Gender, Governance and Feminist Analysis
This edited volume presents critical scholarship analysing governance practices in diverse jurisdictions in Europe and North America, at multiple scales, and in relation to several different arenas of policy and practice. The contributors address shortcomings in the mainstream literature on governance within the discipline of political science.
The volume as a whole is marked by geographical and topical diversity. However, what the individual chapters have in common is that each considers whether and how gender, racialised identity and/or other axes of marginalisation are visible within the conceptualisations and/or practices of governance under discussion.
Drawing together insights and conceptual tools from both feminist and post-structuralist frameworks in analysing governance practices, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and graduates who engage with feminist and/or post-structural analysis of policy and governance. It will also be of use to critical policy scholars in anthropology, geography, sociology, and womens studies.
Christine Hudson is a Professor in Political Science at Ume University, Sweden.
Malin Rnnblom is Associate Professor in Political Science, a Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies, Ume University and Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Karlstad University, Sweden.
Katherine Teghtsoonian is Professor Emerita at the University of Victoria, Canada.
Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics
Series Editor: Laura J. Shepherd, UNSW Australia
This series aims to publish books that work with, and through, feminist insights on global politics, and illuminate the ways in which gender functions not just as a marker of identity but also as a constitutive logic in global political practices. The series welcomes scholarship on any aspect of global political practices, broadly conceived, that pays attention to the ways in which gender is central to, (re)produced in, and is productive of, such practices.
There is growing recognition both within the academy and in global political institutions that gender matters in and to the practices of global politics. From the governance of peace and security, to the provision of funds for development initiatives, via transnational advocacy networks linked through strategic engagement with new forms of media, these processes have a gendered dimension that is made visible through empirically grounded and theoretically sophisticated feminist work.
Masculinity and New War
The Gendered Dynamics of Contemporary Armed Conflict
David Duriesmith
Why Women Rebel
Understanding Womens Participation in Armed Rebel Groups
Alexis Leanna Henshaw
Feminism, Prostitution and the State
The Politics of Neo-Abolitionism
Edited by Eils Ward & Gillian Wylie
Gender, Governance and Feminist Analysis
Missing in Action?
Edited by Christine Hudson, Malin Rnnblom and Katherine Teghtsoonian
Gender, Governance and Feminist Analysis
Missing in Action?
Edited by
Christine Hudson, Malin Rnnblom and Katherine Teghtsoonian
First published 2017
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For my mum, Kathleen Hudson (19222015) with love, and for my sons, Anton and Stefan, may they continue to be feminists CH
For my children, Agnes and Edvard, with hopes for a feminist future MR
For my dad, Ed Teghtsoonian (19242015), with gratitude KT
Sara Carlbaum is Doctor in Political Science and a researcher at Ume University, Sweden. Her research centres on education policy and governance, with a focus on evaluation, school inspection and marketisation. Particular interests are discourse theory, social justice, gender, rights and equity.
Christine Hudson is Professor in Political Science at Ume University, Sweden. She has researched on a wide number of policy areas, including education, culture, city planning and urban and regional policy, particularly from a feminist perspective. She has worked with emotional and visual dimensions in studying womens citizenship in the city and in relation to feelings of fear and safety.
Kirstin Locke is Senior Lecturer in the School of Critical Studies of Education, University of Auckland. Her research explores educational issues through philosophical lenses. Kirsten was a recipient of the Early Career Research Excellence Award at the University of Auckland. She is currently leading a comparative research project that explores gendered career trajectories in Danish and New Zealand universities.
Janet Newman is Professor Emeritus at the Open University, and in her research she brings feminist and cultural perspectives to analyses of governance, politics and power. Recent publications have focused on activist engagements with shifting regimes of governance, the emotional turn in governing and the politics of austerity.
Otto Penz is a sociologist and works currently as senior researcher and lecturer at the University of Vienna. Between 2000 and 2012 he was adjunct associate professor at the University of Calgary. His research areas include sociology of the body, beauty and emotions, sociology of work and political sociology.
Malin Rnnblom is Associate Professor in Political Science and a Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies, dividing her time between Karlstad and Ume Universities. Her main research interests are related to critical policy studies, especially in the fields of gender equality policy, growth policy and regional, rural and urban policy, but she also takes a great interest in feminist political theory.
Birgit Sauer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Vienna. Her research areas include feminist state theory, theories of governance and governmentality, affect and state transformation and comparative gender policies.
