“This is the place you put a CV.” You do? Well… OK.
Perhaps like this: a feminist researcher and writer working at the intersection of gender studies and peace/conflict studies. I like to use photography in connection with research and activism.
In academic terms, I’m a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at City University London. Politically, I’m involved in the international feminist antimilitarist networks Women in Black against War and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Since 1995 I’ve been working closely with women peace activists in conflictual countries, doing qualitative action-research. In this way, I’ve made a sequence of studies of particular women’s organizations working across ethno-nation lines in Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Israel/Palestine and Cyprus – organizations whose work I also try to support.
Some of my publications on these themes are The 'Space Between Us: Negotiating Gender and National Identities in Conflict'. This features women’s projects of cooperation in N.Ireland, B-H and Israel/Palestine. 'The Post-War Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping' (co-edited with Dubravka Zarkov) which has chapters looking at the Netherlands as a ‘peace-keeping’ country and Bosnia as a ‘peace-kept’ country. And 'The Line: Women, Partition and the Gender Order in Cyprus', in which features women resisting partitions – of ethnicity and gender (see 'Publications').
My most recent research, 2004-7, involved mapping and analysing feminist opposition to war as a growing, global, social movement. It is now published as 'From Where We Stand: War, Women's Activism and Feminist Analysis' (see 'Publications'). My current research is on the relation between socialisms, anarchisms, pacifisms and feminisms in the anti-war movements in several countries.
This Weblog has been designed to contribute to this and subsequent projects by enabling quick feedback and discussion.
Prior to 1995 my research involved local governance; and feminist gender studies of the labour process, the sexual division of labour, and change in the workplace; men, masculinity and skill; transformative change in trade unions and employing organizations; and the gender relations of technology.
Some of my publications from this earlier period are 'The Local State; Brothers; Machinery of Dominance'; 'Gender and Technology in the Making'; and 'In the Way of Women' (see ‘Publications’).
