Feminist International Relations (IR) scholarship has rapidly developed in recent decades into a distinct and recognised body of scholarship encompassing a terrain of debates about what “the international” is and how we might study it. While feminist IR’s development and institutionalisation [...]
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Afghan women could serve as ideal messengers in humanizing the ISAF [International Security Assistance Force] role in combating the Taliban because of women’s ability to speak personally and credibly about their experiences under the Taliban, their aspirations for [...]
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As we face the increasingly visible rightward political shifts in the US and Europe and the ramifications of these shifts in Australia the question of ‘what can be done’, and in particular ‘what can be done to transform popular discontent into practices of emancipatory possibility’ [...]
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Yulia Maleta (University of Sydney), 'Advocating an Ecofeminist Sociopolitical Economic Model'
This is the fourth seminar in the [...]
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As outlined in this series of blogs, Scandalous Economics is a collection of essays that explores “how scandals – and scandalous uses of and/or neglect of gender – have helped narrate the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) into political oblivion”, as Aida Hozić and Jacqui True outline in [...]
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Abortion is routinely portrayed as a dominant feature of the American ‘culture wars’; yet this categorisation misunderstands the fundamental place that reproductive choice has in women’s economic position in society, and the way that lack of access to reproductive healthcare compounds [...]
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Pervasive lies and scandals inflected by gender and race/ethnicity are the early-warning devices for financial crises and the symptoms of their wilful forgetting.
Over the last month the turmoil in financial markets underpinned by the slump in global – and especially China’s – growth [...]
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Samuel Knafo’s The Making of Modern Finance is a thoroughly compelling historically-grounded interrogation of liberal financial governance. I should qualify straight away that I am no expert on financial governance, the gold standard or the history of central banking. Nonetheless, there was [...]
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