Dr Stephanie Perazzone
- Lecturer in International Development (School of Social & Political Sciences)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1308-4605Biography
I am a Lecturer in International Development. My research and teaching agenda centers on critical IR and international political sociology, and includes conflict, African politics, state domination, political violence, as well as feminist and decolonial theory, with a geographical specialization on DR Congo (DRC) and Ivory Coast.
Prior to joining the School, I was a senior researcher at the University of Geneva where I am still leading a research programme on the Politics of Urban 'Public' Spaces in the African cities of Abidjan (Ivory Coast) and Kinshasa (DRC). I also held postdoctoral positions at Antwerp and Ghent Universities where I worked on state weakness and formation in urban Africa, peacebuilding, statebuilding, international intervention and security sector reform in the DRC, and the violent politics of urbanization in (post)conflict environments.
Research interests
African and International Politics
State Theory and Political Violence
International Intervention
Armed Conflict
Resistance
Feminist Theory
Post/Decolonial Theory
Southern Urbanisms
Visual Ethnography and creative (qualitative) methods
Research groups
Publications
Prior publications
Article
Charlotte Mertens, Stéphanie Perazzone (2024) For the archive yet to come Crossref. (doi: 10.1017/S026021052400041X)
Stéphanie Perazzone (2024) Bayart (Jean-François), L’énergie de l’État. Pour une sociologie historique et comparée du politique , Paris, La Découverte, 2022, 782 p. Stephanie Perazzone. ISSN 0295-2319 (doi: 10.3917/pox.145.0181)
Karen Buscher, Stephanie Perazzone, Jeroen Cuvelier, Stephane Lumbu, Espoir Rwakira, Paul Bulambo, Chrispin Mvano Yabauma, Godefroid Muzalia (2024) Contested ‘commune rurales’: Decentralisation and the (violent) struggle for public authority in the Democratic Republic of Congo Archive ouverte UNIGE. ISSN 1758-5880 (doi: 10.1111/1758-5899.13309)
Stephanie Perazzone (2023) Ending Global Violence Through Radical Feminist Theory: The Teachings of bell hooks on Power and Domination Archive ouverte UNIGE. ISSN 1369-8249 (doi: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2253047)
(2022) Fatal misconceptions Stephanie Perazzone. ISSN 2040-7211 (doi: 10.1080/21681392.2022.2059901)
Stephanie Perazzone (2020) Dimensions of African statehood: everyday governance and provision of public goods Archive ouverte UNIGE. ISSN 0803-9410 (doi: 10.1080/08039410.2020.1778911)
Stéphanie Perazzone (2020) Circulation et aliénation du « droit à la ville»: le monde invisible des résistances quotidiennes Archive ouverte UNIGE. ISSN 2427-7002
(2020) « L’ennuyeux » formalisme d’État. Distanciation-discipline et gouvernance urbaine en République démocratique du Congo Stephanie Perazzone. ISSN 2264-5047 (doi: 10.3917/polaf.158.0223)
(2019) “Shouldn't You Be Teaching Me?” State Mimicry in the Congo Stephanie Perazzone. ISSN 1749-5687 (doi: 10.1093/ips/oly023)
(2017) Reintegrating former fighters in the Congo: ambitious objectives, limited results Stephanie Perazzone. ISSN 1743-906X (doi: 10.1080/13533312.2016.1219659)
(2022) Colonial Durabilities in the Contemporary African Great Lakes Region Stephanie Perazzone.
Book Section
Stéphanie Perazzone (2019) Neighbourhood Chiefs in Urban DRC: “The State is Me, the State is You, the State is All of Us” Archive ouverte UNIGE. ISBN 9781786994004
Grants
Current grant
- 2022 - 2026: Unruly Spaces: Public Space, Society and Politics in Urban Africa. Swiss National Science Foundation, Ambizione Grant (PZ00P1_201869). Principal investigator, ~ £ 850,000
Past grants
- 2020 – 2021: Lockdown Diaries: Pandemic Stories from the ‘Field'. Rapid-response grant on Covid-19 and Social Sciences, the Social Sciences Research Council ~ £ 4,000
- 2019 – 2021: Localizing International Security Sector Reform. Swiss National Science Foundation, Early Postdoc Mobility Grant (P2GEP1_181547) ~ £ 30,000
- 2019: Researching (Societal) Conflict | Doing Fieldwork in Divisive or Violent Contexts. Swiss National Science Foundation, Scientific Exchanges Grant (IZSEZ0_186585) ~ £18,000
- 2015 – 2017: Metropolitan interactional strategies and state transformation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Swiss National Science Foundation, Doc.CH Grant (P0GEP1_158966)~ £ 155, 000
Supervision
Please get in touch if you are interested in doing a PhD that relates to my research interests.
Teaching
I am co-teaching the following courses:
- Issues in IR (POLITIC4010)
- Conflict Analysis (POLITIC5001)
