Queering Transitional Justice: Global, Regional, and Local Perspectives

This project focuses on the relationship between global, regional, and local transitional justice (TJ) processes. In particular, I am interested in what queering TJ entails across these scales, and how queer vocabularies and justice vernaculars travel. Queering involves not only scrutinising where and how LGBTQIA+ people and questions of gender and sexuality are (re)presented, but also works to challenge taken for granted assumptions about TJ, including its cisheteronormative, colonial, and legal foundations.  

Queering Governance and International Law: The Case of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

This project, the focus of my doctoral research, focuses on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). In it, I develop a queer approach to governance and international at/of the ICTY, identifying and deconstructing how discourses of gender, sexuality, and violence are (re)produced at/by the ICTY. Drawing on an analysis of various legal texts (trial judgements, court transcripts, annual reports, film documentaries, ICTY websites), I interrogate the cis-heteronormative discourses and civilisational logics through which victims, perpetrators, and adjudicators are legible. I find that legal subjects are represented as variously feminised, hyper-heteromasculinised, homosexualised, and queer, and that 'Balkan' subjects are gendered and sexualised  by the ICTY in ways that render them othered, un-European, and perverse. International law, in the case of the ICTY, is thus a source of violence, but it is also a site of (queer) potential for victims and survivors who call for legal justice.

Care Ethics and the Academy

This project consists of two parts:

1) An exploration of how feminist academics within political science, broadly conceived, understand care ethics in the context of their research and in relation to the concept of critical friendship. This is the subject of a recently published article co-authored with Laura J. Shepherd and Jihyun Kim.

2) An edited collection that brings together stories and reflections of care(lessness) in the academy. This will be co-edited by Sara Motta, Monika Barthwal-Datta, Jihyun Kim, and Siân Perry, and is under contract with Rowman & Littlefield.

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