Susanne Verheul
Biographic Data
| ID | 218471 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanne Verheul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Verheul |
| SIGNATURE | VERHEUL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5256-5685 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
States of Feeling: Public Servants’ Affective and Emotional Entanglements in the Making of the State
With the affective turn, scholars pay increased attention to the emotional dimensions of everyday life. This special issue builds on this work through an explicit focus on bureaucracies to show what a more sustained attention to affects and emotions can bring to the study of the state, both as an apparatus and as an image. Contributions highlight the importance of ethnographically studying the affective relations and emotional engagements of publ…
Performing Power in Zimbabwe: Politics, Law, and the Courts since 2000
Focusing on political trials in Zimbabwe's Magistrates' Courts between 2000 and 2012, Susanne Verheul explores why the judiciary have remained a central site of contestation in post-independence Zimbabwe. Drawing on rich court observations and in-depth interviews, this book foregrounds law's potential to reproduce or transform social and political power through the narrative, material, and sensory dimensions of courtroom performances. Instead of …
From 'Defending Sovereignty' to 'Fighting Corruption: The Political Place of Law in Zimbabwe After November 2017
In this article, I examine the shifting language of debates over law and justice in Zimbabwe in the run-up to, and following, the November 2017 coup. I argue that the rhetoric Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) drew upon to secure its authority and negotiate legitimacy through law, shifted from a focus of 'sovereignty' and 'protection', to one of battling 'corruption' and 'criminality'. At the same time, there remained a co…
Rotten Row is Rotten to the Core: The Material and Sensory Politics of Harare's Magistrates' Courts after 2000
This article analyzes how state power and authority were established and critiqued through the performative, material, and sensory characteristics of Harare's Criminal Magistrates' Courts in Zimbabwe. Drawing on courtroom observations and interviews conducted with human rights lawyers and their clients between 2010 and 2018, this article shows how Zimbabwe's deteriorating political and economic situation after 2000 caused a decline of the materia…
Zimbabweans Are Foolishly Litigious: Exploring the Logic of Appeals to a Politicized Legal System
In this article, I focus on the narratives of two men, Patrick and Father Marko Mkandla. I ask whether their continued interactions with, and appeals to, Zimbabwe's politicized legal system were 'foolish'. The two men inhabited different geographic regions and diverged in their economic positions, political engagement, and ties to Zimbabwe's human rights networks. They nonetheless both started their accounts by recollecting that they persisted in…
Rebels' and 'Good Boys: Patronage, Intimidation and Resistance in Zimbabwe's Attorney General's Office after 2000
In post-2000 Zimbabwe, the rule of law was undermined as ZANU(PF) dismissed the importance of judicial independence in order to promote its land reform programme. The assumptions of disorder and a lack of institutional strength that mark understandings of the postcolonial African state may thus appear appropriate to the analysis of the negotiation of power and authority within the Zimbabwean state. A focus on a politics of disorder does not, howe…
Rebels' and 'Good Boys: Patronage, Intimidation and Resistance in Zimbabwe's Attorney General's Office after 2000
In post-2000 Zimbabwe, the rule of law was undermined as ZANU(PF) dismissed the importance of judicial independence in order to promote its land reform programme. The assumptions of disorder and a lack of institutional strength that mark understandings of the postcolonial African state may thus appear appropriate to the analysis of the negotiation of power and authority within the Zimbabwean state. A focus on a politics of disorder does not, howe…
Zimbabweans Are Foolishly Litigious: Exploring the Logic of Appeals to a Politicized Legal System
In this article, I focus on the narratives of two men, Patrick and Father Marko Mkandla. I ask whether their continued interactions with, and appeals to, Zimbabwe's politicized legal system were 'foolish'. The two men inhabited different geographic regions and diverged in their economic positions, political engagement, and ties to Zimbabwe's human rights networks. They nonetheless both started their accounts by recollecting that they persisted in…
States of Feeling: Public Servants’ Affective and Emotional Entanglements in the Making of the State
With the affective turn, scholars pay increased attention to the emotional dimensions of everyday life. This special issue builds on this work through an explicit focus on bureaucracies to show what a more sustained attention to affects and emotions can bring to the study of the state, both as an apparatus and as an image. Contributions highlight the importance of ethnographically studying the affective relations and emotional engagements of publ…
From 'Defending Sovereignty' to 'Fighting Corruption: The Political Place of Law in Zimbabwe After November 2017
In this article, I examine the shifting language of debates over law and justice in Zimbabwe in the run-up to, and following, the November 2017 coup. I argue that the rhetoric Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) drew upon to secure its authority and negotiate legitimacy through law, shifted from a focus of 'sovereignty' and 'protection', to one of battling 'corruption' and 'criminality'. At the same time, there remained a co…
Rotten Row is Rotten to the Core: The Material and Sensory Politics of Harare's Magistrates' Courts after 2000
This article analyzes how state power and authority were established and critiqued through the performative, material, and sensory characteristics of Harare's Criminal Magistrates' Courts in Zimbabwe. Drawing on courtroom observations and interviews conducted with human rights lawyers and their clients between 2010 and 2018, this article shows how Zimbabwe's deteriorating political and economic situation after 2000 caused a decline of the materia…
Rebels' and 'Good Boys: Patronage, Intimidation and Resistance in Zimbabwe's Attorney General's Office after 2000
In post-2000 Zimbabwe, the rule of law was undermined as ZANU(PF) dismissed the importance of judicial independence in order to promote its land reform programme. The assumptions of disorder and a lack of institutional strength that mark understandings of the postcolonial African state may thus appear appropriate to the analysis of the negotiation of power and authority within the Zimbabwean state. A focus on a politics of disorder does not, howe…
Zimbabweans Are Foolishly Litigious: Exploring the Logic of Appeals to a Politicized Legal System
In this article, I focus on the narratives of two men, Patrick and Father Marko Mkandla. I ask whether their continued interactions with, and appeals to, Zimbabwe's politicized legal system were 'foolish'. The two men inhabited different geographic regions and diverged in their economic positions, political engagement, and ties to Zimbabwe's human rights networks. They nonetheless both started their accounts by recollecting that they persisted in…
Rotten Row is Rotten to the Core: The Material and Sensory Politics of Harare's Magistrates' Courts after 2000
This article analyzes how state power and authority were established and critiqued through the performative, material, and sensory characteristics of Harare's Criminal Magistrates' Courts in Zimbabwe. Drawing on courtroom observations and interviews conducted with human rights lawyers and their clients between 2010 and 2018, this article shows how Zimbabwe's deteriorating political and economic situation after 2000 caused a decline of the materia…
Performing Power in Zimbabwe: Politics, Law, and the Courts since 2000
Focusing on political trials in Zimbabwe's Magistrates' Courts between 2000 and 2012, Susanne Verheul explores why the judiciary have remained a central site of contestation in post-independence Zimbabwe. Drawing on rich court observations and in-depth interviews, this book foregrounds law's potential to reproduce or transform social and political power through the narrative, material, and sensory dimensions of courtroom performances. Instead of …
From 'Defending Sovereignty' to 'Fighting Corruption: The Political Place of Law in Zimbabwe After November 2017
In this article, I examine the shifting language of debates over law and justice in Zimbabwe in the run-up to, and following, the November 2017 coup. I argue that the rhetoric Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) drew upon to secure its authority and negotiate legitimacy through law, shifted from a focus of 'sovereignty' and 'protection', to one of battling 'corruption' and 'criminality'. At the same time, there remained a co…
States of Feeling: Public Servants’ Affective and Emotional Entanglements in the Making of the State
With the affective turn, scholars pay increased attention to the emotional dimensions of everyday life. This special issue builds on this work through an explicit focus on bureaucracies to show what a more sustained attention to affects and emotions can bring to the study of the state, both as an apparatus and as an image. Contributions highlight the importance of ethnographically studying the affective relations and emotional engagements of publ…
African studies and sociopolitical issues (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Rule of law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · Citizenship (2 works)