rebels, and prostitutes: distributed agency in the Irish language revival of Northern Ireland. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 137 (1), pp. 23 - 45 (2012)

Zenker, O.: Autochthony, ethnicity, indigeneity and nationalism: time-honouring and state-oriented modes of rooting individual-territory-group triads in a globalizing world. Critique of Anthropology 31 (1), pp. 63 - 81 (2011)

Zenker, O.: Between the lines: Republicanism, dissenters and the politics of meta-trauma in the Northern Irish conflict. Social Science and Medicine 71 (2), pp. 236 - 243 (2010)

Zenker, O.: 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? Nations and Nationalism 15 (4), pp. 696 - 715 (2009)

Zenker, O.: Reply: response to Joep Leerssen. Nations and Nationalism 15 (4), pp. 720 - 722 (2009)

Zenker, O.: Kommentar zu Christian Meyer und Nikolaus Schareika "Neoklassische Feldforschung: die mikroskopische Untersuchung sozialer Ereignisse als ethnographische Methode". Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 134 (1), pp. 107 - 109 (2009)

Zenker, O.: De facto exclusion through discursive inclusion: autochthony in discourses on Irishness and politics in Catholic West Belfast. Paideuma 52, pp. 183 - 195 (2006)

Zenker, O.; Sureau, T.; Goetzelmann, T.: Digital infrastructuring as institutional affect(ing) in German migration management. In: Affect, Power, and Institutions, pp. 105 - 124 (Eds. Churcher, M.; Calkins, S.; Böttger, J.; Slaby, J.). Routledge, London; New York (2023)

Foblets, M.-C.; Goodale, M.; Sapignoli, M.; Zenker, O.: Introduction: mapping the field of law and anthropology. In: The Oxford handbook of law and anthropology, pp. 1 - 15 (Eds. Foblets, M.-C.; Goodale, M.; Sapignoli, M.; Zenker, O.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2022)

Zenker, O.: Politics of belonging. In: The Oxford handbook of law and anthropology, pp. 772 - 791 (Eds. Foblets, M.-C.; Goodale, M.; Sapignoli, M.; Zenker, O.). Oxford University Press, Oxford (2022)

Vetters, L.; Zenker, O.: "Diversität" in der deutschen Migrationsverwaltung: zur Domestizierung von Pluralität. In: Umkämpfte Vielfalt: affektive Dynamiken institutioneller Diversifizierung, pp. 66 - 94 (Eds. Dilger, H.; Warstat, M.). Campus, Frankfurt; New York (2021)

Zenker, O.: Bush-level bureaucrats in South African land restitution: implementing state law under chiefly rule. In: The state and the paradox of customary law in Africa, pp. 41 - 63 (Eds. Zenker, O.; Hoehne, M. V.). Routledge, London; New York (2018)

Zenker, O.: Why the individual must be defended - seemingly against all anthropological odds. In: Personal autonomy in plural societies: a principle and its paradoxes, 1. ed. Ed., pp. 98 - 111 (Eds. Foblets, M.-C.; Graziadei, M.; Dundes Renteln, A.). Routledge, London; New York (2018)

Zenker, O.: Land restitution (old and new), neotraditionalism, and the contested values of land justice in South Africa. In: Pursuing justice in Africa: competing imaginaries and contested practices, 1. ed. Ed., pp. 243 - 263 (Eds. Johnson, J.; Karekwaivanane, G. H.). Ohio University Press, Athens (2018)

Zenker, O.: Language and identity. In: The international encyclopedia of anthropology, Vol. 7, pp. 3616 - 3622 (Ed. Callan, H.). Wiley Blackwell, Hoboken; Chichester (2018)

Zenker, O.; Hoehne, M. V.: Processing the paradox: when the state has to deal with customary law. In: The state and the paradox of customary law in Africa, pp. 1 - 40 (Eds. Zenker, O.; Hoehne, M. V.). Routledge, London; New York (2018)

Zenker, O.: South African land restitution, white claimants and the fateful frontier of former KwaNdebele. In: South African homelands as frontiers: apartheid’s loose ends in the postcolonial era, pp. 83 - 98 (Eds. Zenker, O.; Jensen, S.). Routledge, New York (2017)

Zenker, O.: Failure by the numbers?: settlement statistics as indicators of state performance in South African land restitution. In: A world of indicators: the making of governmental knowledge through quantification, pp. 102 - 126 (Eds. Rottenburg, R.; Engle, S. E.; Park, S.-J.; Mugler, J.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2015)

Zenker, O.: The juridification of political protest and the politicisation of legalism in South African land restitution. In: Law against the state: ethnographic forays into law's transformations, pp. 118 - 146 (Eds. Eckert, J.; Donahoe, B.; Strümpell, C.; Biner, Z. Ö.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2012)

Zenker, O.: Language matters: reflexive notes on representing the Irish language revival in Catholic West Belfast. In: Beyond writing culture: current intersections of epistemologies and representational practices, pp. 121 - 138 (Eds. Zenker, O.; Kumoll, K.). Berghahn, New York (2010)

Zenker, O.; Kumoll, K.: Prologue: opening doors beyond Writing Culture. In: Beyond writing culture: current intersections of epistemologies and representational practices, pp. 1 - 38 (Eds. Zenker, O.; Kumoll, K.). Berghahn, New York (2010)

Zenker, O.: Irish/ness is all around us: the Irish language and Irish identity in Catholic West Belfast. Dissertation, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale (2008)

Zenker, O.: White claimants and the moral community of South African land restitution. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 151 (2014), 23 pp.

Zenker, O.: The indicatorisation of South African land restitution. BAB Working Paper/Basler Afrika Bibliographien (1) (2012), 26 pp.

Zenker, O.: Land restitution and transitional justice in post-apartheid South Africa. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 134 (2011), 24 pp.

Donahoe, B.; Eidson, J.; Feyissa, D.; Fuest, V.; Hoehne, M. V.; Nieswand, B.; Schlee, G.; Zenker, O.: The formation and mobilization of collective identities in situations of conflict and integration. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 116 (2009), 47 pp.

Zenker, O.: Between the lines of socio-cultures of trauma: republicanism, dissenters and the politics of meta-trauma in the Northern Irish conflict. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 115 (2009), 15 pp.

Homelands as frontiers: apartheid’s loose ends (Special issue). Journal of Southern African Studies 41, (5) (2015)

Anders, G.; Zenker, O. (Eds.): Transition and justice: negotiating the terms of new beginnings in Africa (Special issue). Development and Change 45, (3) (2014)

Zenker, O.: Writing culture, (2014)

Zenker, O.: Irische Identitäten und irische Sprache im Spannungsfeld von Diskurs und Praxis im katholischen West-Belfast, Nord-Irland, Bericht/Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung: Sonderausgabe 2005, pp. 109 - 118 (2005)

Zenker, O.: Melancholia of freedom: social life in an Indian township in South Africa. Thomas Blom Hansen. 2012. American Ethnologist 41 (2), pp. 384 - 385 (2014)

Zenker, O.: Kapferer, Bruce and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (eds.). 2009. Crisis of the State. War and Social Upheaval. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books. 320 pp. Anthropological Notebooks 16 (2) (2010)

Zenker, O.: Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Richard Jenkins: Flag, nation and symbolism in Europe and America. Anthropological Notebooks 14 (1), pp. 123 - 124 (2008)

Foblets, M.-C.; Goodale, M.; Sapignoli, M.; Zenker, O. (Eds.): The Oxford handbook of law and anthropology. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2022)

Zenker, O.; Hoehne, M. V. (Eds.): The state and the paradox of customary law in Africa. Routledge, London; New York (2018), XI, 232 pp.

Bens, J.; Zenker, O. (Eds.): Gerechtigkeitsgefühle: zur affektiven und emotionalen Legitimität von Normen. transcript, Bielefeld (2017), 268 pp.

Jensen, S.; Zenker, O. (Eds.): South African homelands as frontiers: apartheid’s loose ends in the postcolonial era. Routledge, London; New York (2017), VIII, 176 pp.

Anders, G.; Zenker, O. (Eds.): Transition and justice: negotiating the terms of new beginnings in Africa. Wiley Blackwell, Oxford (2015), VIII, 256 pp.

Zenker, O.; Kumoll, K. (Eds.): Beyond writing culture: current intersections of epistemologies and representational practices. Berghahn, New York (2010), IX, 245 pp.

Zenker, O.: Irish/ness is all around us: language revivalism and the culture of ethnic identity in Northern Ireland. Berghahn, New York (2013)

Zenker, O.: Techniken zur kommunikativen Herstellung von Gruppenzugehörigkeit: eine Gesprächsanalyse über Imagearbeit bei Obdachlosen. Dissertation.de, Berlin (2004), 172 pp.

Zenker, O.: Ethnizität und politischer Aktivismus: eine Fallstudie über drei jugendliche Aussiedler in Hamburg. GRIN Verlag, München (2001), 87 pp.

10 questions for Olaf Zenker. (2021)