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Why is the zombie apocalypse so terrible for women? Gender, militarism, and ontological insecurity at the end of the world

Why is the zombie apocalypse so terrible for women?

The zombie apocalypse genre relies on existing political and social conditions to articulate anxieties and vulnerabilities and to present avenues for resistance or, as the author argues is the case for WWZ, to reassert the norms of dominant power structures as a kind of salvation. WWZ is a form of everyday theorizing that highlights the connections between militarism, gender, and ontological insecurity and that asserts the need to return to “traditional” (Western-centric, heteropatriarchal) values to save ourselves.

IFJP GlobalJune 12, 2023Militarization, insecurity, Popular culture

She-power? Official narratives of “Xinjiang women” in China’s People’s War on Terror

IFJP GlobalMay 3, 2023China, Counterterrorism, agency

Revolutionary pills? Feminist abortion, pharmaceuticalization and reproductive governance

Self-managed abortion has transformed access to abortion globally. Yet, the centralization of abortion pill supply and distribution has real impacts on people’s bodily autonomy. Check out the 2021 Enloe award winning article Revolutionary pills? Feminist abortion, pharmaceuticalization, and reproductive governance

IFJP GlobalJanuary 27, 2023reproductive rights, Abortion, activism, enloe award

Gendered repertoires of contention: women’s resistance, authoritarian state formation, and land grabbing in Cambodia

Amid a surge of “land grabbing” in Cambodia, women from across the country have led and sustained public protests to reclaim their lands. In this article, Saba Joshi studies the routines and performances of poor women’s collective action against the state and outlines four distinct types of “repertoires of contention” used by women in their protests: strategic positioning, anti-politics, self-sacrifice, and solidarity.

IFJP GlobalSeptember 13, 2022agency, Asia, enloe award, women rebels, Land Rights

Will the EU ever ratify the Council of Europe’s Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence? The European Parliament supports it despite opposition

IFJP GlobalSeptember 9, 2022European Union, Violence Against Women, advocacy, anti-gender backlash

Response to a Scandal: Sex Work, Race and the Development Sector in Haiti

Maree Pardy and Kalissa Alexeyeff reflect on how development and humanitarian representations of Haitian sex workers, and sex work in general, as expressed in Oxfam’s responses to the scandal, exposed the sector’s colonial and racialized approaches to gender, sexuality, and sex work.

IFJP GlobalAugust 12, 2022Gender and development, sex work