Olaf Zenker: 2 books
Irish/ness Is All Around Us
Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language, music, dance and sports. The author’s theoretical...
Transition and Justice
Negotiating the Terms of New Beginnings in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Transition and Justice examines a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful ‘new beginnings’ were declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions helped define justice and the new socio-political order.
Offers a new perspective on transition...