Olaf Zenker

483 total citations
31 papers, 179 citations indexed

About

Olaf Zenker is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Law and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Olaf Zenker has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 179 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 9 papers in Law and 7 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Olaf Zenker's work include Land Rights and Reforms (7 papers), Legal Issues in South Africa (7 papers) and Irish and British Studies (5 papers). Olaf Zenker is often cited by papers focused on Land Rights and Reforms (7 papers), Legal Issues in South Africa (7 papers) and Irish and British Studies (5 papers). Olaf Zenker collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Denmark. Olaf Zenker's co-authors include Gerhard Anders, Steffen Jensen, Boris Nieswand, Veronika Fuest, Günther Schlee, Dereje Feyissa, Markus Virgil Hoehne, Brian Donahoe, Arthur Benz and Ruth Hall and has published in prestigious journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Current Anthropology and Development and Change.

In The Last Decade

Olaf Zenker

24 papers receiving 142 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Olaf Zenker Germany 8 104 49 46 31 21 31 179
Alexandre Kedar Israel 5 118 1.1× 26 0.5× 45 1.0× 13 0.4× 4 0.2× 10 174
Jeff Guy South Africa 9 151 1.5× 90 1.8× 23 0.5× 26 0.8× 4 0.2× 23 217
Iain Robert Smith United Kingdom 8 96 0.9× 57 1.2× 39 0.8× 14 0.5× 3 0.1× 25 185
Diana Jeater United Kingdom 8 120 1.2× 63 1.3× 16 0.3× 4 0.1× 4 0.2× 20 164
Bill Nasson South Africa 8 164 1.6× 64 1.3× 38 0.8× 27 0.9× 1 0.0× 48 232
Stefano Várese United States 7 48 0.5× 59 1.2× 53 1.2× 5 0.2× 6 0.3× 29 177
Christine D. Worobec United States 8 80 0.8× 9 0.2× 91 2.0× 14 0.5× 7 0.3× 25 167
Shaunnagh Dorsett Australia 7 70 0.7× 20 0.4× 50 1.1× 38 1.2× 2 0.1× 30 138
Robert Cancel United States 5 71 0.7× 54 1.1× 24 0.5× 4 0.1× 9 0.4× 17 142
H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen Netherlands 9 63 0.6× 79 1.6× 9 0.2× 2 0.1× 8 0.4× 23 170

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Fields of papers citing papers by Olaf Zenker

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Olaf Zenker

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Olaf Zenker. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Olaf Zenker based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Olaf Zenker. Olaf Zenker is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zenker, Olaf, et al.. (2024). Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Zenker, Olaf. (2022). Irish/ness Is All Around Us. Berghahn Books.
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Zenker, Olaf. (2021). Anthropology and the postliberal challenge. Social Anthropology. 29(2). 370–372.
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Benz, Arthur, et al.. (2020). The Bureaucratic Production of Difference. Kultur und soziale Praxis. 2 indexed citations
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Zenker, Olaf. (2018). Land restitution (old and new), neotraditionalism, and the contested values of land justice in South Africa. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 243–263. 1 indexed citations
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Zenker, Olaf. (2015). De-judicialization, Outsourced Review and All-too-flexible Bureaucracies in South African Land Restitution. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology. 33(1). 5 indexed citations
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Zenker, Olaf. (2015). South African Land Restitution, White Claimants and the Fateful Frontier of Former KwaNdebele. Journal of Southern African Studies. 41(5). 1019–1034. 2 indexed citations
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Zenker, Olaf & Steffen Jensen. (2015). Homelands as frontiers: apartheid’s loose ends. Max Planck Digital Library. 1 indexed citations
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Zenker, Olaf. (2014). New Law against an Old State: Land Restitution as a Transition to Justice in Post‐Apartheid South Africa?. Development and Change. 45(3). 502–523. 6 indexed citations
11.
Zenker, Olaf. (2013). Legal pluralism, communal land tenure and multiple livelihoods in South Africa’s countryside. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 1 indexed citations
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Zenker, Olaf. (2013). IRISH/NESS IS ALL AROUND US. Berghahn Books. 7 indexed citations
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Zenker, Olaf. (2013). Irish/ness Is All Around Us: Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 10 indexed citations
14.
Zenker, Olaf. (2012). On prophets, godfathers, rebels, and prostitutes: distributed agency in the Irish language revival of Northern Ireland. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 137(1). 23–45. 3 indexed citations
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Zenker, Olaf. (2010). The politics of meta-trauma in the Northern Irish conflict. Forschungskolloquium, Department of Anthropology, University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria/Südafrika, 27. Oktober 2010. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 1 indexed citations
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Zenker, Olaf. (2010). Between the lines: Republicanism, dissenters and the politics of meta-trauma in the Northern Irish conflict. Social Science & Medicine. 71(2). 236–243. 4 indexed citations
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Zenker, Olaf, et al.. (2010). Beyond Writing Culture: Current Intersections of Epistemologies and Representational Practices. 19 indexed citations
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Zenker, Olaf. (2008). Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Richard Jenkins: Flag, nation and symbolism in Europe and America. Max Planck Digital Library. 123–124.
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Zenker, Olaf. (2005). De facto exclusion through discursive inclusion : autochthony in discourses on Irishness and politics in Catholic West Belfast. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 4 indexed citations

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