Zoe Marks
Biographic Data
| ID | 223164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zoe Marks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zoe |
| FAMILY NAME | Marks |
| SIGNATURE | MARKS Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
African Popular Protest and Political Change
In the twenty-first century, African countries have hosted more mass movements than any other region in the world. In the last decade, one in every three nonviolent revolutionary campaigns has taken place in Africa. The region also has the highest short-term success rate for people power. But is this success predicated on the mobilizational force of "protest democracy" to hold elites accountable? Or are African social movements' remarkable succes…
Decolonizing knowledge within and beyond the classroom
This introduction to the second installment of a two-part special issue focuses on actors and spaces that facilitate different forms of progress or push-back in decolonizing African Studies. We map how student activists have served as agents of decolonial change on campuses over time, and argue that intersectional and feminist leadership characterize the current generation of activism. We then explore how classrooms and curricula serve as sites o…
Covid-19 and Fieldwork
This reflection article presents insights on conducting fieldwork during and after COVID-19 from a diverse collection of political scientists—from department heads to graduate students based at public and private universities in the United States and abroad. Many of them contributed to a newly published volume, Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science (Krause and Szekely 2020). As in the book, these contributor…
Decolonizing African Studies
In this introduction to the special issue on decolonizing African Studies, we discuss some of the epicolonial dynamics that characterize much of higher education and knowledge production in, of, with, and for Africa. Decolonizing, we argue, is best understood as a verb that entails a political and normative ethic and practice of resistance and intentional undoing – unlearning and dismantling unjust practices, assumptions, and institutions – as we…
Civil wars
David Armitage's new book Civil wars invites us on a structured romp through a historian's playground of ideas. In three parts, he takes us from the Roman genesis of civil war as a phenomenon and phrase, through a dizzying span of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century wars and revolutions in Europe, and into a surprising, legally grounded approach to understanding contemporary civil wars. For scholars of political violence and civil war, Armitage f…
Social network research in Africa
Social network approaches have much to offer for the study of African politics. This research note explores the tensions and benefits of using social networks as metaphor or as method, and highlights the types of questions network research can address. We discuss sources of network data, key features of the graphical perspective and basic vocabulary, and the difference between analyzing individual networks and full systems. Three social network a…
Rebel resource strategies in civil war
Sexual violence as a weapon of war? Perceptions, prescriptions, problems in the Congo and beyondFemale soldiers in Sierra Leone
A wave of research from Africa has heralded, as well as followed, a dramatic increase in attention to war-time sexual violence over the past two decades. Where there was once invisibility in war, women's bodies are now understood as sites of exceptional victimization and violent contestation. The emergent consensus understands rape as a weapon in countries such as Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Addressing these cases…
Sexual violence in Sierra Leone's civil war
Journal Article Sexual violence in Sierra Leone's civil war: 'Virgination', rape, and marriage Get access Zoe Marks Zoe Marks * *Zoe Marks ([email protected]) is a Chancellor's Fellow in the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 113, Issue 450, January 2014, Pages 67–87, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adt070 Published: 16 December …
Sexual Violence Inside Rebellion
Contemporary understandings of rape in wartime emphasise its strategic deployment as a weapon of war. One of the most prominent cases in the discourse has been the Sierra Leone Civil War and its Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group. This article complements the existing literature by examining war-related sexual violence from within the rebel group itself, exploring how sexual violence was used and understood by fighters. Counter-intuitiv…
Decolonizing African Studies
In this introduction to the special issue on decolonizing African Studies, we discuss some of the epicolonial dynamics that characterize much of higher education and knowledge production in, of, with, and for Africa. Decolonizing, we argue, is best understood as a verb that entails a political and normative ethic and practice of resistance and intentional undoing – unlearning and dismantling unjust practices, assumptions, and institutions – as we…
Sexual Violence Inside Rebellion
Contemporary understandings of rape in wartime emphasise its strategic deployment as a weapon of war. One of the most prominent cases in the discourse has been the Sierra Leone Civil War and its Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group. This article complements the existing literature by examining war-related sexual violence from within the rebel group itself, exploring how sexual violence was used and understood by fighters. Counter-intuitiv…
Sexual violence in Sierra Leone's civil war
Journal Article Sexual violence in Sierra Leone's civil war: 'Virgination', rape, and marriage Get access Zoe Marks Zoe Marks * *Zoe Marks ([email protected]) is a Chancellor's Fellow in the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 113, Issue 450, January 2014, Pages 67–87, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adt070 Published: 16 December …
Covid-19 and Fieldwork
This reflection article presents insights on conducting fieldwork during and after COVID-19 from a diverse collection of political scientists—from department heads to graduate students based at public and private universities in the United States and abroad. Many of them contributed to a newly published volume, Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science (Krause and Szekely 2020). As in the book, these contributor…
Social network research in Africa
Social network approaches have much to offer for the study of African politics. This research note explores the tensions and benefits of using social networks as metaphor or as method, and highlights the types of questions network research can address. We discuss sources of network data, key features of the graphical perspective and basic vocabulary, and the difference between analyzing individual networks and full systems. Three social network a…
African Popular Protest and Political Change
In the twenty-first century, African countries have hosted more mass movements than any other region in the world. In the last decade, one in every three nonviolent revolutionary campaigns has taken place in Africa. The region also has the highest short-term success rate for people power. But is this success predicated on the mobilizational force of "protest democracy" to hold elites accountable? Or are African social movements' remarkable succes…
Decolonizing knowledge within and beyond the classroom
This introduction to the second installment of a two-part special issue focuses on actors and spaces that facilitate different forms of progress or push-back in decolonizing African Studies. We map how student activists have served as agents of decolonial change on campuses over time, and argue that intersectional and feminist leadership characterize the current generation of activism. We then explore how classrooms and curricula serve as sites o…
Rebel resource strategies in civil war
Sexual Violence Inside Rebellion
Contemporary understandings of rape in wartime emphasise its strategic deployment as a weapon of war. One of the most prominent cases in the discourse has been the Sierra Leone Civil War and its Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group. This article complements the existing literature by examining war-related sexual violence from within the rebel group itself, exploring how sexual violence was used and understood by fighters. Counter-intuitiv…
Sexual violence in Sierra Leone's civil war
Journal Article Sexual violence in Sierra Leone's civil war: 'Virgination', rape, and marriage Get access Zoe Marks Zoe Marks * *Zoe Marks ([email protected]) is a Chancellor's Fellow in the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 113, Issue 450, January 2014, Pages 67–87, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adt070 Published: 16 December …
Sexual violence as a weapon of war? Perceptions, prescriptions, problems in the Congo and beyondFemale soldiers in Sierra Leone
A wave of research from Africa has heralded, as well as followed, a dramatic increase in attention to war-time sexual violence over the past two decades. Where there was once invisibility in war, women's bodies are now understood as sites of exceptional victimization and violent contestation. The emergent consensus understands rape as a weapon in countries such as Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Addressing these cases…
Civil wars
David Armitage's new book Civil wars invites us on a structured romp through a historian's playground of ideas. In three parts, he takes us from the Roman genesis of civil war as a phenomenon and phrase, through a dizzying span of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century wars and revolutions in Europe, and into a surprising, legally grounded approach to understanding contemporary civil wars. For scholars of political violence and civil war, Armitage f…
Social network research in Africa
Social network approaches have much to offer for the study of African politics. This research note explores the tensions and benefits of using social networks as metaphor or as method, and highlights the types of questions network research can address. We discuss sources of network data, key features of the graphical perspective and basic vocabulary, and the difference between analyzing individual networks and full systems. Three social network a…
Rebel resource strategies in civil war
Decolonizing African Studies
In this introduction to the special issue on decolonizing African Studies, we discuss some of the epicolonial dynamics that characterize much of higher education and knowledge production in, of, with, and for Africa. Decolonizing, we argue, is best understood as a verb that entails a political and normative ethic and practice of resistance and intentional undoing – unlearning and dismantling unjust practices, assumptions, and institutions – as we…
Decolonizing knowledge within and beyond the classroom
This introduction to the second installment of a two-part special issue focuses on actors and spaces that facilitate different forms of progress or push-back in decolonizing African Studies. We map how student activists have served as agents of decolonial change on campuses over time, and argue that intersectional and feminist leadership characterize the current generation of activism. We then explore how classrooms and curricula serve as sites o…
Covid-19 and Fieldwork
This reflection article presents insights on conducting fieldwork during and after COVID-19 from a diverse collection of political scientists—from department heads to graduate students based at public and private universities in the United States and abroad. Many of them contributed to a newly published volume, Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science (Krause and Szekely 2020). As in the book, these contributor…
African Popular Protest and Political Change
In the twenty-first century, African countries have hosted more mass movements than any other region in the world. In the last decade, one in every three nonviolent revolutionary campaigns has taken place in Africa. The region also has the highest short-term success rate for people power. But is this success predicated on the mobilizational force of "protest democracy" to hold elites accountable? Or are African social movements' remarkable succes…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sierra leone (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Spanish Civil War (4 works)