A5023732073- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- Gender Politics and Representation
- International Law and Human Rights
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
- Human Rights and Development
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism
- Sex and Gender in Healthcare
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Irish and British Studies
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
- Ombudsman and Human Rights
- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Mentoring and Academic Development
- Political Systems and Governance
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- International Human Rights and Reproductive Law
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Emotional Labor in Professions
- Australian History and Society
UNSW Sydney
2013-2025
The George Institute for Global Health
2025
Australian Human Rights Commission
2019-2024
The University of Sydney
2000-2009
New York University Press
1981-1998
Chitose Institute of Science and Technology
1993-1998
Cambridge University Press
1998
Keele University
1998
Kinokuniya
1995
ECW Press (Canada)
1993
New institutionalism (NI) may no longer qualify as being ‘new’, but since re-emphasizing institutions a central explanatory variable in political analysis over two decades ago, it continues to provide scholars with useful perspective through which analyse dynamics and outcomes that shape everyday life. The renewed focus on has rebalanced the structure/agency scales back toward former without losing important insights about role impact of actors. NI allowed for greater understanding...
New Institutionalism has shown that the ‘rules of game’ are crucial to structuring political life in terms constraining and enabling actors influencing outcomes. A limitation this approach, however, been its overemphasis on formal rules, with much less attention paid how informal rules work alongside conjunction institutions shape This article contributes an emerging literature highlights importance by bringing into focus one element hidden these debates – influence gender norms practices...
Why develop a comparative politics of gender? As the critical perspectives in this section demonstrate, there are many answers to question. I would like focus here on two reasons: first, for gaining deeper understanding operations political institutions, and second, explaining relationship between these institutions social actors, including those pursuing gender equality agenda. To be specific, essay argues not just but institutions. The discussion focuses possibility using...
Acknowledgments Acronyms 1 Gender and Political Institutions in Australia Canada 2 Feminists Canada: Identities, Ideas, Strategies, Structures 3 The Feminist Electoral Project: Working against the Grain 4 Femocrat Strategy: Challenging Bureaucratic Norms 5 Constitutional Legal Realms: Creating New Spaces 6 Federalism: Playing Multilevel Game 7 Institutions: A Two-Way Street References Index
This article examines the mixed gender justice outcomes of International Criminal Court’s (ICC) first case, The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, and argues that they were influenced by competing institutions: older gender-biased norms international law new formal rules ICC’s Rome Statute. Using a feminist institutionalist framework, suggests informal institutions work together in multiple ways to produce different outcomes, understanding operation institutions, it is as important search...
The construction industry remains the most male dominated sector in Australia. Several decades of formal gender equality initiatives by government and business have failed to bring about any meaningful change hierarchical numerical representation women sector. Drawing on new institutionalism, particularly concepts 'robustness' 'revisability', nature intent policies programs that impact are analysed two large Australian multinational firms. Through in-depth interviews with senior management a...
The construction industry is the most male‐dominated in Australia, despite companies implementing formal policies and initiatives to address this. While previous research has examined role of workplace culture as a barrier women industry, our investigates informal institutions play obstructing gender equity construction. We examine gendered dimension (practices, narratives norms) two multinational Australian using feminist institutional (FI) theory rapid ethnography. findings show that...
Just Advocacy? Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation. Edited by Wendy S. Hesford Kozol. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2005. 310 pp. $24.94.The transnational dimensions women's rights are an important emerging area analysis. provides timely critical insights into this study. This edited book is unique in that it applies a cultural lens to study political questions relating rights, transnationalism, representation, which conventionally...
Australia needs to align with other nations and implement sex gender analysis in health medical research Growing evidence from pre-clinical1 clinical research2 demonstrates that females/women males/men can differ significantly susceptibility common diseases response treatment, including efficacy adverse events.3 The mechanisms underlying differences will include epigenetic, genetic, endocrine, environmental, social, economic behavioural factors. Hence, ignoring across the lifecycle — grant...
This article advances the concept of ‘feminist critical friends’ as a descriptor for those studying efforts ‘insider’ gender justice advocates working to transform governance structures and advance reform agendas within political, social, economic military institutions. In refining feminist friendship, we reject perspectives that overstate failures ‘co-option’ comes with engagement, while also resisting voluntarist versions cede too much influence insiders. We pay attention to, take...
Revising public health policy based on new data does not happen automatically. This is acutely relevant to the now undeniable evidence that many diseases develop differently between sexes and may also be affected by gender. Current medical practices across globe generally fail cater for sex gender effects in common diseases. Inadequate frameworks guide comprehensive inclusion of research jeopardises scientific rigour ultimately they underpin. To ensure Australian fit-for-purpose, we realised...
Journal Article The 'Femocrat' Strategy: Expanding the Repertoire of Feminist Activists Get access Louise Chappell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 1, 1 January 2002, Pages 85–98, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/55.1.85 Published: 01 2002
In recent years it has been claimed by human rights advocates that an "unholy alliance" emerged internationally to counter the equality claims of transnational women's movement. Using literature on social movements and counter-movements, this article assesses interaction between what are conceived as state non-state-based conservative patriarchal actors with movement at a series UN conferences throughout 1990s into new millennium. It suggests counter-network indeed outlines prevailing...
A comparative politics of gender offers an opportunity to consider in detail the operation within political institutions. As such, it contributes a deeper understanding roles and experiences men women institutions, policies, laws norms that are outcomes these relationship between institutions social actors. This essay proposes multi-directional strategy for undertaking institutional research includes taking account similarities differences across states, states international space as well...
What difference do new actors and institutions make to gender justice outcomes? This article explores this question through an examination of the objectives influence “new” international on design implementation victims' rights provisions contained in 1998 Rome Statute International Criminal Court's (ICC). Highlighting role formal informal institutions, argues that during its first decade operation, ICC has produced mixed outcomes terms treatment victims, especially conflict-related sexual...
AbstractAs sexual violence in conflict – predominantly affecting women and girls appears to increase prevalence, gender justice advocates are calling for a reparations model that is not only restorative, but also, more critically, preventative or transformative. This article asks whether the mandate of International Criminal Court (ICC) Trust Fund Victims has potential address pre-conflict structural inequalities often contribute harm experienced during post-conflict. Drawing on social...
In 2012, the Australian Human Rights Centre at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia hosted an international conference which marked first ten years operation Internati...
Abstract Increasing women's representation in male‐dominated work sectors remains a persistent problem. This paper reorientates the focus from underrepresentation to male overrepresentation and privilege, identify compare causal mechanisms between of men two traditionally places Australia: politics construction. By applying feminist institutionalism, masculinities, it argues is linked gendered rules that uphold hegemonic masculinities which produce masculine privilege supports gender...
Does federalism make a difference to policy making in the area of family and domestic violence (FDV)? This article explores this question through comparison Australia New Zealand whose state architecture aside from is very similar. It argues that Australian has provided laboratories for innovative continual articulation progressive response FDV. By contrast, subnational experiments have occurred, but continuous responses been less evident because centralization accentuates need left-wing...
AbstractMany conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region have included sexual violence crimes targeted primarily against women. However, comparison to other regions, states been reluctant embrace international law innovations end impunity for such into future, as evidenced by their unwillingness become signatories Rome Statute of International Criminal Court. Of 39 countries constituting region, only 17—less than half—have joined Statute. This article initially surveys some reasons non-ratification...
The construction industry is known to be highly masculinised and have work practices detrimental employees’ wellbeing. Drawing on feminist institutional theory a rapid ethnographic approach in two multinationals Australia, we examine the relationship between gendered nature of workplace wellbeing for professional women men employed industry. findings reveal that adhering ‘rules use’ negatively associated with usually endured silence. We also identify ways which rules different effects women....
In March 2012, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo from the Democratic Republic of Congo was first person to be tried and convicted by International Criminal Court (ICC). The charges for which found guilty – conscription, enlistment use child soldiers belied a range other crimes that were documented as part conflict in his militia involved, including acts sexual gender-based violence. decision ICC's Office Prosecutor not fully investigate, or include for, these latter case set train what can described...