Olaf Zenker
Anthropologist whose work spans Southern Africa, Germany, and Northern Ireland, focused on questions of justice and contested normativities, including state-driven land reform and post-liberal critiques.
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Mar 19, 2026 • 56min
Death of Liberalism: The Exhaustion of Democracy
Olaf Zenker, an anthropologist working across Southern Africa, Germany and Northern Ireland, explores what happens when liberalism exhausts people who expected justice and change. He discusses land restitution, legalism versus lived expectations, post-liberal fatigue as a global moment, how fragility hardens into politics, and ways scholars can turn exhaustion into public, practical engagement.
