In this roundtable discussion, Amanda Chisholm, Marsha Henry, Megan MacKenzie, Sara Salem and Laura Sjoberg will discuss contemporary topics in feminism and the international, including International Relations’ understanding of anti-gender ideology and backlash, and feminist IR’s place in responding to it.
Amanda Chisholm @amandachisholm5 is Senior Lecturer in Security Studies at King's College, London. Her research is located at the nexus of Feminist International Relations, Global Political Economy, migration studies and Security Studies. Amanda’s research employs ethnographic methods to examine private military and security companies’ global operations. Her work is concerned with how gendered and racial logics sustain difference, assign value and reproduce hierarchies amongst these workforces and households. Having been awarded an Economic and Social Research Council Future leaders’ grant in 2016, her current work looks at issues of (un)ethical recruitment practices in unarmed and armed global South security workforces.
Marsha Henry @mghacademic is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender Studies, LSE. Marsha’s research interests focus on critical military and peacekeeping studies; the political economy of sexual violence in postconflict settings; and intersectional feminist theories and methodologies.
Megan MacKenzie is Professor of Gender and War in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney and the author of Beyond the Band of Brothers: the US Military and the Myth that Women Can’t Fight. Her research is broadly aimed at reducing war; it bridges feminist theory, critical security studies, and critical/post development studies. Megan has contributed research on topics including sexual violence in war, truth and reconciliation commissions, military culture, images and international relations, and women in combat.
Sara Salem @saramsalem is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at LSE. Sara’s research interests include political sociology, postcolonial studies, Marxist theory, feminist theory, and global histories of empire and imperialism. She has recently published articles on Angela Davis in Egypt in the journal Signs; on Frantz Fanon and Egypt’s postcolonial state in Interventions: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies; and on intersectionality as a travelling theory in the European Journal of Women’s Studies, among others.
Laura Sjoberg @drlauraesq (BA, University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of Southern California School of International Relations; J.D. Boston College Law School) is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. Her research interests are in the area of gender-based and feminist approaches to the study of international relations generally, and international security specifically. Her research has addressed gender and just war theory, women’s violence in global politics, and feminist interpretations of the theory and practice of security policy.
Dr Katharine Millar is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at LSE.
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