Author

Wendy Willems

Observed names: Wendy. Willems, Willems, Willems, Wendy

Institution: London School of Economics and Political Science

Observed institutions: University of London, University of the Witwatersrand, SOAS University of London, London School of Economics and Political Science

ORCID: 0000-0002-9185-4268

Observed ORCID: 0000-0002-9185-4268

OpenAlex ID: A5021109180

Making Sense of Cultural Nationalism and the Politics of Commemoration under the Third Chimurenga in Zimbabwe**

2009 · Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Wendy Willems · Journal of Southern African Studies · 123

Provincializing Hegemonic Histories of Media and Communication Studies: Toward a Genealogy of Epistemic Resistance in Africa

2014 · Wendy Willems · Communication Theory · 107

Beyond Normative Dewesternization: Examining Media Culture from the Vantage Point of the Global South

2014 · Willems · The Global South · 101

‘The politics of things’: digital media, urban space, and the materiality of publics

2019 · Wendy Willems · Media Culture & Society · 85

Comic Strips and “the Crisis”: Postcolonial Laughter and Coping With Everyday Life in Zimbabwe

2011 · Wendy Willems · Popular Communication · 71

Participation – In what? Radio, convergence and the corporate logic of audience input through new media in Zambia

2012 · Wendy Willems · Telematics and Informatics · 69

Beyond platform-centrism and digital universalism: the relational affordances of mobile social media publics

2020 · Wendy Willems · Information Communication & Society · 68

Everyday Media Culture in Africa

2016 · Wendy Willems · Routledge eBooks · 60

Peasant Demonstrators, Violent Invaders: Representations of Land in the Zimbabwean Press

2004 · Wendy Willems · World Development · 45

‘Zimbabwe will never be a colony again’: changing celebratory styles and meanings of independence

2013 · Wendy Willems · Anthropology Southern Africa · 43

Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users

2017 · Wendy Willems, Winston Mano · London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) · 39

Reinvoking the past in the present: changing identities and appropriations of Joshua Nkomo in post-colonial Zimbabwe

2010 · Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Wendy Willems · African Identities · 35

Remnants of Empire? British media reporting on Zimbabwe

2017 · Wendy Willems · Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture · 33

The reproduction of canonical silences: re-reading Habermas in the context of slavery and the slave trade

2022 · Wendy Willems · Communication Culture and Critique · 31

Beyond dramatic revolutions and grand rebellions

2022 · Wendy Willems · Communicare Journal for Communication Studies in Africa · 30

Interrogating Public Sphere and Popular Culture as Theoretical Concepts on their Value in African Studies

2012 · Wendy Willems · Africa Development · 30

Emerging communities, emerging media: the case of a Zimbabwean nurse in the British Big Brother show

2008 · Winston Mano, Wendy Willems · Critical Arts · 30

Decolonizing and provincializing audience and internet studies: contextual approaches from African vantage points

2016 · Wendy Willems, Winston Mano · London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) · 28

Civic agency in Africa: arts of resistance in the 21st century

2014 · Ebenezer Obadare, Wendy Willems · 20

Risky dialogues: the performative state and the nature of power in a postcolony

2015 · Wendy Willems · Journal of African Cultural Studies · 16

The Ballot Vote as Embedded Ritual: A Radical Critique of Liberal-Democratic Approaches to Media and Elections in Africa

2012 · Wendy Willems · African Studies · 16

Selection and silence: contesting meanings of land in Zimbabwean media

2004 · Wendy Willems · Ecquid Novi African Journalism Studies · 10

8. Debating ‘Zimbabweanness’ in Diasporic Internet Forums: Technologies of Freedom?

2022 · Winston Mano, Wendy Willems · Berghahn Books · 7

Unearthing Bundles of Baffling Silences: The Entangled and Racialized Global Histories of Media and Media Studies

2021 · Wendy Willems · History of Media Studies · 7

Beyond free basics: Facebook, data bundles and Zambia’s social media internet

2016 · Wendy Willems · London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) · 7

Works count: 60

Citation count: 1,152

H-index: 19

I10-index: 22