GENDER AND POWER-SHARING
I am completing a decade-long research collaboration with Allison McCulloch, funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant.
Drawing on fieldwork interviews and new research, we have developed an approach to gender-inclusive power-sharing that brings together lessons of ethnopolitical power-sharing from archetypal cases like Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina with new policies around the ‘women, peace, and security’ (WPS) agenda.
Our forthcoming book, Gender, Peace, and Power-Sharing, will be published by University of Toronto Press—stay tuned!
INTERSECTIONALITY
As the inaugural director of the Institute for Intersectionality Studies at the University of Alberta, I am the principal investigator for a SSHRC-funded project titled Developing an Intersectionality “Toolkit”: A Feminist Analysis of Intersectionality Mainstreaming Through Toolkits, Training Modules and Resource Guides.
Packaged as a toolkit, intersectionality promises to realize commitments to gender mainstreaming, a concept introduced by the United Nations and adopted widely in the mid-1990s to integrate a gender perspective into institutional life, but with closer attention to challenging interlocking systems of power.
While the development of intersectional toolkits marks a potentially exciting turn in social inequality analysis, important questions remain about the scope, effectiveness, and transformational potential of toolkits. The project develops the first systematic, cross-sector scoping study of intersectionality toolkits and in-depth analysis of selected programs and resource guides.
CODEPINK ALERT!
I am and the principal investigator for the project CodePink Alert! Transnational Feminist Peace Activism in the Post 9/11 Period, funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant.
As part of this book, I have interviewed feminist anti-war activists in Canada, the US, Palestine and Israel and Northern Ireland about their experiences organizing for peace. I’m completing a manuscript that charts the emergence, growth, and demise of feminist cross-community activism titled: Feminist Solidarity in Conflict: Identity Politics and the (Re)Making of Women’s Peace Coalitions.