Section: Staff Profiles
Sara Rich Dorman
- Name
- Dr Sara Rich Dorman
- Title
- Lecturer
- Organisation
- Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- 4.08 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
- Telephone
- +44 (0)131 650 4239
- Sara.Dorman@ed.ac.uk
- URL
- http://www.cas.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/dorman_sara_rich
Office Hours:
Monday 12.00-14.00
Qualifications
- BA Honours, Political Science and History Memorial University of Newfoundland
- MPhil Politics, St Antony’s College, Oxford
- DPhil Politics, St Antony’s College, Oxford
Areas of interest
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.
Research related activities
Co-Editor, African Affairs
Editorial Board member, Journal of Southern African Studies
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03057070.asp
Britain Zimbabwe Society & Scotland Zimbabwe Group
http://www.britain-zimbabwe.org.uk
Development Policy Advisory Group Member, SCIAF http://www.sciaf.org.uk/
List Manager, African Politics Listserv afripol-uk@lists.ed.ac.uk.
Publications Include
Sara Dorman, Dan Hammett and Paul Nugent, (eds) "Making Nations, Creating Strangers: States and Citizenship in Africa" http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=18&pid=28238
"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).
"NGOs and State in Zimbabwe: implications for civil society theory" in Bjorn Beckman, Anders Sjogren and Eva Hannsen eds. Civil Society and Authoritarianism in the Third World (Stockholm: PODSU, 2001.)
"NGOs in Zimbabwe" BZS Zimbabwe Review Issue 00/2 May 2000.
"Zimbabwe: Change Now?" World Today Vol. 56, No. 4 April 2000.
"The State of NGOs in Zimbabwe: Honeymoon Over?" Southern Africa Report Vol 12 No. 3, June 1997, pp 17-20.
"Going it Alone: Independent Politicians in Zimbabwe" Southern Africa Report Vol 12 No 4, September 1997, pp. 24-26.
Links to Publications
PhD Supervision
Sara welcomes inquiries from prospective students interested in researching African Politics and the Politics of Development. Current PhD students whom she supervises are conducting research in Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa, Chad, Namibia and Ghana.
This page was published on 27 October 2011