Amanda Heffernan explores necropolitical theory, Latin American feminist scholarship, and the U.S. reproductive justice movement to argue that the reproductive oppression of pregnant migrants by U.S. immigration authorities is gendered necropolitics at work.
Read MoreFocusing on the political endeavors of sex worker rights organizations in Canada and the United States (US) to end forms of oppression caused by the criminalization of the sexual service industry, Genevieve Fuji Johnson and Kerry Porth develop an approach to solidaristic normative theory.
Read MoreWestern interventions in the Middle East are often legitimized by appeals to women's rights. How did this occur in Syria with the 2014 Operation Inherent Resolve? Eda Gunaydin discusses the gap between Western versus self-representations of the YPJ.
Read MoreIn her article, Karie Cross Riddle suggests a complementary alternative to the Women, Peace, and Security agenda called “critical feminist justpeace,” a grounded theory of change based on women’s peacebuilding in Manipur, India.
Read MoreGlen Hill and Kabita Chakma present an original forensic examination of the mechanisms by which nationalism transforms into violence against those who are ethnically or religiously ‘other’.
Read MoreIn her latest paper Juliana Restrepo Sanín analyzes the case of Bolivia to show that perpetrators of violence against women in politics use democratic procedures, language, and institutions to attack and undermine women’s work in politics.
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