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Lena Reim is a Departmental Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Politics Tutor at St Peter’s College. Her research primarily focuses on political violence and resistance, with a regional emphasis on Southern East Africa. Utilizing oral historical ethnographic methods, her work highlights grassroots politics and locally conceived notions of justice, illuminating how political repertoires, narratives, and subjectivities enter academic and policy discourse as passive victims. She is currently working on a book project that addresses the Gukurahundi atrocities in Zimbabwe, exploring the unresolved and repressed state violence that continues to haunt Zimbabwean society and the generation of witnesses and survivors who inherit, reconstruct, and mobilize their violent past to challenge the current political order. Furthermore, Lena's work has begun to investigate bottom-up engagement in formal transitional justice processes and environmental justice activism in the context of climate change and the global energy transition.
Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.