Opinion – How Polish Women Fight Their Right-Wing Government
The situation in Poland is a symptom of the global backlash against women’s rights. At the same time, it shows the power of peaceful protest and the importance of feminist solidarity.
Opinion – COVID-19’s War on Feminism in the U.S.
The pandemic has shone a light on the reality that institutionalized sexism is still prevalent in the United States and around the world.
Review – Vernacular Sovereignties: Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics
The book maps the intersecting forms of oppression Indigenous women and subverts colonial histories through the narration of resistance.
Interview – Harini Amarasuriya
Harini Amarasuriya discusses social exclusion, stigma, discrimination and resistance in Sri Lanka and how the women’s movement and radical Christians influenced dissent.
What Can IR Learn from the Politics of Gender in the Global South?
Feminist resistance teaches how to rescue social movements beyond the imaginary of dominant structures that can aggregate new values for the international community.
Interview – Dean Cooper-Cunningham
Dean Cooper-Cunningham discusses the benefits of using visual methods in IR, responses to Russian political queerphobia and the visuality of resistance and (in)security.
Tears and Laughter: Affective Failure and Mis/recognition in Feminist IR Research
No one knows how or to what extent affect and failure will enter your research. So it may be reassuring to know that affect failure is not a failure of research practice.
International Women’s Day Interviews
To celebrate International Women’s Day we asked some of our former interviewees what we can do to forge a gender equal discipline.
Interview – Swati Parashar
Swati Parashar discusses the importance of International Women’s Day, barriers to feminist solidarity, #MeToo, postcolonial feminism and challenging patriarchal power.
Review – The Politics of Compassion
This fascinating book is a major contribution to understanding the politics of humanitarianism and citizens’ agency in the current international neo-liberal global order.
