The crises of capitalist globalisation manifests as worker precarity in the industrial world, the extractivist threat to rural livelihoods in the global South, epidemic levels of domestic violence, regional wars and global warming. But people’s political responses to this [...]
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War is a profitable business—for some—and this post ponders how terrorism is also a profitable business. Even before the 12 August Guardian article showed, in a damaging light, that the Thatcher government exploited Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait in order to sell arms (then [...]
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In high school, like many young women, my friends and I developed a fascination with witches. Years before we knew what feminism was, a sense of foreboding had developed among us, about our place in the world and our power relative to adults and to our male peers. As ambitious teen girls [...]
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Those who position themselves as feminist International Relations (IR) scholars usually realise early on that they need to be experts in international relations AND feminist theory—both the mainstream and critical perspectives of their particular subfield. But as one of the key takeaways [...]
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There was only once, in the final year of my PhD, that my supervisor and I butted heads. I had just submitted my fourth chapter for her review and, because I was living in another city at the time, she sent me an email saying we needed to speak on the phone urgently. A radical feminist, she [...]
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Feminist ethics can help us with the study of violence and war because of two reasons. First, by drawing attention to everyday activities that has an impact on conflict. This will help connect the dots between private experiences of violence and the public sphere of war. Second, by [...]
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International workforces underpin contemporary security operations—many of these forces originating from the global South. Similarly, miltarised households supporting these operations have also gone global. But what can military households tell us about global military operations and global [...]
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Addressing the question of the divide – or the proper relationship – between Feminist Security Studies and Feminist Global Political Economy immediately raises an age-old dilemma: how can we study an undifferentiated social world in which everything is in fact connected to everything else? [...]
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