Synopsis
Bringing together a team of international scholars, this volume provides a foundational guide to queer methodologies in the study of political violence and conflict.
About the Authors
Jamie J. Hagen is Hagen is a Lecturer in Global Politics at the University of Manchester. Previously she was a Lecturer in International Relations at Queen’s University Belfast where she also co-founded the Centre of Gender in Politics. Hagen is an expert on international attention to LGBTQ+ populations in security studies, specifically focusing on how Women, Peace, and Security initiatives can better include LGBTQ voices and experiences. Her research in this field is published in or forthcoming in International Affairs, Critical Studies in Security, European Journal of Politics and Gender, and Journal of Gender Studies as well as in the Washington Post, London School of Economics’ Women Peace and Security Blog, and other outlets. She is currently lead researcher of the British Academy Innovation Fellowship project Queering Women, Peace and Security (WPS): Improving Engagement with Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LBTQ) women in WPS Programming.
Samuel Ritholtz is Departmental Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, in association with St Hilda’s College. Previously, they were Part-time Assistant Professor and Max Weber Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute. Samuel earned their DPhil and MSc from the Refugee Studies Centre in the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford. Their research interests include contemporary political theories of violence, marginality, and war with a focus on LGBTIQ+ experiences of crisis, conflict, and displacement. They have held visiting research fellowships at the Hertie School (Centre for International Security) in Berlin and at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. They have worked for the United Nations, in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, as well as for human rights organizations in Washington DC, New York, and Buenos Aires. Samuel is the co-author of the forthcoming monograph, Toward a Queer Theory of Refuge. Their work has appeared in academic journals such as the American Political Science Review, Politics & Gender, and Global Studies Quarterly and in media outlets, such as the Guardian, the Washington Post, and Slate.
Andrew Delatolla is a Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Leeds. His research examines the global politics of race and sexuality in the context of the Middle East. He is the author of Civilization and the Making of the State in Lebanon and Syria (2021) and Sexuality as a Standard of Civilization (ISQ, 2020).
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