All Outputs (53)

From War To Peace As Conflict Goes On: Displacement And State Making During South Sudan’s 2013-2020 Conflict (2024)
Thesis
Inverso, C. From War To Peace As Conflict Goes On: Displacement And State Making During South Sudan’s 2013-2020 Conflict. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This dissertation is the result of a qualitative and multi-site research carried out between August 2019 and February 2020, that addresses the 2013-2020 South Sudanese civil war and the displacement which caused a quarter of South Sudan’s population... Read More about From War To Peace As Conflict Goes On: Displacement And State Making During South Sudan’s 2013-2020 Conflict.

An Island of peace in an ocean of turbulence? The case of Land Guards in Ghana (2024)
Thesis
Adusei, L. A. An Island of peace in an ocean of turbulence? The case of Land Guards in Ghana. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This dissertation is about security governance and land governance particularly land guards, landguardism and associated security in Ghana. Its central argument is that land guards and landguardism threaten Ghana’s stability, peace, security and deve... Read More about An Island of peace in an ocean of turbulence? The case of Land Guards in Ghana.

The Constructions of the State, Violence and Political Settlement in South Sudan (2022)
Thesis
Bimeny, P. The Constructions of the State, Violence and Political Settlement in South Sudan. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In December 2013, only two years into independence, South Sudan degenerated into civil war following disagreements within the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) leadership. A subsequent Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South S... Read More about The Constructions of the State, Violence and Political Settlement in South Sudan.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo. Recent History (2021)
Book Chapter
Marriage, Z. (2021). The Democratic Republic of the Congo. Recent History. In I. Frame (Ed.), Africa South of the Sahara 2022. 51st edition (287-292). Routledge

Cultural Resistance and Security from Below. Power and escape through capoeira (vlog) (2020)
Digital Artefact
Marriage, Z. Cultural Resistance and Security from Below. Power and escape through capoeira (vlog)

Plunder and Resistance in the Congo (2019)
Digital Artefact
Marriage, Z. (2019). Plunder and Resistance in the Congo

One year ago, in December 2018, the Democratic Republic of Congo went to the polls after a delay of two years. The election saw president Joseph Kabila cede office to his opponent Felix Tshisekedi in a shift that was widely interpreted to be a compro... Read More about Plunder and Resistance in the Congo.

Cultural Resistance and Security from Below: Power and Escape through Capoeira (2019)
Book
Marriage, Z. (2019). Cultural Resistance and Security from Below: Power and Escape through Capoeira. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429399282

This book uses the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira to examine how security has been pursued from below and what significance this has for security analysis and policy. Illegal at the beginning of the twentieth century, capoeira is now a cultural insti... Read More about Cultural Resistance and Security from Below: Power and Escape through Capoeira.

Bringing justice to the people: examining international assistance to the DR Congo's judiciary and its impact on sexual violence crimes and gender power relations in north Kivu (2019)
Thesis
Sahin, B. Bringing justice to the people: examining international assistance to the DR Congo's judiciary and its impact on sexual violence crimes and gender power relations in north Kivu. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The pretend guns of realism and the reality of resistance (2018)
Digital Artefact
Marriage, Z. (2018). The pretend guns of realism and the reality of resistance

Dr Zoë Marriage argues that Jair Bolsonaro’s victory in Brazil’s recent elections hinges on a political rhetoric that legitimises anger and violence. This is symbolised in the fatal stabbing of a leading capoeirista on the first night of the electio... Read More about The pretend guns of realism and the reality of resistance.

The Elephant in the Room: Off-shore companies, liberalisation and extension of presidential power in DR Congo (2018)
Journal Article
Marriage, Z. (2018). The Elephant in the Room: Off-shore companies, liberalisation and extension of presidential power in DR Congo. Third World Quarterly, 39(5), 889-905. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2018.1447373

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, donors promoted rapid liberalisation and presidential elections in the aftermath of the war, and after two terms, President Kabila has not left office. This article engages with the question of how liberalisation... Read More about The Elephant in the Room: Off-shore companies, liberalisation and extension of presidential power in DR Congo.

Public services and social cohesion at risk? : the political economy of democratic decentralisation in post-war Sierra Leone (2004-2014) (2018)
Thesis
Tarawallie, I. M. Public services and social cohesion at risk? : the political economy of democratic decentralisation in post-war Sierra Leone (2004-2014). (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Beyond the street : gang entry and exit on the Cape flats (2018)
Thesis
Dziewanski, D. Beyond the street : gang entry and exit on the Cape flats. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Evading biopolitical control: Capoeira as total resistance (2017)
Journal Article
Marriage, Z. (2017). Evading biopolitical control: Capoeira as total resistance. Global Society, 32(3), 263-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2017.1417237

Conflict and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016)
Book Chapter
Marriage, Z. (2016). Conflict and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In G. Hooks (Ed.), Sociology of Development Handbook. University of California Press

Peace and the Killing: Compatible Logics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2016)
Book Chapter
Marriage, Z. (2016). Peace and the Killing: Compatible Logics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In C. Anderton, & J. Brauer (Eds.), Economic Aspects of Genocide, Mass Killing, and Their Prevention (356-377). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199378296.003.0016

The trade of mineral resources contributed to the mechanisms of mass killing in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the war that started in 1998. The peace agreed in 2002 moved to reverse the economic logic of the violence by incentivizing bellig... Read More about Peace and the Killing: Compatible Logics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Aid to Rwanda: Unstoppable Rock, Immovable Post (2016)
Book Chapter
Marriage, Z. (2016). Aid to Rwanda: Unstoppable Rock, Immovable Post. In T. Hagmann, & R. Filip (Eds.), Aid and authoritarianism in Africa. Development without democracy (44-66). Nordiska Afrikainstitutet

A core tenet of contemporary aid is that development, democracy and security reinforce each other. This tenet is often explicit in policy designed for countries that have experienced violent conflict and in which there is widespread destitution and d... Read More about Aid to Rwanda: Unstoppable Rock, Immovable Post.

Building citizens : demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration (DDR) process in Colombia, 2002-2010 (2016)
Thesis
Carranza Franco, F. Building citizens : demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration (DDR) process in Colombia, 2002-2010. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The Democratic Republic of Congo (2015)
Book Chapter
Marriage, Z. (2015). The Democratic Republic of Congo. In I. Frame (Ed.), Africa South of the Sahara 2016 (45th edition). Routledge

Since the conference of Berlin in 1884 when the boundaries on African countries were formalised by the European colonisers, the politics of powerful nations have heavily influenced events in Congo. Towards the end of the 20th century and into the 21s... Read More about The Democratic Republic of Congo.

"Grande Mestre": Longing and celebration in Capoeira Angola (Brazil) (2015)
Book Chapter
Marriage, Z. (2015). "Grande Mestre": Longing and celebration in Capoeira Angola (Brazil). In R. Harris, & R. Pease (Eds.), Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures. Routledge

This recording opens with a melancholy solo song about being enslaved and forcibly transported to Brazil. It then passes through a praise section in which the chorus joins in, before moving to the more up-beat call-and-response songs that accompany t... Read More about "Grande Mestre": Longing and celebration in Capoeira Angola (Brazil).

The Democratic Republic of Congo (2014)
Book Chapter
Marriage, Z. (2014). The Democratic Republic of Congo. In I. Frame (Ed.), Africa South of the Sahara 2015 (44th edition). Routledge

Since the conference of Berlin in 1884 when the boundaries on African countries were formalised by the European colonisers, the politics of powerful nations have heavily influenced events in Congo. Towards the end of the 20th century and into the 21s... Read More about The Democratic Republic of Congo.