Tricia Redeker Hepner
Biographic Data
| ID | 148726 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tricia Redeker Hepner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tricia Redeker |
| FAMILY NAME | Hepner |
| SIGNATURE | HEPNER T R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9789-8456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Spirits, Land, and Bones
In northern Uganda, the living and the dead remain bound together through land, spirits, and the slow labor of repair. Yet forensic science, when deployed in postconflict settings, often treats bodies as evidence and landscapes as backdrops, severing these ties in the name of science or justice. This article applies a socioecological lens to an “integrated approach” to forensic intervention that begins instead with Acholi understandings of person…
Introducing the Anti-Refugee Machine
In their introduction to the special issue, the authors develop the Anti- Refugee Machine (ARM) framework and metaphor to illustrate how interventions intended to address forced migration often reinforce existing power structures. Beginning with an ethnographic case study on Eritrea, the authors draw on Ferguson's Anti-Politics Machine (1994) to argue that rather than alleviating poverty or addressing the root causes of migration, Global North in…
“Justice Futures”
This article addresses the role of the dead and disappeared and the potential for forensic investigation of atrocities in the context of an evolving transitional justice debate and framework for Eritrea. As one possible component of transitional justice, forensic investigation represents an especially potent modality to document the physical evidence of atrocities, help establish truth and accountability, and catalyse deeper conversations about j…
Introduction to human rights on the edge
We convened a conference funded by the National Science Foundation at Arizona State University in April 2021. The 40 papers presented at the conference, a subset of which form this special issue, together demonstrated that, far from collapsing in the face of duress, law is a malleable tool that is deployed in novel ways to promote human rights. Collectively, the conference participants illustrated that the power of human rights lies not in their …
The immediate, the exceptional and the historical
This article discusses the historical development and dialectical interconnections between migration from Eritrea and knowledge construction since the 1960s by academics, migrants and the refugee regime. We explore how knowledge about Eritrea is grounded in dynamics of immediacy: the direct experience of persecution and refuge; fieldwork on the ground; and the urgency of responding to refugee claims and crises. Refugee narratives must also demons…
Discussion Paper. The Anti-Refugee Machine
Chapter 23. Gender, Community, and Change among the Rastafari of New York City
Of Justice and the Grave
In the aftermath of war, survivors’ definitions of justice are often in tension with those of governments and international actors. While post-war northern Uganda has been the site of high-profile prosecutions of Lord’s Resistance Army rebels, our research in rural Acholiland highlights how survivors define justice largely in terms of material compensation for both the living and the dead. These priorities are linked to the omnipresence of improp…
Pragmatic solidarity and asylum expert witnessing
The demand for expert witness testimony has increased in recent years as the numbers of applicants for refugee status/asylum continue to rise and legal restrictions tighten. While the contribution of expert testimony improves outcomes for refugee and asylum claimants and has generated new critical scholarship, participation as an expert witness is not without political, legal, and ethical concerns. Framed in terms of “pragmatic solidarity,” or th…
MPAAC, Sexual Harassment, and Immigration
Human Rights Monitor
African Asylum at a Crossroads
This book examines the emerging trend of requests for expert opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations. It is the first to explore the role of court-based expertise in relation to African asylum cases and the first to establish a rigorous analytical framework for interpreting the effects of this new reliance on expert testimony. Courts in Western countries and beyond have begun demanding expert reports tailored to the experienc…
Generation Nationalism and Generation Asylum
This article examines two major groups of migrants from the Horn of Africa nation of Eritrea that I call "Generation Nationalism" and "Generation Asylum." Steeped in different historical and political contexts at home, ranging from the nationalist struggle for independence to the current climate of militarization and state repression, these generations are both distinct from each other and internally cleaved by political affiliation, region of or…
Religion, Repression, and Human Rights in Eritrea and the Diaspora
This paper analyzes the logic of the Eritrean state's repression of religious identities and institutions from a historical and transnational perspective. It argues that contemporary religious repression expresses cultural, political, and generational conflicts related to the internal dynamics of Eritrea's postrevolutionary transition, the transnational configuration of the nation-state, and larger preoccupations with the pressures of globalizati…
Richard J. Reid. Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa
Conflict and Peacebuilding in the African Great Lakes Region
Eritrea (Africa in Focus Series)
Book Review| April 01 2012 Eritrea (Africa in Focus Series) Eritrea (Africa in Focus Series), Mussie Tesfagiorgis G. Tricia Redeker Hepner Tricia Redeker Hepner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Northeast African Studies (2012) 12 (1): 328–330. https://doi.org/10.2307/41960572 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Tricia Redeker Hepner; Eritrea (Africa in Focus S…
Collaborative Anthropology Comes to Life
Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan
Religion, Nationalism, and Transnational Civil Society in the Eritrean Diaspora
This article examines the emergence and significance of religion among Eritreans in the United States as a basis for building community in diaspora, reconfiguring nationalist identity, and constituting transnational civil society. It argues three related points: that religious identity and gatherings help mitigate against fractured political identities that have weakened secular diaspora associations; that practicing Eritrean identity through rel…
From Guerrillas to Government
Pride, Prejudice, and the Ethnicization of the Eritrean Nation
No abstract
Generation Nationalism and Generation Asylum
This article examines two major groups of migrants from the Horn of Africa nation of Eritrea that I call "Generation Nationalism" and "Generation Asylum." Steeped in different historical and political contexts at home, ranging from the nationalist struggle for independence to the current climate of militarization and state repression, these generations are both distinct from each other and internally cleaved by political affiliation, region of or…
From Guerrillas to Government
African Asylum at a Crossroads
This book examines the emerging trend of requests for expert opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations. It is the first to explore the role of court-based expertise in relation to African asylum cases and the first to establish a rigorous analytical framework for interpreting the effects of this new reliance on expert testimony. Courts in Western countries and beyond have begun demanding expert reports tailored to the experienc…
Pragmatic solidarity and asylum expert witnessing
The demand for expert witness testimony has increased in recent years as the numbers of applicants for refugee status/asylum continue to rise and legal restrictions tighten. While the contribution of expert testimony improves outcomes for refugee and asylum claimants and has generated new critical scholarship, participation as an expert witness is not without political, legal, and ethical concerns. Framed in terms of “pragmatic solidarity,” or th…
Religion, Repression, and Human Rights in Eritrea and the Diaspora
This paper analyzes the logic of the Eritrean state's repression of religious identities and institutions from a historical and transnational perspective. It argues that contemporary religious repression expresses cultural, political, and generational conflicts related to the internal dynamics of Eritrea's postrevolutionary transition, the transnational configuration of the nation-state, and larger preoccupations with the pressures of globalizati…
Of Justice and the Grave
In the aftermath of war, survivors’ definitions of justice are often in tension with those of governments and international actors. While post-war northern Uganda has been the site of high-profile prosecutions of Lord’s Resistance Army rebels, our research in rural Acholiland highlights how survivors define justice largely in terms of material compensation for both the living and the dead. These priorities are linked to the omnipresence of improp…
Collaborative Anthropology Comes to Life
Introducing the Anti-Refugee Machine
In their introduction to the special issue, the authors develop the Anti- Refugee Machine (ARM) framework and metaphor to illustrate how interventions intended to address forced migration often reinforce existing power structures. Beginning with an ethnographic case study on Eritrea, the authors draw on Ferguson's Anti-Politics Machine (1994) to argue that rather than alleviating poverty or addressing the root causes of migration, Global North in…
Pride, Prejudice, and the Ethnicization of the Eritrean Nation
No abstract
Religion, Nationalism, and Transnational Civil Society in the Eritrean Diaspora
This article examines the emergence and significance of religion among Eritreans in the United States as a basis for building community in diaspora, reconfiguring nationalist identity, and constituting transnational civil society. It argues three related points: that religious identity and gatherings help mitigate against fractured political identities that have weakened secular diaspora associations; that practicing Eritrean identity through rel…
From Guerrillas to Government
Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan
Collaborative Anthropology Comes to Life
Eritrea (Africa in Focus Series)
Book Review| April 01 2012 Eritrea (Africa in Focus Series) Eritrea (Africa in Focus Series), Mussie Tesfagiorgis G. Tricia Redeker Hepner Tricia Redeker Hepner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Northeast African Studies (2012) 12 (1): 328–330. https://doi.org/10.2307/41960572 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Tricia Redeker Hepner; Eritrea (Africa in Focus S…
Richard J. Reid. Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa
Conflict and Peacebuilding in the African Great Lakes Region
Religion, Repression, and Human Rights in Eritrea and the Diaspora
This paper analyzes the logic of the Eritrean state's repression of religious identities and institutions from a historical and transnational perspective. It argues that contemporary religious repression expresses cultural, political, and generational conflicts related to the internal dynamics of Eritrea's postrevolutionary transition, the transnational configuration of the nation-state, and larger preoccupations with the pressures of globalizati…
African Asylum at a Crossroads
This book examines the emerging trend of requests for expert opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations. It is the first to explore the role of court-based expertise in relation to African asylum cases and the first to establish a rigorous analytical framework for interpreting the effects of this new reliance on expert testimony. Courts in Western countries and beyond have begun demanding expert reports tailored to the experienc…
Generation Nationalism and Generation Asylum
This article examines two major groups of migrants from the Horn of Africa nation of Eritrea that I call "Generation Nationalism" and "Generation Asylum." Steeped in different historical and political contexts at home, ranging from the nationalist struggle for independence to the current climate of militarization and state repression, these generations are both distinct from each other and internally cleaved by political affiliation, region of or…
Human Rights Monitor
MPAAC, Sexual Harassment, and Immigration
Of Justice and the Grave
In the aftermath of war, survivors’ definitions of justice are often in tension with those of governments and international actors. While post-war northern Uganda has been the site of high-profile prosecutions of Lord’s Resistance Army rebels, our research in rural Acholiland highlights how survivors define justice largely in terms of material compensation for both the living and the dead. These priorities are linked to the omnipresence of improp…
Pragmatic solidarity and asylum expert witnessing
The demand for expert witness testimony has increased in recent years as the numbers of applicants for refugee status/asylum continue to rise and legal restrictions tighten. While the contribution of expert testimony improves outcomes for refugee and asylum claimants and has generated new critical scholarship, participation as an expert witness is not without political, legal, and ethical concerns. Framed in terms of “pragmatic solidarity,” or th…
Chapter 23. Gender, Community, and Change among the Rastafari of New York City
The immediate, the exceptional and the historical
This article discusses the historical development and dialectical interconnections between migration from Eritrea and knowledge construction since the 1960s by academics, migrants and the refugee regime. We explore how knowledge about Eritrea is grounded in dynamics of immediacy: the direct experience of persecution and refuge; fieldwork on the ground; and the urgency of responding to refugee claims and crises. Refugee narratives must also demons…
Discussion Paper. The Anti-Refugee Machine
“Justice Futures”
This article addresses the role of the dead and disappeared and the potential for forensic investigation of atrocities in the context of an evolving transitional justice debate and framework for Eritrea. As one possible component of transitional justice, forensic investigation represents an especially potent modality to document the physical evidence of atrocities, help establish truth and accountability, and catalyse deeper conversations about j…
Introduction to human rights on the edge
We convened a conference funded by the National Science Foundation at Arizona State University in April 2021. The 40 papers presented at the conference, a subset of which form this special issue, together demonstrated that, far from collapsing in the face of duress, law is a malleable tool that is deployed in novel ways to promote human rights. Collectively, the conference participants illustrated that the power of human rights lies not in their …
Introducing the Anti-Refugee Machine
In their introduction to the special issue, the authors develop the Anti- Refugee Machine (ARM) framework and metaphor to illustrate how interventions intended to address forced migration often reinforce existing power structures. Beginning with an ethnographic case study on Eritrea, the authors draw on Ferguson's Anti-Politics Machine (1994) to argue that rather than alleviating poverty or addressing the root causes of migration, Global North in…
Spirits, Land, and Bones
In northern Uganda, the living and the dead remain bound together through land, spirits, and the slow labor of repair. Yet forensic science, when deployed in postconflict settings, often treats bodies as evidence and landscapes as backdrops, severing these ties in the name of science or justice. This article applies a socioecological lens to an “integrated approach” to forensic intervention that begins instead with Acholi understandings of person…
Political science (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · African history and culture analysis (9 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Refugee (6 works) · Citation (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works)