Women, Culture, and International Relations, by Vivienne Jabri and Eleanor O’Gorman (eds.)

 

The Contributors

 

Vivienne Jabri is senior lecturer in international relations and director of the University of Kents’s London Centre of International Relations. She is author of Discourses on Violence and Mediating Conflict, and coeditor (with Stephen Chan) of Mediation in South Africa. She is currently writing a book on constructions of self and normative theory in international relations.

Eleanor O’Gorman, based at the University of Cambridge, completed a Ph.D. on gender, resistance, and Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle in 1999. She previously lectured in politics and development at the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia. Her primary research interests include feminist theory in international relations, conflict studies, and development.

Stephen Chan is dean of the Faculty of Humanities and professor of international relations and ethics at the Nottingham Trent University. He has published a wide range of works on Southern Africa, including Kaunda and Southern Africa: Image and Reality in Foreign Policy and Exporting Apartheid: Foreign Policies in Southern Africa. Among his publications on culture and international theory is Towards a Multicultural Roshamon Paradigm in International Relations. His poetry collections include Crimson Rain.

Nicholas Higgins, a Leverhulme research fellow, is currently completing his Ph.D. at the University of Kent at Canterbury; his thesis topic is “The Subject of Conflict: Mayan Indians and the Modern Mexican State.” His publications include “A Question of Style: The Politics and Ethics of Cultural Conversation in Rorty and Connolly” and “Mexico’s Mayan Conflict: The Zapatista Uprising and the Poetics of Cultural Resistance.”

Kimberly Hutchings is senior lecturer in politics at the University of Edinburgh. She has published a range of work on normative international theory and feminist philosophy and is the author of Kant, Critique, and Politics. She is currently working on a book on normative international theory and one on Hegel and feminist philosophy.

Nalini Persram is lecturer in politics at Trinity College, Dublin. She is currently working on a comparative study of immigration policy and colonial ideology in France, Britain, and the Netherlands with respect to political culture, gender, “race,” and the Guianese community in Europe. She has published in the areas of feminist theory, Caribbean nationalist identity and politics, and postcolonial subjectivity and is coeditor, with Jenny Edkins and Veronique Pin-Fat, of Sovereignty and Subjectivity.

Sarah C. White is lecturer in development studies at the University of East Anglia. Her main writings reflect on gender and class in rural Bangladesh, the nongovernmental sector in Bangladesh, the significance of masculinities for gender and development, and the connections between theology and development. She is author of Arguing with the Crocodile: Gender and Class in Bangladesh and coauthor, with Romy Tiongco, of Doing Theology and Development: Meeting the Challenge of Poverty. She is currently writing a book on gender, race, and development.

 

Women, Culture, and International Relations