Elizabeth Holzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 229790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Holzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Holzer |
| SIGNATURE | HOLZER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3330-6589 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Excluding themselves from development? Carework as a discursive resource for women farmers in Ethiopia
Developmental states see a vital role for women in development, but women do not always share the state's enthusiasm. In development circles, this is still treated largely as a problem to fix, so how women make sense of their own participation in development projects is a crucial understudied question. Drawing on 24 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 50 semi-structured interviews, we use the case of community development meetings in rural Ethio…
Technology Transfer and Everyday Life among Smallholder Farmers: Notes on the Small Inconveniences that Slow the Transition to Industrial Agriculture in Ethiopia
Global technology transfers reshape agriculture with profound influences on everyday life. Substantial research has documented broader constraints that influence technology transfer among farmers, yet existing theories give us a narrow view into how wider dynamics manifest in everyday life. Using tractor farming in Ethiopia as a case study with ethnographic and historical data, we contribute an account of the everyday social and ecological intera…
Unobtrusively Stretching Law: Legal Education, Activism, and Reclaiming Title IX
We often understate the work that activists put into crafting movement tools. This article examines the space between legal texts and movement resources in a study of early activism surrounding Title IX. Though often hailed as a feminist law, the Title IX statute and regulations lay out a narrow set of individual rights and incorporate several conservative principles. In an analysis of early social movement mobilization surrounding Title IX by th…
The concerned women of Buduburam: Refugee Activists and Humanitarian Dilemmas
Humanitarian spectacles from below: A study of social connections in unsettled contexts
Humanitarian actors struggle to protect refugees from the violence of war, but critics argue that they often succeed in nothing more than segregating the displaced and turning their hardships into global public spectacles. This article narrows and refines these criticisms of contemporary humanitarian action by examining humanitarian spectacles at a local level in an ethnography of the Buduburam Refugee Camp, a predominantly Liberian refugee camp …
How Does Community Participation Work? Human Rights and the Hidden Labour of Interstitial Elites in Ghana
Journal Article How Does Community Participation Work? Human Rights and the Hidden Labour of Interstitial Elites in Ghana Get access Catherine Buerger, Catherine Buerger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elizabeth Holzer Elizabeth Holzer * *Catherine Buerger ([email protected]) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. Elizabeth Holzer (elizabeth.holzer@…
Humanitarian Crisis as Everyday Life
Contemporary scholarship understates the resilience of everyday life in humanitarian crisis. Disaster may seem like a fleeting moment—colloquially, we say “the world stood still” or “everything changed in a blink”—but in the Buduburam Refugee Camp, a predominately Liberian refugee camp in Ghana, people experienced calamitous tragedy accumulated over years of daily activities. Though they remained politically and economically “out of place,” resid…
What Happens to Law in a Refugee Camp
How do people living in a refugee camp engage with legal practices, discourses, and institutions? Critics argue that refugee camps leave people in "legal limbo" depriving them of the "right to have rights" despite the presence of international humanitarian actors and the entitlements enshrined in international law. For that reason, refugee camps have become a highly visible symbol of failed human rights campaigns. In contrast, I found in an ethno…
A Case Study of Political Failure in a Refugee Camp
This article analyses political breakdown in a refugee camp with a case study of the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana. The analysis focuses on a series of social protests by Liberian refugees that prompted the intervention of host police and ended with the hostile repatriation of thousands of people back to Liberia. I argue that the transformation of the social protests into ‘criminal acts’ subject to police action constituted a political breakdow…
"Borrowing from the Women's Movement "for Reasons of Public Security: A Study of Social Movement Outcomes and Judicial Activism in the European Union
Can an elite-sponsored outcome be a social movement outcome? In Kreil v. Germany, the European Court of Justice issued a judgment hailed as a feminist victory, censuring Germany's exclusion of women from the military. But the women's movement did not sponsor the case; it was an organizational achievement for the nascent court that extended its jurisdiction to public security while preserving its legitimacy among potentially non-cooperative member…
What Happens to Law in a Refugee Camp
How do people living in a refugee camp engage with legal practices, discourses, and institutions? Critics argue that refugee camps leave people in "legal limbo" depriving them of the "right to have rights" despite the presence of international humanitarian actors and the entitlements enshrined in international law. For that reason, refugee camps have become a highly visible symbol of failed human rights campaigns. In contrast, I found in an ethno…
A Case Study of Political Failure in a Refugee Camp
This article analyses political breakdown in a refugee camp with a case study of the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana. The analysis focuses on a series of social protests by Liberian refugees that prompted the intervention of host police and ended with the hostile repatriation of thousands of people back to Liberia. I argue that the transformation of the social protests into ‘criminal acts’ subject to police action constituted a political breakdow…
Humanitarian Crisis as Everyday Life
Contemporary scholarship understates the resilience of everyday life in humanitarian crisis. Disaster may seem like a fleeting moment—colloquially, we say “the world stood still” or “everything changed in a blink”—but in the Buduburam Refugee Camp, a predominately Liberian refugee camp in Ghana, people experienced calamitous tragedy accumulated over years of daily activities. Though they remained politically and economically “out of place,” resid…
"Borrowing from the Women's Movement "for Reasons of Public Security: A Study of Social Movement Outcomes and Judicial Activism in the European Union
Can an elite-sponsored outcome be a social movement outcome? In Kreil v. Germany, the European Court of Justice issued a judgment hailed as a feminist victory, censuring Germany's exclusion of women from the military. But the women's movement did not sponsor the case; it was an organizational achievement for the nascent court that extended its jurisdiction to public security while preserving its legitimacy among potentially non-cooperative member…
Humanitarian spectacles from below: A study of social connections in unsettled contexts
Humanitarian actors struggle to protect refugees from the violence of war, but critics argue that they often succeed in nothing more than segregating the displaced and turning their hardships into global public spectacles. This article narrows and refines these criticisms of contemporary humanitarian action by examining humanitarian spectacles at a local level in an ethnography of the Buduburam Refugee Camp, a predominantly Liberian refugee camp …
Unobtrusively Stretching Law: Legal Education, Activism, and Reclaiming Title IX
We often understate the work that activists put into crafting movement tools. This article examines the space between legal texts and movement resources in a study of early activism surrounding Title IX. Though often hailed as a feminist law, the Title IX statute and regulations lay out a narrow set of individual rights and incorporate several conservative principles. In an analysis of early social movement mobilization surrounding Title IX by th…
How Does Community Participation Work? Human Rights and the Hidden Labour of Interstitial Elites in Ghana
Journal Article How Does Community Participation Work? Human Rights and the Hidden Labour of Interstitial Elites in Ghana Get access Catherine Buerger, Catherine Buerger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elizabeth Holzer Elizabeth Holzer * *Catherine Buerger ([email protected]) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. Elizabeth Holzer (elizabeth.holzer@…
"Borrowing from the Women's Movement "for Reasons of Public Security: A Study of Social Movement Outcomes and Judicial Activism in the European Union
Can an elite-sponsored outcome be a social movement outcome? In Kreil v. Germany, the European Court of Justice issued a judgment hailed as a feminist victory, censuring Germany's exclusion of women from the military. But the women's movement did not sponsor the case; it was an organizational achievement for the nascent court that extended its jurisdiction to public security while preserving its legitimacy among potentially non-cooperative member…
A Case Study of Political Failure in a Refugee Camp
This article analyses political breakdown in a refugee camp with a case study of the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana. The analysis focuses on a series of social protests by Liberian refugees that prompted the intervention of host police and ended with the hostile repatriation of thousands of people back to Liberia. I argue that the transformation of the social protests into ‘criminal acts’ subject to police action constituted a political breakdow…
What Happens to Law in a Refugee Camp
How do people living in a refugee camp engage with legal practices, discourses, and institutions? Critics argue that refugee camps leave people in "legal limbo" depriving them of the "right to have rights" despite the presence of international humanitarian actors and the entitlements enshrined in international law. For that reason, refugee camps have become a highly visible symbol of failed human rights campaigns. In contrast, I found in an ethno…
How Does Community Participation Work? Human Rights and the Hidden Labour of Interstitial Elites in Ghana
Journal Article How Does Community Participation Work? Human Rights and the Hidden Labour of Interstitial Elites in Ghana Get access Catherine Buerger, Catherine Buerger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elizabeth Holzer Elizabeth Holzer * *Catherine Buerger ([email protected]) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. Elizabeth Holzer (elizabeth.holzer@…
Humanitarian Crisis as Everyday Life
Contemporary scholarship understates the resilience of everyday life in humanitarian crisis. Disaster may seem like a fleeting moment—colloquially, we say “the world stood still” or “everything changed in a blink”—but in the Buduburam Refugee Camp, a predominately Liberian refugee camp in Ghana, people experienced calamitous tragedy accumulated over years of daily activities. Though they remained politically and economically “out of place,” resid…
The concerned women of Buduburam: Refugee Activists and Humanitarian Dilemmas
Humanitarian spectacles from below: A study of social connections in unsettled contexts
Humanitarian actors struggle to protect refugees from the violence of war, but critics argue that they often succeed in nothing more than segregating the displaced and turning their hardships into global public spectacles. This article narrows and refines these criticisms of contemporary humanitarian action by examining humanitarian spectacles at a local level in an ethnography of the Buduburam Refugee Camp, a predominantly Liberian refugee camp …
Unobtrusively Stretching Law: Legal Education, Activism, and Reclaiming Title IX
We often understate the work that activists put into crafting movement tools. This article examines the space between legal texts and movement resources in a study of early activism surrounding Title IX. Though often hailed as a feminist law, the Title IX statute and regulations lay out a narrow set of individual rights and incorporate several conservative principles. In an analysis of early social movement mobilization surrounding Title IX by th…
Technology Transfer and Everyday Life among Smallholder Farmers: Notes on the Small Inconveniences that Slow the Transition to Industrial Agriculture in Ethiopia
Global technology transfers reshape agriculture with profound influences on everyday life. Substantial research has documented broader constraints that influence technology transfer among farmers, yet existing theories give us a narrow view into how wider dynamics manifest in everyday life. Using tractor farming in Ethiopia as a case study with ethnographic and historical data, we contribute an account of the everyday social and ecological intera…
Excluding themselves from development? Carework as a discursive resource for women farmers in Ethiopia
Developmental states see a vital role for women in development, but women do not always share the state's enthusiasm. In development circles, this is still treated largely as a problem to fix, so how women make sense of their own participation in development projects is a crucial understudied question. Drawing on 24 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 50 semi-structured interviews, we use the case of community development meetings in rural Ethio…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Refugee (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (3 works)