Queer Oppression in the Global South and the Structural Violence of Development
Development Studies scholars should employ a multi-faceted approach to violence that places social hierarchies at the forefront of its analysis.
Exploring Past and Present of British Sexual Governance Across the Commonwealth
The performative and neocolonial nature of British LGBT discourse represents a continuation of the Empire through a seemingly progressive and benevolent agenda.
Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Imperialist Dynamics in International Law
By hegemonically promoting a hierarchical type of sovereign equality, the West perpetuates an unfair international system by failing to listen to distinct voices.
“You Blaspheme, You Die”—The Rise of Anti-Blasphemy in Pakistan
The mala fide accusations, indifference to intent, killing before legal proceedings conclude and impact on minorities point to anti-blasphemy in Pakistan as politicised.
The UNSDGs and Transition to a Sustainable Economy through Post-growth Approach
For the UNSDGs to transcend their self-limiting internal contradictions, they need to be reconceptualized as visions in the making and not as goals or targets.
America the Beautiful, or the Exclusive? The Other in US Nature Conservation
Despite its goals to re-envision nature conservation and to make it more inclusive, the AtB campaign keeps marginalising and silencing Indigenous peoples in the US.
The Violence of Our Imaginations: War, Women, Nation
Perception of women as a nation’s reproducers justifies and motivates strategic sexual violence against them in, and even after, ethno-nationalist wars.
Nasser’s Ideology vs Practice: Postcolonial Critique of Egypt’s Yemen Intervention
Nasser subjugated Yemen to a dialectic of security and development, thereby rationalising the expedition’s imperiality and massive violence.
Horizontal Partnership for Gender-responsive Localisation of Humanitarian Aid
The key to efficient localisation is addressing the intra-local horizontal power hierarchies capable of simultaneously fostering gender-responsive localisation.
From Deployment to Withdrawal: The C-17 Transport Plane in the Afghanistan War
Whose security the C-17 promoted or endangered varied, depending on U.S. political objectives and other components of the war’s security assemblage.
