l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Lecturer (Politics and International Relations)

University of Edinburgh, UK

sara.dorman@ed.ac.uk

School of Social and Political Studies
Chrystal MacMillan Building
15 A George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LD
UK

phone: 0131 650 4239
fax: 0131 650 6546

Zimbabwe ; Eritrea

African Politics, with an emphasis on post-liberation states: Zimbabwe and
Eritrea. The politics of NGOs, churches, elections, election-observing,
and state-society relations. The politics of nationalism, nation and
state-building in Africa, especially in the Horn of Africa and Southern
Africa. See also: http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/african_politics

African Politics Research Group: http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/african_politics

Publications: http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk

African Affairs: http://www.afraf.oxfordjournals.org

Recent publications:

Sara Dorman, Dan Hammett and Paul Nugent, (eds) "Making Nations, Creating
Strangers: States and Citizenship in Africa" (Brill, Leiden 2007)
http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=18&pid=28238

Sara Rich Dorman, "Post-liberation Politics in Africa: examining the
political legacy of struggle," Third World Quarterly, vol. 27, No. 6.
(2006), pp.1085-1101.

"Studying Democratization in Africa: A Case Study of Human Rights NGOs in
Zimbabwe" in Between a Rock and a Hard Place, African NGOs, Donors, and
the State, Tim Kelsall and Jim Igoe, eds. Carolina Academic Press 2005, pp
33-59.

"'Make sure they count nicely this time': The Politics of Elections and
Election-observing in Zimbabwe," Commonwealth and Comparative Politics,
43.1 June 2005.

"Narratives of nationalism in Eritrea: research and revisionism," Nations
and Nationalism 11.2, March 2005, pp 203-222.

"Past the Kalashnikov: Youth, Politics and the State in Eritrea", J.
Abbink & I. van Kessel, eds., Vanguard or Vandals? Youth, Politics and
Conflict in Africa. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004, pp 189-204.

"From the Politics of Inclusion to the Politics of Exclusion: State and
Society in Zimbabwe, 1997-2000," Journal of Southern African Studies.
Volume 29, Number 4 December 2003.

"Rocking the Boat? Church NGOs and Democratization in Zimbabwe," African
Affairs 101 (2002).

African poiltics ; post-liberation states ; NGOs ; religion ; nationalism ; state-building.