Section: Staff Profiles

Sabine Hoehn

Name
Dr Sabine Hoehn
Title
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Organisation
African Studies, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
4.12 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)131 651 3892
E-Mail
URL
http://www.cas.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/sabine_hoehn
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Research

My current research focuses on the relation between global claims to justice and national ideas of sovereignty at the International Criminal Court's investigation of electoral violence in Kenya. International Criminal Justice has become a major form of international intervention in conflict in Africa, but criminal trials regularly challenge states' prerogative to determine what justice is and how to enact it. The research explores how social actors negotiate the meaning of justice, legitimacy, agency, innocence and guilt through the administration of court cases.

 

My previous research concerned the administration of civil society in Namibia, specifically the role of Non-governmental organisations in international development and their role in democracy consolidation and human rights promotion. I was particularly interested in the ways in which NGOs define their role in relation to their donors, to the central government and to recipient communities. I have worked with Namibian development NGOs and  international human rights organisations between 2001 and 2011.

Publications

  • Höhn, S (2010) International Justice and Reconciliation in Namibia: The ICC submission and public memory in: African Affairs doi:10.1093/afraf/adp087
  • Höhn, S (2008) The Failures of Success - NGOs and the decreasing support for civil society in Namibia in: Political Perspectives [Special Issue on Africa] 2008/1
  • Höhn, S (2008) Human Rights Campaigning in Context, Stuttgart: VDM Verlag
  • Höhn, S (2007) NGOs in Namibia-Continuing Crisis or New Beginning? Opinion Paper No 19 Windhoek, Institute for Public Policy Research
  • Höhn, S (2003) Namibia in R. Hofmeier and A. Mehler (eds) Afrika Jahrbuch 2002 Hamburg, Institut für Afrika-Kunde

Research Papers

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