Revisiting Gendered States

Edited by Swati Parashar, Associate Professor, Peace and Development Research, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Edited by J. Ann Tickner, Professor Emerita, School of International Relations, University of Southern California, Edited by Jacqui True, Professor of Politics and International Relations, School of Social Sciences, Monash University, and Preface by V. Spike Peterson, Professor of International Relations, School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona

Swati Parashar is Associate Professor in Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi in 2016. Her research engages with the intersections between feminism, security and postcolonialism, focused on conflict and development issues in South Asia. She is the author of Women and Militant Wars: The Politics of Injury (Routledge: London, 2014) and of several books chapters and articles in journals such as Postcolonial Studies, Security Dialogue, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, International Studies Review and International Studies Perspective.

J. Ann Tickner is Professor Emerita in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California, and Distinguished Scholar in Residence in the School of International Service at American University. She is also Professor of Politics and International Relations at Monash University. Her principle areas of research include international theory, peace and security, and feminist approaches to international relations. Her publications include Gendering World Politics: Issues and Approaches in the Post-Cold War World and A Feminist Voyage Through International Relations.

Jacqui True is Professor of Politics & International Relations, and Director of Monash University's Centre for Gender, Peace and Security. She is also an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. Her current research is focused on understanding the political economy of post-conflict violence against women and the patterns of systemic sexual and gender-based violence in Asia Pacific conflict-affected countries. Her recent publications include The Political Economy of Violence Against Women and edited with Aida Hozic, Scandalous Economics: The Politics of Gender and Financial Crises.

Christine Agius is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests cover Nordic politics and security, identity, and critical security studies. Publications include The Social Construction of Swedish Neutrality: Challenges to Swedish Identity and Sovereignty (2006, Manchester University Press), The Politics of Identity: Imagining Identity through Place, Space and Discourse (edited with Dean Keep, Manchester University Press, forthcoming) as well as articles in Cooperation and Conflict, Security Dialogue and other journals. She is the director of the Identity Research Network (IRN), which brings together interdisciplinary research on the theme of identity.

Katherine E. Brown is a lecturer in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of Birmingham, specialising in gender, jihad and counter-terrorism. She has published widely in academic journals and blogs, and is currently working on a monograph on anti-radicalization policies and gender from around the globe. Her expertise has been sought by a number of academic, policy and media outlets in the UK, USA, Tunisia, Canada, Australia, Norway, and Austria, including, for example, the 9/11 Memorial, the European Parliament, and UN women.

David Duriesmith is a Development Fellow in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. He was formerly a Postdoctoral Fellow for Conflict, Justice, and Development at the University of Melbourne. David researches masculinities, armed conflict and violence prevention. David's work has been published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, The Australasian Review of African Studies, and in his 2016 book Masculinities and New Wars: The gendered dynamics of contemporary armed conflict (Routledge). David's current research focuses on the construction of masculinities and the 'local turn' in peacebuilding.

Samanthi J. Gunawardana is a Lecturer in Gender and Development in the Faculty of Arts. She has a PhD in Economics and Commerce from The University of Melbourne. Samanthi's research examines the impact of development policy on employment systems, labour, and livelihoods among rural women in South Asia, with a particular emphasis on gender, development and labour in Sri Lanka. Key topics explored include export processing zone employment systems, freedom of association, labour organizing, labour migration, and connections between the political economy of households and development policy.

Katrina Lee-Koo is a Reader in international relations at Monash University, Melbourne and Deputy Director of Monash GPS (Gender, Peace and Security Research Centre). She teaches and researches in the fields of gender, security studies, and children and global conflict. She is also recently the co-author of Children and Global Conflict (with Kim Huynh and Bina D'Costa, Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Ethics and Global Security (with Anthony Burke and Matt McDonald, Routledge, 2014).

Swati Parashar is a Senior Lecturer with the Peace and Development Program at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Adjunct Senior Fellow with Monash GPS (Gender, Peace and Security) Centre at Monash University, Australia. In 2016, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. Her research engages with the intersections between feminism and postcolonialism, focused on conflict and development issues in South Asia. She is the author of Women and Militant Wars: The Politics of Injury (Routledge: London, 2014).

V. Spike Peterson is Professor of International Relations at the University of Arizona, with courtesy appointments in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies and the Institute for LGBT Studies. Her book, A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Integrating Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies introduced an alternative analytics for examining intersections of race, class, gender and national hierarchies in the context of neoliberal globalization. She also co-authored, with Anne Sisson Runyan, Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium. Her cross-disciplinary research interrogates the sex/gender and racial dynamics of informalization, transnational householding, and global insecurities in the context of critically analyzing global political economy, and generates long histories and critical queerings of state formation, marriage, citizenship and nationalism.

Lesley J. Pruitt is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Monash University and a member of the Monash GPS (Gender, Peace and Security) Centre. Lesley's research focuses on peace and conflict studies, especially recognising and enhancing youth participation in peacebuilding and advancing gender equity in peacekeeping. A Truman Scholar and Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, Lesley received her Masters & PhD from the University of Queensland. Lesley's books include The Women in Blue Helmets: Gender, Policing & the UN's First All-Female Peacekeeping Unit (2016; University of California Press) and Youth Peacebuilding: Music, Gender & Change (2013; State University of New York Press).

Christine Sylvester is Professor of Political Science, and professorial affiliate of the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University. Her latest book is an edited collection of essays, Masquerades of War (2015), related to the Experiencing War Project she facilitates. She is currently a fellow of the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut working on a book manuscript contracted with Oxford University Press: Curating and Re-Curating America's Wars in Vietnam and Iraq. Related books include Art/Museums: International Relations Where We Least Expect It (2009) and War as Experience: Contributions from International Relations and Feminist Analysis (2013).

J. Ann Tickner is Professor Emerita in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California, Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the School of International Service at American University, Washington DC and Professor of Politics and International Relations in the Gender, Peace and Security Centre at Monash University in Melbourne. Her principle areas of research include international theory, peace and security, and feminist approaches to international relations. Her publications include Gendering World Politics: Issues and Approaches in the Post-Cold War World (2001) and A Feminist Voyage Through International Relations (2014). She is a past President of the International Studies Association. She was named as one of fifty key thinkers in Martin Griffiths, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations.

Jacqui True is Professor of Politics & International Relations and Director of Monash University's Centre for Gender, Peace and Security (Monash GPS) in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, Australia. She is also an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow and a Global Fellow, Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Oslo. Her current research is focused on understanding the political economy of post-conflict violence against women and the patterns of systemic sexual and gender-based violence in Asia Pacific conflict-affected countries. Recent publications include The Political Economy of Violence Against Women (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Scandalous Economics: The Politics of Gender and Financial Crises (Oxford University Press, 2016) edited with Aida Hozi?. She is a co-editor with Sara Davies of the Oxford Handbook on Women, Peace and Security (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Cai Wilkinson is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Deakin University, Australia. Her research focuses on societal security in the post-Soviet space, with a particular focus on LGBTQ human rights and "traditional values" in Kyrgyzstan and Russia, and she is currently working on a project about the politics of LGBT rights in the post-Soviet space. Her work has been published in Security Dialogue, Journal of Human Rights, and Nationalities Papers, and she has contributed chapters to volumes on securitization theory, LGBT activism in Central Asia, and fieldwork-based research methods. She also recently guest-edited an interventions symposium on queer/ing in/security for Critical Studies on Security.