Gender and Politics Network
Many staff members in the Department of Politics and International Relations have research and teaching expertise in the field of gender, queer, sexuality, and feminist politics.
The Department of Politics and International Relations offers a taught MA in Gender and Politics (with two core modules Gendering Politics and Backlash & Co-optation). We also supervise PhD students whose research covers feminist, queer, gender and sexuality politics.
Department staff’s interests in gender, sexuality, queer and feminist issues cross-cut different subareas of Politics, including International Relations, Political Theory, Comparative Politics, Political Economy and British Politics, as the below overview shows.
Projects showcase
Feminist Memory Politics
Dr Harriet Gray
The project approaches the memorialisation of sexual violence across war and peace as a contested form of feminist politics. It focuses its analysis on six memorial projects located across the USA: three dedicated to peacetime sexual violence within the US, and three to the 'comfort women' of the Asia-Pacific War.
Gendering Representation, Representing Gender
Alice Roberts Dunn, PhD candidate
This project brings insights from feminist theory to bear on representation, rethinking what it means to politically represent gender. Through analysis of a number of 'real-world' examples of the challenges of representing gender, including conscripted representation and far-right female leaders, it explores whether representation must always be a crystallising and exclusionary force, or whether it is possible to harness its creative powers for feminist ends.
Gender and Land Grabs in South and Southeast Asian Resource Frontiers
Dr Saba Joshi
This project investigates how land acquisition for plantations, contract farming and mining projects have impacted upon gender relations in local smallholder communities in selected regions of Cambodia and India—key hotspots for large-scale land acquisitions in Asia. The research seeks to expose how gendered power operates in relation to access and control of land, capital, employment, and property rights in agrarian economies that are undergoing major transformations in land-use.
Network members
| Name | Role | Research interests | Email address |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuray Aridici | Lecturer | Feminist theories of foreign policy analysis; gender and nation building; gender and nationalism; masculinities. | nuray.aridici@york.ac.uk |
| Lauren Avery | PhD student | Disability activism; social justice movements; racism, ableism and gendered care. | lauren.avery@york.ac.uk |
| Anna Bailie | PhD Student | Young People's Mental Health; Social Media; the politics of self-care. | anna.bailie@york.ac.uk |
| Claire Crawford | Postdoctoral Researcher | Social movements; digital politics; postcolonialism; feminist activism; India | claire.crawford@york.ac.uk |
| Harriet Gray | Senior Lecturer | Feminist international relations; Feminist critical military studies; Military families; Sexual and gender-based violence; Memorialisation. | harriet.gray@york.ac.uk |
| Sara de Jong | Professor | Feminist activism; Co-optation of feminisms; Racialised/migrant masculinities; gender and colonialism | sara.dejong@york.ac.uk |
| Diana Infante-Vargas | PhD Student | Mobility, gender and its context in Saltillo, Mexico; an analysis into informal transport systems through a gender lens. | dpiv500@york.ac.uk |
| Saba Joshi | Lecturer | Feminist international political economy; Women’s collective action and activism; Social Reproduction, Feminist critical agrarian studies; Feminist political economy of development, Gender and global governance | saba.joshi@york.ac.uk |
| Ruth Kelly | Lecturer | Feminist epistemologies and methodologies; cultural politics, e.g. how gender roles and aspirations are shaped/negotiated through storytelling, song, art, etc.; feminist approaches/frames, activist resilience and transnational solidarities in human rights and social justice movements. Board member for Elect Her (getting women elected in the UK) |
ruth.kelly@york.ac.uk |
| Hanna Ketola | Postdoctoral Research Associate (from January 2024, associate status) | Feminist IR; politics of war, peace and militarism; women’s political agency; subaltern politics; affect and emotions; ethnographic methods. | hanna.ketola@york.ac.uk |
| Tallulah Lines | PhD student and Research Associate | Socially engaged critical art; arts-based methodologies; decolonial and community feminism; feminist security; women’s collective action; Mexico and Latin America | tallulah.lines@york.ac.uk |
| Mohammad Malik | PhD Student | Sexuality Studies, Feminist Theory, Issues of Race and Legal Status in the Middle East, Gulf Studies, Participatory Action Research Methods, Ethnography. | haddi.malik@york.ac.uk |
| Alasia Nuti | Senior Lecturer | Feminist political theory; gender, sexuality and memory; gender, sexuality | alasia.nuti@york.ac.uk |
| Rong Pu | PhD Student | Gender mainstreaming; climate change aid; Small island developing states | rong.pu@york.ac.uk |
| Alice Roberts Dunn | Postgraduate Researcher | Feminist political theory; representation; gender; the subject. | ard518@york.ac.uk |
| Anna Sanders | Lecturer | Gender and representation; gender and voting behaviour; gender and public policy. | anna.sanders@york.ac.uk |
| Sarah Shair-Rosenfield | Professor | Decentralisation, gender, and policy outcomes; gender and elections; gender and language; gender and leadership; gender, peace, and security. | sarah.shair-rosenfield@york.ac.uk |
| Rebecca Tapscott | Lecturer | Militarised masculinity, gender and authoritarianism, political violence and gender | rebecca.tapscott@york.ac.uk |
| Joe Turner | Senior Lecturer | Borders; Border violence; Colonialism; Postcolonial feminism; Inequality, racism and gender; Ecofascism and masculinities. | joe.turner@york.ac.uk |
| Susy Williams | PhD student | Gendered (human and environmental) exploitation; garment industry; postcolonial feminism and intersectionality. | susannah.williams@york.ac.uk |