What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
Mahmood Mamdani spends much of his time researching Law, Colonialism, Politics, Media studies and Cold war.
His studies deal with areas such as Genocide, Psychological nativism, Criminology, Democracy and Spanish Civil War as well as Colonialism.
The various areas that he examines in his Genocide study include Citizenship, Ethnology, Social revolution, Gender studies and Racialization.
His Politics research includes themes of Political economy and Terrorism.
His Media studies research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Religious experience, Western culture and Culture theory.
Mahmood Mamdani interconnects Authoritarianism, State, Democratization, Indirect rule and Direct rule in the investigation of issues within Power.
His most cited work include:
- Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (3102 citations)
- When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (902 citations)
- Good Muslim, bad Muslim : America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror (532 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
His primary areas of investigation include Politics, Law, Gender studies, Colonialism and Democracy.
He has researched Politics in several fields, including Political economy and Criminology.
As a part of the same scientific study, he usually deals with the Law, concentrating on Media studies and frequently concerns with Religious experience and Western culture.
His work carried out in the field of Colonialism brings together such families of science as Political violence, Ethnology, Genocide, Psychological nativism and Spanish Civil War.
As a member of one scientific family, he mostly works in the field of Economic system, focusing on State and, on occasion, Indirect rule.
Mahmood Mamdani combines subjects such as Authoritarianism, Econometrics, Democratization, Power and Direct rule with his study of Indirect rule.
He most often published in these fields:
- Politics (33.80%)
- Law (18.31%)
- Gender studies (16.90%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2014-2020)?
- Politics (33.80%)
- Environmental ethics (8.45%)
- Agency (5.63%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
His scientific interests lie mostly in Politics, Environmental ethics, Agency, Decolonization and Identity.
His Politics research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Criminal justice, Theory of criminal justice and Accountability.
Between 2014 and 2020, his most popular works were:
- Settler colonialism: Then and now (34 citations)
- Beyond Nuremberg The Historical Significance of the Post-apartheid Transition in South Africa (23 citations)
- Neither Settler nor Native (4 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
His main research concerns Environmental ethics, Human rights, Transition, Mass violence and Negotiation.
His Human rights research is within the category of Law.
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