Kevin C Dunn
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 212115 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kevin C Dunn |
| NOMBRES | Kevin C |
| APELLIDO | Dunn |
| FIRMA | DUNN K C |
| AFILIACIONES | Hobart and William Smith Colleges |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7690-3263 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 141 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Batman Saves the Congo
In 2010, Ben Affleck, the actor perhaps best known for his numerous portrayals as Batman in the never-ending movie franchise, founded the Eastern Congo Initiative (ECI) in an attempt to provide a better, more effective model for development, community engagement, and North-South relations. As Budabin and Richey point out in Batman Saves the Congo, Affleck and his ECI reflect a significant change in the role of the celebrity as political activist.…
Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett, Punks in Peoria
Wot ‘Bout Me?”
This essay offers a narrative history, though certainly not definitive, of punk in South Africa. Rather than an ethnographic study or a history of popular culture, the essay places this narrative firmly within the academic fields of Political Science, International Relations, and International Political Economy. The story of punk in South Africa also illustrates the tensions and contradictions within the multiple, complex circuits and processes i…
Africas Insurgents
Amid an array of shifting national, regional, and global forces, how have African insurgents managed to adapt and survive? And what differences and similarities can be found, both among the continent's diverse rebellions and guerilla movements and between them and movements elsewhere in the world? Addressing these issues, the authors of Africa's Insurgents explore how new groups are emerging and existing ones changing in response to an evolving l…
Shakespeare, Court Dramatist
Undertaking Discourse Analysis for Social Research
Kevin C. Dunn and Iver B. Neumann offer a concise, accessible introduction to discourse analysis in the social sciences. A vital resource for students and scholars alike, Undertaking Discourse Analysis for Social Research combines a theoretical and conceptual review with a "how-to" guide for using the method. In the first part of the book, the authors discuss the development of discourse analysis as a research method and identify the main theoret…
The Pedagogical Power of a Lavender Dildo
Pussy Rioting
This essay explores the evolution of the Riot Grrrl movement. A feminist punk movement that profoundly impacted popular culture in the West during the 1990s, Riot Grrrl is generally regarded as an important but short-lived phenomenon. This paper explores the political relevance of Riot Grrrl within both feminism and popular culture, but also debunks the myth that Riot Grrrl faded away by the turn of the century. Exploring specific cases in Russia…
Authority in European Book Culture 1400–1600
Pollie Bromilow, ed. Authority in European Book Culture 1400–1600. Material Readings in Early Modern Culture. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. xi + 232 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-1010-8. - Volume 67 Issue 3
Peeling the onion
Many different attempts have been made to explain the ongoing conflict in the DRC, ranging from ethnicity, to greed and resource wars, to the role of colonialism, and each provides useful contributions to the debate. In this article, we emphasise the concept of autochthony, which links identity and space, enabling the speaker to establish a direct claim to territory by asserting that he or she is an original inhabitant, a ‘son of the soil’. Its e…
“If It Ain't Cheap, It Ain't Punk”: Walter Benjamin's Progressive Cultural Production and DIY Punk Record Labels
Owning William Shakespeare
We Are the Revolution”
Punk rock emerged in the late 20th century as a major disruptive force within both the established music scene and the larger capitalist societies of the industrial West. Punk was generally charact
The Lord's Resistance Army and African International Relations
For the past two decades, the Lord's Resistance Army has waged a devastating war against the central government and the local population in northern Uganda. It is estimated that tens of thousands of civilians have been killed or kidnapped so far. In recent years, Lord's Resistance Army forces led by Joseph Kony have moved beyond the confines of northern Uganda, turning what was a relatively localized civil war into a larger regional conflict. Med…
There is No Such Thing as the State
The 'state' is one of the foundational concepts in the fields of development studies, yet it is often employed in the literature uncritically, with academics assuming an essentialised presence of the state. This article begins with Roxanne Doty's blunt and provocative observation: 'There is no such thing as "the state"', which forces us to stop and examine closely what it is we are actually seeing when we talk about 'the state'. This article offe…
Sons of the Soil’ and Contemporary State Making
The employment of autochthony discourses has become a prominent feature of contemporary politics around the world. Autochthony discourses link identity and space, enabling the speaker to establish a direct claim to territory by asserting that one is an original inhabitant, a ‘son of the soil’. Drawing from recent African examples, this contribution argues that the employment of autochthony discourses is an attractive response to the ontological u…
Contested State Spaces
Since the ‘linguistic turn’ in International Relations, it is assumed that agents like the state are always effects of discourse and should be ‘decentered’ rather than made the starting point for theory. Yet, most postmodern IR scholarship implicitly assumes a particular conception of the state. This article provides an explicit elaboration of that conceptualization, positing that the state is a discursively produced structural/structuring effect…
Historical Representations
I am most interested in how certain social identities are constructed, and how they make certain practices possible but others unthinkable. Like Roxanne Doty, I examine 'how meanings are produced and attached to various social subjects and objects, thus constituting particular interpretive dispositions that create certain possibilities and preclude others' (1996: 4). I am less interested in 'what' questions, since these often prompt historical na…
Never mind the bollocks
Largely ignored by scholars of world politics, the global punk rock scene provides a fruitful basis for exploring the multiple circuits of exchange and circulation of goods, people, and messages that moves beyond the limitations of IR. Punk can also offer new ways of thinking about international relations and communication from the lived experiences of people’s daily lives. At its core, this essay has two arguments. First, punk offers the possibi…
Uganda
African Guerrillas
Uniting Africa
Journal Article Uniting Africa: Building Regional Peace and Security Systems by David J. Francis Get access Uniting Africa: Building Regional Peace and Security Systemsby David J. Francis. Brookfield, VT, Ashgate Publishing Co., 2006. 278pp. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $39.95. Kevin C. Dunn Kevin C. Dunn Hobart and William Smith Colleges Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 122, Is…
Examining Historical Representations
Journal Article Examining Historical Representations Get access Kevin C. Dunn Kevin C. Dunn Department of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2006, Pages 370–381, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2486.2006.00598_3.x Published: 02 October 2006
Identity and Global Politics
This collected volume draws together essays written by International Relations scholars from a variety of regional, methodological and theoretical perspectives to confront the challenges of identity-c
Politics of Origin in Africa
1. Introduction: conflict, land scarcity and tales of origin * 2. Autochthony, melancholy and uncertainty in contemporary African politics * 3. Liberia: civil war and the 'Mandingo question' * 4. Kenya: majimboism, indigenous land claims and electoral violence * 5. Democratic Republic of Congo: 'dead certainty' in North Kivu * 6. Cote d'Ivoire: production and the politics of belonging * 7. Conclusion
Sons of the Soil’ and Contemporary State Making
The employment of autochthony discourses has become a prominent feature of contemporary politics around the world. Autochthony discourses link identity and space, enabling the speaker to establish a direct claim to territory by asserting that one is an original inhabitant, a ‘son of the soil’. Drawing from recent African examples, this contribution argues that the employment of autochthony discourses is an attractive response to the ontological u…
Imagining the Congo
Contested State Spaces
Since the ‘linguistic turn’ in International Relations, it is assumed that agents like the state are always effects of discourse and should be ‘decentered’ rather than made the starting point for theory. Yet, most postmodern IR scholarship implicitly assumes a particular conception of the state. This article provides an explicit elaboration of that conceptualization, positing that the state is a discursively produced structural/structuring effect…
There is No Such Thing as the State
The 'state' is one of the foundational concepts in the fields of development studies, yet it is often employed in the literature uncritically, with academics assuming an essentialised presence of the state. This article begins with Roxanne Doty's blunt and provocative observation: 'There is no such thing as "the state"', which forces us to stop and examine closely what it is we are actually seeing when we talk about 'the state'. This article offe…
Fear of a black planet
Western travel to Africa has historically involved the construction and consumption of African otherness. In the postcolonial era this is most clearly evident in Western tourism to the continent, where Africa is frequently marketed as an exoticised destination to see and consume both 'nature' and 'native'. The Western tourist gaze often requires fixing Africans, both in a spatial site ('village') and a temporal site ('tradition'). Africans on the…
Examining Historical Representations
Journal Article Examining Historical Representations Get access Kevin C. Dunn Kevin C. Dunn Department of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2006, Pages 370–381, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2486.2006.00598_3.x Published: 02 October 2006
Imagining Mobutu's Zaïre
Peeling the onion
Many different attempts have been made to explain the ongoing conflict in the DRC, ranging from ethnicity, to greed and resource wars, to the role of colonialism, and each provides useful contributions to the debate. In this article, we emphasise the concept of autochthony, which links identity and space, enabling the speaker to establish a direct claim to territory by asserting that he or she is an original inhabitant, a ‘son of the soil’. Its e…
Never mind the bollocks
Largely ignored by scholars of world politics, the global punk rock scene provides a fruitful basis for exploring the multiple circuits of exchange and circulation of goods, people, and messages that moves beyond the limitations of IR. Punk can also offer new ways of thinking about international relations and communication from the lived experiences of people’s daily lives. At its core, this essay has two arguments. First, punk offers the possibi…
The History of Congo
Preface Introduction The Congo Basin in Ancient and Precolonial Times Colonial Conquest 1885-1890 Leopoldian Congo 1885-1908 Bula Matari 1908-1945 The Crisis of Decolonization 1945-1960 The First Republic 1960-1965 The Second Republic 1965-1990 Democratic Transition 1990-1997 The Third Republic 1997-2001 Epilogue: Africa's First Continental War Appendix: Notable People of the Congo Selected Bibliography Index
We Are the Revolution”
Punk rock emerged in the late 20th century as a major disruptive force within both the established music scene and the larger capitalist societies of the industrial West. Punk was generally charact
Africa's Challenge to International Relations Theory
Identity, space and the political economy of conflict in Central Africa
This article examines the current war in the Congo (Democratic Republic of; formerly Zaire) by incorporating recent theoretical work from the sub‐fields of International Political Economy (IPE), Identity Theory, and Critical Geopolitics. This article places the current conflict in a larger historic context, emphasising a lengthy tradition of resource extraction, identity formation and spatial definition. The essay argues that existing explanation…
Pussy Rioting
This essay explores the evolution of the Riot Grrrl movement. A feminist punk movement that profoundly impacted popular culture in the West during the 1990s, Riot Grrrl is generally regarded as an important but short-lived phenomenon. This paper explores the political relevance of Riot Grrrl within both feminism and popular culture, but also debunks the myth that Riot Grrrl faded away by the turn of the century. Exploring specific cases in Russia…
The Lord's Resistance Army and African International Relations
For the past two decades, the Lord's Resistance Army has waged a devastating war against the central government and the local population in northern Uganda. It is estimated that tens of thousands of civilians have been killed or kidnapped so far. In recent years, Lord's Resistance Army forces led by Joseph Kony have moved beyond the confines of northern Uganda, turning what was a relatively localized civil war into a larger regional conflict. Med…
African Foreign Policies
A Great City is a Great Solitude
A Great City is a Great Solitude
Lights…Camera…Africa
The steady beating of the war-drums grows stronger. An exotically painted black face peers out behind a bush. The African porters drop their packs and cower in fear, but the tall, courageous white hunter forces them on. Suddenly a spear flies out of the bush and hits a porter in the chest. The rest of the porters, screaming, disperse into the jungle, only to be cut down by the savages. With his trusty gun, the white man fends off the brutes and r…
The Congo-Zaire Experience, 1960-98
Historical Dictionary of Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)
This title is a revised edition of Historical Dictionary of Zaire, published in 1988. The author looks back at 30 years of Mobutu, nearly 40 years of independence, over a century of colonial rule and even earlier kingdoms and groups that shared the territory. In the AFRICAN HISTORICAL DICTIONARIES series
Africa’s Challenge to International Relations Theory
Africa has been noticeably absent in international relations theory. This new collection of essays by contemporary Africanists convincingly demonstrates the importance of the continent to every theore
Imagining Mobutu's Zaïre
Identity, space and the political economy of conflict in Central Africa
This article examines the current war in the Congo (Democratic Republic of; formerly Zaire) by incorporating recent theoretical work from the sub‐fields of International Political Economy (IPE), Identity Theory, and Critical Geopolitics. This article places the current conflict in a larger historic context, emphasising a lengthy tradition of resource extraction, identity formation and spatial definition. The essay argues that existing explanation…
Africa's Challenge to International Relations Theory
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila
African Foreign Policies
Introduction
On the afternoon of January 16, 2001, Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila was sitting in his office. Kabila had been president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for less than four tumultuous years. Earlier that day, President Kabila had refused to eat his lunch because of reports that it was poisoned. Forty-five minutes later, Rachidi Kasereka, a young member of his personal bodyguard, reportedly walked in and fired several bullets in…
Inventing the Congo
In 1876, King Leopold II of Belgium organized the International Geographic Conference to position himself within Europe’s colonization of the African continent. As the above quote from his opening speech illustrates, Leopold II sought to portray himself as a benevolent, selfless leader interested in opening up Africa for civilization, trade, salvation, and exploration. From an early age, the king had shown an interest in the general European tren…
Congo as Chaos, Lumumba as Diable
Most visitors to Brussels are probably familiar with the Atomium, one of the city’s most recognizable icons. The towering structure of nine spheres linked by tubes is 102 meters tall and was built to represent the atomic lattice of iron crystals, magnified 165 billion times. The Atomium was created to serve as the centerpiece, celebrating scientific progress, for the 1958 Brussels Universal Exhibition. Situated at the northern foot of the Atomium…
Taking Inventory
Let us end where we came in. On the afternoon of January 16, 2001, while sitting in his office, Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila was gunned down by a bodyguard. His assassination ended his short but tumultuous reign in the renamed Democratic Republic of Congo, a reign largely dominated by a protracted war that, at the time of his death, had claimed at least 100,000 lives ( New York Times , 6 February 2000, 8). I have argued that to under…
From Congo to Zaïre
When Muhammad Ali climbed into the boxing ring on October 30, 1974, he was facing far stronger, bigger, and younger George Foreman. It would turn out to be the event that established Ali’s reputation for brilliance as a fighter and a strategist. 1 Foreman appeared to be on his way to victory in the early rounds of the fight, pinning Ali to the ropes with his superior strength and size. But Ali’s manager had loosened the ropes slightly, providing …
Imagining the Congo
Understanding the current civil war in the Congo requires an examination of how the Congo's identity has been imagined over time. Imagining the Congo historicizes and contextualizes the constructions
Imagining the Congo
Imagining the Congo
The History of Congo
Preface Introduction The Congo Basin in Ancient and Precolonial Times Colonial Conquest 1885-1890 Leopoldian Congo 1885-1908 Bula Matari 1908-1945 The Crisis of Decolonization 1945-1960 The First Republic 1960-1965 The Second Republic 1965-1990 Democratic Transition 1990-1997 The Third Republic 1997-2001 Epilogue: Africa's First Continental War Appendix: Notable People of the Congo Selected Bibliography Index
Identity and Global Politics
This collected volume draws together essays written by International Relations scholars from a variety of regional, methodological and theoretical perspectives to confront the challenges of identity-c
Identity and Global Politics
Killing For Christ? The Lord's Resistance Army of Uganda
The LRA's war in Uganda, like many conflicts in Africa, may appear illogical to the outsider (and especially to the Western media), but it contains an internal logic that makes it rational to the participants
Narrating Identity
On June 30, 1960, the Belgian government officially granted the Congo its independence as a sovereign state. At the Independence ceremony, Belgian King Baudouin and newly elected Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba each addressed the crowd, delivering two extremely different versions of the Belgian colonial project in the Congo. The Belgian king’s comments, like the dominant Belgian discourses, continued to be informed by the rhetoric of sal…
Fear of a black planet
Western travel to Africa has historically involved the construction and consumption of African otherness. In the postcolonial era this is most clearly evident in Western tourism to the continent, where Africa is frequently marketed as an exoticised destination to see and consume both 'nature' and 'native'. The Western tourist gaze often requires fixing Africans, both in a spatial site ('village') and a temporal site ('tradition'). Africans on the…
Examining Historical Representations
Journal Article Examining Historical Representations Get access Kevin C. Dunn Kevin C. Dunn Department of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2006, Pages 370–381, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2486.2006.00598_3.x Published: 02 October 2006
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