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Queering Women, Peace and Security: Expanding Feminist Approaches to Gender in Peacebuilding, Oxford University Press, 2025

  • Addresses a gap in the understanding of how LGBTQ women factor within the United Nation's Women, Peace and Security agenda

  • Features interviews with practitioners of WPS to reveal their understandings of "gender" and "women"

  • Provides concrete recommendations for taking a more inclusive approach to gender in post-conflict peacebuilding

  • Includes insights from LGBTQ movements in Colombia and Northern Ireland

'Queer Conflict Research: New Approaches to the Study of Political Violence', (edited with Samuel Ritholtz & Andrew Delatolla), Bristol University Press, 2024 Open access chapters & resource guides

SPECIAL ISSUES

  • Our Work is International Relations: On Exclusion, Negotiation, and Engagement Against Disciplinary Boundaries. Alternatives, 49(3), 175-179.

    With this forum we aim to contribute to the debate within International Relations (IR) scholarship about the space that has opened up since the inter-paradigmatic debate 30 years ago and the challenges still experienced by those of us coming from the “margin” yet committed to the “globalization” of the discipline. That is to say, to building a pluriverse of IR. Co edited with Anupama Ranawana, with additional contributions from Alex-Edney Brown, Ahmed Rizky Mardhatilla Umar and Roland Bleiker,

  • 'Cuir/Queer Peacebuilding', (edited with Melanie Judge, Samuel Ritholtz and José Fernando Serrano Amaya , Revista de Estudios Sociales, January 2023

This special issue explores what “queering” means in the context of peacebuilding. The issue addresses an unexamined gap in peacebuilding efforts to achieve gender justice and inclusive security in conflict-affected societies, namely the unique experiences of LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer) individuals and their collective efforts to achieve social justice in contexts of sociopolitical violence. Although there is now over two decades of work to include attention to gender in peacebuilding efforts, little of this work focuses specifically on queer perspectives. Read the introduction here. 

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