Paul Kirby

Queen Mary, University of London, School of Politics and International Relations, Faculty Member

London School of Economics and Political Science, Centre for Women Peace and Security, Research Fellow

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I am Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations and a Fellow of the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London. I also remain a Visiting Fellow with the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Co-Director of the UKRI GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub.

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University of Oxford

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UNL - New University of Lisbon

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University of the Basque Country, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

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University of Toronto

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Manchester Metropolitan University

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Universidad de Cadiz

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University of Michigan

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Why Metrics Cannot Measure Research Quality: A Response to the HEFCE Consultation

Update 24th June: 7,500+ views, 100s of shares, 200+ signatories! And a new post with some respon... more

Open Access: HEFCE, REF2020 and the Threat to Academic Freedom

This is the text of a document prepared by Meera and me on Article Processing Charges as currentl... more

Women, Peace and Security: A Critical Cartography

New Directions in Women, Peace and Security, 2020

This introductory chapter offers a mapping of the field of research to which we – the authors of ... more This introductory chapter offers a mapping of the field of research to which we – the authors of the chapter and the editors of the volume – hope that the volume itself will contribute. Using the motif of ‘new directions’, we chart historical and contemporary scholarship on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS), tracing avenues of enquiry, streams of argument, and architectures of practice across geographical, temporal, and institutional scales. In the course of our mapping, we identify overlapping waves of WPS scholarship, beginning with those who came to study WPS primarily through peace activism and women’s movements (including those who engaged directly with the politics and processes that produced UNSCR 1325), through the emergence of ‘WPS’ as a discrete object of analysis, and to the current state of art represented by the contributions to this volume. In doing so we show how WPS has gone from peace activism at the margins to a more significant landmark in the peace and security environment than perhaps anyone had envisaged. This cataloguing constitutes the first substantive section of the chapter. In the second section of the chapter, we map the contours of the contemporary field of study, proposing three new horizons of WPS scholarship: new themes; new actors; and new methods of encounter. In the final section, we conclude our cartography with a discussion of the ways in which the more recent contributions to WPS scholarship and practice are producing interesting new contestations, tensions, and constellations of power, and re-situate the new politics of WPS in relation to the geographical, temporal and institutional scales which will shape its future trajectories.

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The Globalization of World Politics, 2019

This chapter examines the power of gender in global politics. It considers the different ways in ... more This chapter examines the power of gender in global politics. It considers the different ways in which gender shapes world politics today, whether men dominate global politics at the expense of women, whether international—and globalized—gender norms should be radically changed, and if so, how. The chapter also discusses sex and gender in international perspective, along with global gender relations and the gendering of global politics, global security, and the global economy. Two case studies are presented, one dealing with the participation of female guerrillas in El Salvador's civil war, and the other with neo-slavery and care labour in Asia. There is also an Opposing Opinions box that asks whether war is inherently masculine.

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