Aisling Swaine is Assistant Professor of Gender and Security at the Department of Gender Studies, where she teaches primarily on the MSc in Women, Peace and Security. Aisling’s research interests span a range of thematic areas under the women, peace and security agenda: conflict-related violence against women, humanitarianism, transitional justice, peacebuilding and institutional strategies towards gender equality. Her book, Conflict-Related Violence Against Women: Transforming Transition will be published by Cambridge University Press, in November 2017.
Emma Spruce is a Teaching Fellow in Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights. Her research explores the intersections of sexual geography, narrative studies, feminist theory, and queer theory. Emma’s work interrogates the spatial and social imaginaries constituted through narratives about changing sexual worlds, focusing in particular on progress narratives about LGBT inclusion, and their amenability to racist and classist exclusions. As well as engaging critically with dominant sexual narratives, she explores the potential of 'small stories' as a site of critique and a means of fostering intimacy, relating this to strategies of resistance.
Ece Kocabicak is currently working as an LSE Fellow in the Department of Gender Studies. Her doctoral research (Lancaster University, 2017) focuses on varieties of patriarchies and capitalisms, the relationship between gender and class-based inequalities, and the significance of political collective subjects for social transformation. She further examines the processes and factors that sustain gender-based exclusionary strategies in Muslim majority countries. Previous research has included: the relationship between development and gender inequality, and the implications of technological changes for household production and gender-based segregation in the labour market.
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