Gerhard Anders
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3640649 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gerhard Anders |
| PRENOMES | Gerhard |
| SOBRENOME | Anders |
| ASSINATURA | ANDERS G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 122 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
A tribute to Keebet
The State in Malawi as Idea and Practice
The contributions to this Special Issue invite us to think beyond failure when studying the state in and of Malawi. As Sam Farrell and Tanja Hendriks point out in the introduction, the description
Corruption and the impact of law enforcement
The article argues that the impact of law enforcement efforts against corruption deserves more scholarly attention. Drawing on a mixed-methods study from Malawi in southern Africa, where a large-scale law enforcement operation has been investigating and prosecuting those involved in a 2013 corruption scandal known as 'Cashgate', the article explores the potential for corruption deterrence from the perspective of government officials in the Malawi…
Governance
Governance has become a key concept in policy making and academic debates across the social sciences. While no agreed definition exists, many authors associate governance with new processes of governing that transcend the nation‐state. The concept is generally associated with reconfigurations in the exercise of authority and influence; from state to private actors, from formal to informal institutions, from the national to the transnational spher…
Corruption and the Secret of Law
This chapter discusses the current prominence of corruption in academic literature and international policy circles. It presents an overview of dominant social-scientific approaches and their limitations, arguing for an anthropological perspective. The chapter argues that the current debate about corruption is shaped by the division between the state and society and a corresponding public-private dichotomy. It further argues that the study of cor…
Corruption and the Secret of Law
Migrants, Settlers and Refugees
This chapter collapses the common juxtaposition of local place and global space by drawing on ethnographic evidence gathered at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. It argues that in spite of its apparent universality and remoteness from local concerns, international criminal justice, as global legal order in general, is made and instantiated in particular places ranging from boardrooms in New York and Washington to the tribunals in The Hague, Aru…
Transition and Justice
The normativity of numbers in practice
Contemporary technologies of governing employed in international development rely on the normativity of numbers, and their use of numbers and collection, as conditions for financial support by international financial institutions. This article examines how the normativity of numbers worked in practice during the implementation of civil service reform in Malawi. It reveals a contradiction between the lofty rhetoric of greater efficiency and transp…
Transition and Justice
Since the end of the Cold War, political new beginnings have increasingly been linked to questions of transitional justice.Africa is no exception.Since the establishment of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda during the mid-1990s, the African continent has loomed large in academic and political debates about how to deal with past injustices and realize political transition.The c…
Law at its limits
The social-scientific study of law is a heterogeneous, interdisciplinary field where social scientists and legal scholars come together. Whilst sharing a keen interest in the law as social fact, both shaping and being shaped by ideas and behaviour, they do so drawing on different epistemological and methodological foundations. Especially, between legal studies and socio-cultural anthropology, there seems to be a divide in terms of research questi…
Transition and Justice
"This book examines a series of cases where peaceful 'new beginnings' have been declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions played a role in defining justice and the new socio-political order"
Transition and Justice
Since the end of the Cold War, political new beginnings have increasingly been linked to questions of transitional justice. The contributions to this collection examine a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful ‘new beginnings’ have been declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions played a role in defining justice and the new socio‐political order. Three issues seem to be crucial to the …
Transitional Justice, States of Emergency and Business as Usual in Sierra Leone
This article situates the establishment of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in the wider context of the country's transitional period between 1999 and 2004. During this pivotal period, Sierra Leone experienced a massive state-building intervention to establish the rule of law and introduce democracy. However, this new beginning was characterized by violent clashes between the leaders of the various warring factions who tried to secure political…
Contesting expertise
This article examines how social anthropologists' expertise was employed in the international war crimes trials heard at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. It tracks how the anthropologists challenged the prosecution experts by raising concerns about their methodology and advancing a fundamental critique of abstract legal categories. The discussion between the experts centred on two contested issues: the character of the armed groups and the phe…
Bigmanity and international criminal justice in Sierra Leone
Culture under Cross-Examination
A small but growing body of social-scientific literature has been subjecting the project of international criminal justice to critical scrutiny. One of these studies is Tim Kelsall's Culture under Cross-Examination, a detailed in-depth analysis of the trials heard before the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown between 2004 and 2008. Kelsall's analysis focuses on the trial of three leaders of the Civil Defence Forces (CDF), a pro-government…
African conflicts and informal power
In the aftermath of an armed conflict in Africa, the international community both produces and demands from local partners a variety of blueprints for reconstructing state and society. The aim is to re-formalize the state after what is viewed as a period of fragmentation. In reality, African economies and polities are very much informal in character, with informal actors, including so-called Big Men, often using their positions in the formal stru…
Domesticating vigilantism in Africa by Kirsch, Thomas and Tilo Grätz
Testifying about ‘Uncivilized Events’
The article presents an anthropological analysis of witness testimony about ritual murder, cannibalism, and secret societies in the trial against Charles Taylor in The Hague. In the first part, a comprehensive in-depth analysis of the testimony of one prosecution witness serves as a case study to illustrate the difficulties of assessing the veracity of witness statements on alleged atrocities linked to African religious and spiritual beliefs. The…
In the Shadow of Good Governance
In the Shadow of Good Governance traces the implementation of the good governance agenda in Malawi from the loan documents signed by the representatives of the government and the Brettown Woods institutions to the individual experiences of civil servants who responded in unforeseen ways to the reform measures. Ethnographic evidence gathered in government offices, neighbourhoods and the private homes of civil servants living in Malawi's urban and …
In the shadow of good governance
Entries
The Normativity of Numbers
Good governance reforms aim at transforming African state bureaucracies into efficient, transparent, and accountable institutions. These policies are inserted into the national administrative apparatus by means of conditions attached to the financial support of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Although the conditions exactly match the priorities of these international financial institutions (IFIs), they are not set by the…
Fiscal Disobedience
African conflicts and informal power
In the aftermath of an armed conflict in Africa, the international community both produces and demands from local partners a variety of blueprints for reconstructing state and society. The aim is to re-formalize the state after what is viewed as a period of fragmentation. In reality, African economies and polities are very much informal in character, with informal actors, including so-called Big Men, often using their positions in the formal stru…
The Normativity of Numbers
Good governance reforms aim at transforming African state bureaucracies into efficient, transparent, and accountable institutions. These policies are inserted into the national administrative apparatus by means of conditions attached to the financial support of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Although the conditions exactly match the priorities of these international financial institutions (IFIs), they are not set by the…
Like chameleons. Civil servants and corruption in Malawi
The making of rules and social and symbolic order is a human industry matched only by the manipulation, circumvention, remaking, replacing, and unmaking of rules in which people seem almost equally engaged." Sally Falk Moore "To effectively combat corruption in Malawi to attain a corruption‐free environment for good governance and development for the benefit for ail the people of Malawi" Mission statement of the Anti‐Corruption Bureau. "In the ci…
Testifying about ‘Uncivilized Events’
The article presents an anthropological analysis of witness testimony about ritual murder, cannibalism, and secret societies in the trial against Charles Taylor in The Hague. In the first part, a comprehensive in-depth analysis of the testimony of one prosecution witness serves as a case study to illustrate the difficulties of assessing the veracity of witness statements on alleged atrocities linked to African religious and spiritual beliefs. The…
Contesting expertise
This article examines how social anthropologists' expertise was employed in the international war crimes trials heard at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. It tracks how the anthropologists challenged the prosecution experts by raising concerns about their methodology and advancing a fundamental critique of abstract legal categories. The discussion between the experts centred on two contested issues: the character of the armed groups and the phe…
Culture under Cross-Examination
A small but growing body of social-scientific literature has been subjecting the project of international criminal justice to critical scrutiny. One of these studies is Tim Kelsall's Culture under Cross-Examination, a detailed in-depth analysis of the trials heard before the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown between 2004 and 2008. Kelsall's analysis focuses on the trial of three leaders of the Civil Defence Forces (CDF), a pro-government…
Redimensionner la fonction publique au Malawi
Resizing the Civil Service in Malawi: International Organization Guidelines and Administrative Realities The reduction in the number of government employees is the direct consequence of programs devised by IFI (international financial institution) experts aiming to reorganize the public sector according to World Bank and IMF guidelines. However, far from altering the underlying dynamics and structures of the civil service, the reforms undertaken …
Follow the Trial
Transitional Justice, States of Emergency and Business as Usual in Sierra Leone
This article situates the establishment of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in the wider context of the country's transitional period between 1999 and 2004. During this pivotal period, Sierra Leone experienced a massive state-building intervention to establish the rule of law and introduce democracy. However, this new beginning was characterized by violent clashes between the leaders of the various warring factions who tried to secure political…
Like chameleons. Civil servants and corruption in Malawi
The making of rules and social and symbolic order is a human industry matched only by the manipulation, circumvention, remaking, replacing, and unmaking of rules in which people seem almost equally engaged." Sally Falk Moore "To effectively combat corruption in Malawi to attain a corruption‐free environment for good governance and development for the benefit for ail the people of Malawi" Mission statement of the Anti‐Corruption Bureau. "In the ci…
Redimensionner la fonction publique au Malawi
Resizing the Civil Service in Malawi: International Organization Guidelines and Administrative Realities The reduction in the number of government employees is the direct consequence of programs devised by IFI (international financial institution) experts aiming to reorganize the public sector according to World Bank and IMF guidelines. However, far from altering the underlying dynamics and structures of the civil service, the reforms undertaken …
Follow the Trial
The Normativity of Numbers
Good governance reforms aim at transforming African state bureaucracies into efficient, transparent, and accountable institutions. These policies are inserted into the national administrative apparatus by means of conditions attached to the financial support of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Although the conditions exactly match the priorities of these international financial institutions (IFIs), they are not set by the…
Fiscal Disobedience
Entries
In the Shadow of Good Governance
In the Shadow of Good Governance traces the implementation of the good governance agenda in Malawi from the loan documents signed by the representatives of the government and the Brettown Woods institutions to the individual experiences of civil servants who responded in unforeseen ways to the reform measures. Ethnographic evidence gathered in government offices, neighbourhoods and the private homes of civil servants living in Malawi's urban and …
In the shadow of good governance
Testifying about ‘Uncivilized Events’
The article presents an anthropological analysis of witness testimony about ritual murder, cannibalism, and secret societies in the trial against Charles Taylor in The Hague. In the first part, a comprehensive in-depth analysis of the testimony of one prosecution witness serves as a case study to illustrate the difficulties of assessing the veracity of witness statements on alleged atrocities linked to African religious and spiritual beliefs. The…
Bigmanity and international criminal justice in Sierra Leone
Culture under Cross-Examination
A small but growing body of social-scientific literature has been subjecting the project of international criminal justice to critical scrutiny. One of these studies is Tim Kelsall's Culture under Cross-Examination, a detailed in-depth analysis of the trials heard before the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown between 2004 and 2008. Kelsall's analysis focuses on the trial of three leaders of the Civil Defence Forces (CDF), a pro-government…
African conflicts and informal power
In the aftermath of an armed conflict in Africa, the international community both produces and demands from local partners a variety of blueprints for reconstructing state and society. The aim is to re-formalize the state after what is viewed as a period of fragmentation. In reality, African economies and polities are very much informal in character, with informal actors, including so-called Big Men, often using their positions in the formal stru…
Domesticating vigilantism in Africa by Kirsch, Thomas and Tilo Grätz
Transition and Justice
"This book examines a series of cases where peaceful 'new beginnings' have been declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions played a role in defining justice and the new socio-political order"
Transition and Justice
Since the end of the Cold War, political new beginnings have increasingly been linked to questions of transitional justice. The contributions to this collection examine a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful ‘new beginnings’ have been declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions played a role in defining justice and the new socio‐political order. Three issues seem to be crucial to the …
Transitional Justice, States of Emergency and Business as Usual in Sierra Leone
This article situates the establishment of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in the wider context of the country's transitional period between 1999 and 2004. During this pivotal period, Sierra Leone experienced a massive state-building intervention to establish the rule of law and introduce democracy. However, this new beginning was characterized by violent clashes between the leaders of the various warring factions who tried to secure political…
Contesting expertise
This article examines how social anthropologists' expertise was employed in the international war crimes trials heard at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. It tracks how the anthropologists challenged the prosecution experts by raising concerns about their methodology and advancing a fundamental critique of abstract legal categories. The discussion between the experts centred on two contested issues: the character of the armed groups and the phe…
Transition and Justice
The normativity of numbers in practice
Contemporary technologies of governing employed in international development rely on the normativity of numbers, and their use of numbers and collection, as conditions for financial support by international financial institutions. This article examines how the normativity of numbers worked in practice during the implementation of civil service reform in Malawi. It reveals a contradiction between the lofty rhetoric of greater efficiency and transp…
Transition and Justice
Since the end of the Cold War, political new beginnings have increasingly been linked to questions of transitional justice.Africa is no exception.Since the establishment of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda during the mid-1990s, the African continent has loomed large in academic and political debates about how to deal with past injustices and realize political transition.The c…
Law at its limits
The social-scientific study of law is a heterogeneous, interdisciplinary field where social scientists and legal scholars come together. Whilst sharing a keen interest in the law as social fact, both shaping and being shaped by ideas and behaviour, they do so drawing on different epistemological and methodological foundations. Especially, between legal studies and socio-cultural anthropology, there seems to be a divide in terms of research questi…
Migrants, Settlers and Refugees
This chapter collapses the common juxtaposition of local place and global space by drawing on ethnographic evidence gathered at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. It argues that in spite of its apparent universality and remoteness from local concerns, international criminal justice, as global legal order in general, is made and instantiated in particular places ranging from boardrooms in New York and Washington to the tribunals in The Hague, Aru…
Corruption and the Secret of Law
This chapter discusses the current prominence of corruption in academic literature and international policy circles. It presents an overview of dominant social-scientific approaches and their limitations, arguing for an anthropological perspective. The chapter argues that the current debate about corruption is shaped by the division between the state and society and a corresponding public-private dichotomy. It further argues that the study of cor…
Corruption and the Secret of Law
Governance
Governance has become a key concept in policy making and academic debates across the social sciences. While no agreed definition exists, many authors associate governance with new processes of governing that transcend the nation‐state. The concept is generally associated with reconfigurations in the exercise of authority and influence; from state to private actors, from formal to informal institutions, from the national to the transnational spher…
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