Sexual Assault Silences in War Memorialisation: The Lesson of Vivian Bullwinkel
The display of Bullwinkel’s dress is a symbol of the gap between wartime experiences and their commemorative representations.
Gender and Weaponization of Healthcare in Conflict: A Feminist Discourse Analysis
The gendered analysis of weaponization of healthcare reveals how when it is combined with sexual violence women are exposed to a compounded form of violence.
Artificial Influence: Exploring AI’s Impact on Political and Social Realities
The spread of disinformation campaigns challenges the integrity of public discourse, democratic processes, and social harmony.
Preventing Apocalyptic Futures: The Need for Alternatives to Development
The technocratic, top-down approach of development reproduces a hierarchical ordering of knowledge forms, which subalternises the epistemic forces of everyday actors.
Turning Domestic into Political: The Case of Female Self-immolation in Iran
Patriarchal values fuel conflict, confine Iranian women to home, and impact their security, driving some to choose self-immolation. Yet, some also find agency in that.
Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina show fundamental issues in the international efforts of peace-building and transitional justice during the post-war reconstruction period.
From 9/11 to Humanise Palestine: Investigating the Terror of Grievability
Reproduced violence in videos and images registers an order of grievability that fails to recognise the value of lives in the Middle East as lives.
Women’s Rights in North Korea: Reputational Defense or Labor Mobilization?
The plight of North Korean women is evident in the Kim regime’s exploitation of their labor and lack of protection for their rights, despite its rhetoric.
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women’s Failures in Fiji
Fiji fails to decrease the occurrence of gender-based violence despite the ratification of the CEDAW due to several intersecting factors.
Do Human Rights Protect or Threaten Security?
Human rights discourse is premised upon the deleterious assumption that humans are separate from and supreme to nature.
