rirhandu.mageza-barthel

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Dr.
Rirhandu
Mageza-Barthel
r.mageza@soz.uni-frankfurt.de

Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel is a political scientist whose expertise spans the field of gender politics in the global South. Prior to joining AFRASO, she was a Research Associate for Gender and Postcolonial Studies and a Doctoral Fellow of the DFG-Research Training Group “Public Spheres and Gender Relations. Dimensions of Experience”. She was also a Guest Researcher at the Primedia Chair for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Next to the countries analyzed within the AFRASO project, she has also worked extensively on (gender) politics in South Africa and Rwanda.

Rirhandu received her doctoral degree in Political Science from Frankfurt University. Her dissertation analyzed the topic “Women’s Stake and the United Nations’ Gender Norms in Rwanda’s Post-Genocide Transformation Process”. She completed her graduate and undergraduate studies at the Universities of Cape Town, Rotterdam and Frankfurt.

Institut: 

Political Science

Abteilung: 

Juridicum, Room 858

Straße + Hausnummer: 

Senckenberganlage 31 (HPF 21)

PLZ: 

60325

Stadt: 

Frankfurt

Land: 

Germany

Tel.: 

+49 -69-798-25403

Webseiten: 

My Website at the Institute for Political Science

AFRASO Projekte: 

S2-C: New Approaches to Transnational Gender Politics: Chinese-African Collaboration

AFRASO Publications: 

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Talks / Lectures: 

Mageza-Barthel, Rirhandu ; 2014 ; 'Beijing Created a War between the Sexes' – Transnational Gender Politics in Rwanda after '94 ; S2-C: New Approaches to Transnational Gender Politics: Chinese-African Collaboration, S2-C: Neue Ansätze transnationaler Geschlechterpolitik: Chinesisch-Afrikanische Kooperationen ; Afrika-Kolloquium des Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften ; HU Berlin

Seiten

Publikationen: 

Monograph

2015. Mobilizing Transnational Gender Politics in Post-Genocide Rwanda (Gender in a Global/Local World Series) Farnham/Burlington: Ashgate.

Edited Books

2016. Negotiating Normativity: Postcolonial Appropriations, Contestations and Transformations (edited jointly with Nikita Dhawan, Elisabeth Fink & Johanna Leinius). New York: Springer US.

Book Chapters and Journal Articles

in preparation. ‘From Sisterhood to Friendship: African Women’s Movements in Chinese-African Relations’, African East-Asian Affairs.

2016. 'Normative Legitimacy and Normative Dilemmas: Postcolonial Interventions', in Nikita Dhawan, Elisabeth Fink, Johanna Leinius and Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel (eds) Negotiating Normativity: Postcolonial Appropriations, Contestations and Transformations. New York: Springer. (jointly with Nikita Dhawan, Elisabeth Fink & Johanna Leinius)

2016. ‘Geschlechtergerechtigkeit unter postkolonialen und post-konflikt Bedingungen?’, in Aram Ziai (ed) Postkoloniale Politikwissenschaft. Theoretische und empirische Zugänge. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.

2016. ‘Beyond the State in Sino-African Relations? Reflections on Civil Society Interactions’ in Arndt Graf and Azirah Hashim (eds) African Asian Encounters: New Cooperations, New Dependencies. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

2015. 'Solange wir streiten, sind wir auf dem richtigen Weg!', in Grenzüberschreitend - Anti-Rassismus im Süden. Iz3w – Informationszentrum Dritte Welt. Ausgabe 350. Freiburg, S. 2-4. (jointly with María do Mar Castro Varela and Albert Scherr)

 2015. 'Tracing Women's Rights after Genocide: The Case of Rwanda’, in Annick T.R. Wibben (ed.) Researching War: Feminist Methods, Ethics and Politics (Interventions Series). London: Routledge.

2012. 'Asserting their Presence! Women's Quest for Transitional Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda', in Buckley-Zistel, Susanne, Ruth Stanley (eds) Gender in Transitional Justice (Governance and Limited Statehood Series). Basingstoke/New York: 163-190.

2009. 'Gleichheit oder Gleichgültigkeit? Vom Ende der Regenbogennation', femina politica. Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft 2/2009: 74-84 (jointly with Beatrix Schwarzer).

2008. 'International Norms: An Entry Ticket to Women's National Representation?' in Camus, Celine et al. (eds) Im Zeichen des Geschlechts: Repräsentationen, Konstruktionen, Interventionen. Königstein/Taunus: 171 – 185.

2007. 'Beyond the Merely Possible – Transnational Women's Movements Today/ Mehr als nur das Machbare – Aktuelle Ansätze transnationaler Frauenbewegungspolitik', femina politica. Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft 1/2007: 153-155.

2003. 'Petition of the Native and Coloured Women of the Province of the Orange Free State 1912', in Daymond, M. J. et al. (eds) Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region (The Women Writing Africa Project, Vol. 1). New York: 158-159.