Elisabeth Prügl
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 127641 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elisabeth Prügl |
| NOMBRES | Elisabeth |
| APELLIDO | Prügl |
| FIRMA | PRÜGL E |
| AFILIACIONES | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4363-3540 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 65 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 511 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
The wartime care economy
In this paper we propose the notion of wartime care economy in order to make visible the way Ukrainians, and Ukrainian women in particular, ensure social reproduction, that is the everyday survival and flourishing of people as well as the reproduction of society. Existing accounts of war economies often focus on the way states restructure their economies to enable war and on illicit activities used either to sustain the fighting or to survive. Th…
Journal bending”
Violences of capitalism/political economies of war
The triumph of anti-genderism
The costs of (not) building alternative visions of the world(s)
The damages done by the “anti-gender movement”
Queer, feminist, de/postcolonial, science
Perhaps living as we are in a breathtakingly violent and violently fast-paced world, it might be helpful to think through efforts to know and comprehend this world from a queer, feminist, de/postcolonial perspective.These are projects that inspire us to take a pause to look up and around and ask: did I remember to breathe today?Did I somehow manage to live as a free subject today, and did this intersect with others being able to also breathe and …
The messiness of the global “political” and the “personal”
Feminist resistance as a bulwark for democracy
Social reproduction, women’s labour and systems of life
This conversation brings together feminist scholars from various backgrounds and epistemological traditions around a central topic in feminist debates that is today more relevant than ever, social reproduction. It begins by examining social reproduction as a concept and its entanglements with the dynamics of global capitalism from human geography and feminist international political economy perspectives. We ask, what does the lens of social repro…
The important work of theorizing the everyday, the small
Dying for life
What do we need feminist solidarity for
On violence
A global feminist public sphere
A global feminist public sphere?Becoming more inclusive, appreciating and negotiating difference, and counteracting the coloniality of knowledgethese goals have been central for IFJP editors from the inception of the journal at the turn of the millennium.Twenty-three years on, the list of the top ten countries from which our submissions originate now includes China, India, Brazil, and Turkey; however, IFJP remains an Anglophone journal whose auth…
Gender as a cause of violent conflict
The article argues that gender can be understood to cause violent conflict, although the literatures on civil war and conflict transformation are largely silent on the matter. The problem is an understanding of causation as explaining regularities, which fails to grasp how gender, in intersection with other markers of difference, is productive and performative. Building on philosophical realism, the article introduces the concept of social mechan…
No end to violence? Conflicts, emergencies, resistances
Rethinking masculinities, militarization, and unequal development
Gender and the micro-dynamics of violent conflicts
Conventional stories about conflicts often miss the role of everyday practices in escalating and de-escalating violence and how intersecting social dynamics of gender, ethnicity, age, and religion shape these practices. In this article, we introduce the Special Section on Gender and the Micro-Dynamics of Violent Conflicts. Situating the section within the scholarship on gender and violent conflict, we discuss the opportunities and paradoxes opene…
Woman, Life, Freedom”
Questioning war
Nurturing a robust dialogic and collaborative space of accountability and transformation
Amnesty International and Women's Rights
Gender in Peacebuilding
Around the world, people and communities transform violent conflicts and build peace in various ways. Such local practices have been widely documented in various disciplines but have rarely been studied in the field of peace and conflict studies. These practices highlight the ways in which peacebuilding involves various axes of difference that intersect with one another, including gender, age, class, ethnicity, religion and political ideologies. …
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
As the ruins of neoliberalism – to use Wendy Brown’s felicitous phrase (Brown 2019) – have become starkly visible in these times of pandemic, understanding feminist entanglements with neoliberalism
Neoliberalising Feminism
There recently has been an avalanche of critiques of the way in which feminism has gone to bed with neoliberal capitalism and become an instrument of governmentality. In this paper, I look at these phenomena as processes of a 'neoliberalisation of feminism'. I illustrate such neoliberalisation by introducing women's empowerment projects run by transnational consumer products companies, typically in partnership with public development actors. Unde…
Diversity Management and Gender Mainstreaming as Technologies of Government
Diversity management and gender mainstreaming can be considered technologies of government in the Foucaultian sense; that is, they are technologies that guide people to conduct themselves in a particular manner; their purpose is the “conduct of conduct.” This article illustrates the value of applying a Foucaultian “analytics of government” to generate insights on the effects of inserting feminist knowledge into institutional contexts through the …
Neoliberalism with a Feminist Face
Neoliberalism has been discredited as a result of proliferating crises (financial, ecological, care) and mounting inequality. This paper examines the growing research on gender at the World Bank as a site for the construction of a new hegemonic consensus around neoliberalism. Drawing on a computer-assisted inductive analysis of thirty-four Bank publications on gender since 2001, the paper documents Bank efforts to establish a positive relationshi…
Feminism and Constructivism
The discipline of international relations (IR) is witnessing a "constructivist turn." In this article, we argue that the new preoccupation with constructivism provides a unique opportunity to further understanding between feminism and the IR mainstream. Feminism and constructivism share a commitment to an ontology of becoming that can serve as a common basis for conversation. Yet there are also profound differences between feminists and construct…
Equality means business? Governing gender through transnational public-private partnerships
From the World Bank's ‘gender equality is smart economics’ to The Economist's ‘womenomics’ and Nike's ‘girl effect’, feminism seems to have well and truly penetrated the business world. Government action on behalf of gender equality is well institutionalized but private corporations appear as a new actor in this cause. This article asks: What do businesses and their public partners do in order to advance gender equality? What motivates their enga…
Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping
Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping. Edited by Dyan Mazurana, Angela Raven-Roberts, and Jane Parpart. Lanham, MD, and New York: Rowman & Littlefield. 2005. 304 pp. 31.95 paper.Framed in the language of peace (making, keeping, building), the United Nations military interventions of the 1990s have spawned feminist demands for participation, together with critiques of the sexist and gendered practices that have characterized these missions. In Gender…
Microentrepreneurs and homeworkers
Untenable dichotomies
Political Economy is inundated with foundational dichotomies, which constitute central concepts in its theorizing. Feminist scholarship has problematized the gender subtext of these dichotomies and the resulting blind spots, including the positioning of women’s labour, processes of reproduction, and private households as marginal to the economy. The paper offers a reading of contemporary writings in Feminist Political Economy that is attuned to d…
Does Gender Mainstreaming Work
The wide adoption of gender mainstreaming has rekindled debates about feminist engagements with the State. The purpose of this article is to provide a clearer specification of power politics in such engagements and develop the conceptual tools to assess the utility of feminist strategies. Drawing on feminist state theory and comparing two feminist strategies (gender mainstreaming and the equal rights strategy), this article develops an analysis o…
The poverty of neoliberalized feminism
Feminist ideas have entered the neoliberal agricultural development agenda, including increasingly ubiquitous public-private partnerships and businesses. Rhetorically committed to gender equality, these new development actors have reduced equality to a matter of numbers, seeking to include women in their projects while disregarding intersectionally gendered power relations that suffuse any development context. This article seeks to illustrate how…
Introduction
The rise of gender expertise and gender experts as a new profession is a significant and highly controversial phenomenon of contemporary feminist politics. This introductory article provides a contextualisation of this phenomenon, a short review of the literature and a theoretical specification of gender expertise, drawing on insights from the professionalisation and expertise literature. We highlight the importance of studying the politics of ge…
Gender expertise in global governance
This article conceptualises gender expertise in global governance as a transnational field. We propose two theoretical shifts: a depersonalisation to understand expertise as a field rather than experts as individuals or a group of people; and a re-conceptualisation of expertise from a depoliticised body of knowledge towards expertise as a performative and intrinsically political practice. Drawing on qualitative data, we identify practices of boun…
Feminist International Relations
Feminist international relations is situated uneasily within a subfield of political science, on the one hand, and within an interdisciplinary literature on globalization, on the other. Emerging in the 1990s from a critique of the realist and rationalist IR canon, feminist IR research has diversified considerably, including different lines of theoretical and empirical inquiry and drawing on a range of methods. Different emphases emerge in three f…
Productive farmers and vulnerable food securers
With gender equality becoming a key feature of the global food security agenda, international organizations have produced a rich body of knowledge on gender. This paper argues that such gender expertise generates political effects through identity constructions, problem definitions and rationalities. We critically analyse 59 documents relating to gender and food security in the South written in international organizations between 2000 and 2018. O…
Making gender equality happen
Making gender equality happen: knowledge, change and resistance in EU gender mainstreaming." Critical Policy Studies, 12(4), pp. 491–492
Agricultural and land commercialization - feminist and rights perspectives
The article introduces the Forum on Commercializing Agriculture/Reorganizing Gender, which reports findings from DEMETER project, a collaboration of scholars from Cambodia, Ghana and Switzerland. The project examines how agriculture and food security policies have advanced or hindered gender equality and the right to food; analyzes the role of human rights-based accountability mechanisms in this; and maps gendered changes in livelihoods in situat…
Feminist international relations
The article identifies some research agendas in feminist security studies and global political economy in a historical context of political instability, power transition and neoliberal capitalism. These encompass explanations of: the relationship between gender and violence, including their co-constitution; the promises and pitfalls of the United Nations’ women, peace and security agenda; the mapping of labour relations and expropriations in the …
Gender and War
War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa. By Joshua S. Goldstein. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 523 pages. $40.00 cloth
Feminism and the Postmodern State
This article explores the role of the multilevel and decentered European state in reproducing masculine domination through its rural development policies. I look at the implementation of gender mainstreaming in the European Union’s LEADER program in two regions in Germany. I argue that the postmodern state’s role in reproducing masculine domination depends on gender compromises that have been institutionalized previously in local contexts. Challe…
What do we need feminist solidarity for
Performative technologies
The article draws on insights from feminist literature, science and technology studies (STS) and governmentality studies to explore how technologies introduced through agricultural research for development (ar4d) participate in performing gender. Drawing on gender audits of two international agricultural research institutions, we discuss the performativity of three types of technologies: material technologies intended to increase agricultural pro…
Toward a Feminist Political Economics
Feminist critiques of globalization have received insufficient attention in public discourse.Spike Peterson's RVP framework integrates feminist scholarship in a way that adds punch to such critiques. Its main contribution consists in bringing into view women's labor in the 'reproductive' economy. A shortcoming is that it retains the opposition between production and reproduction. The RVP framework is built on a constructivist ontology that allows…
The triumph of anti-genderism
Social reproduction, women’s labour and systems of life
This conversation brings together feminist scholars from various backgrounds and epistemological traditions around a central topic in feminist debates that is today more relevant than ever, social reproduction. It begins by examining social reproduction as a concept and its entanglements with the dynamics of global capitalism from human geography and feminist international political economy perspectives. We ask, what does the lens of social repro…
Gender and the micro-dynamics of violent conflicts
Conventional stories about conflicts often miss the role of everyday practices in escalating and de-escalating violence and how intersecting social dynamics of gender, ethnicity, age, and religion shape these practices. In this article, we introduce the Special Section on Gender and the Micro-Dynamics of Violent Conflicts. Situating the section within the scholarship on gender and violent conflict, we discuss the opportunities and paradoxes opene…
Home-Based Workers
Microentrepreneurs and homeworkers
Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World
Women and revolution: a framework for analysis / Mary Ann Taetreault -- Women and revolution in Mozambique: a luta continua / Kathleen Sheldon -- This, t is a way of fighting: rural women's participation in Zimbabwe's liberation / Sita Ranchod-Nilsson -- Men in our country behave like chiefs: women and the Angolan revolution / Catherine V. Scott -- Women and revolution in Vietn / Mary Ann Taetreault -- Women and revolution in China: the sources o…
Homeworking Women
Homeworking and Women's Employment Trends Finding out about Homeworking Racialized Divisions in Homework The Coventry Sample Advantages and Disadvantages of Homework Information and Communication Technology Homeworking The Future for Homework
Feminism and Constructivism
The discipline of international relations (IR) is witnessing a "constructivist turn." In this article, we argue that the new preoccupation with constructivism provides a unique opportunity to further understanding between feminism and the IR mainstream. Feminism and constructivism share a commitment to an ontology of becoming that can serve as a common basis for conversation. Yet there are also profound differences between feminists and construct…
Global Social Policy Forum
Toward a Feminist Political Economics
Feminist critiques of globalization have received insufficient attention in public discourse.Spike Peterson's RVP framework integrates feminist scholarship in a way that adds punch to such critiques. Its main contribution consists in bringing into view women's labor in the 'reproductive' economy. A shortcoming is that it retains the opposition between production and reproduction. The RVP framework is built on a constructivist ontology that allows…
Making Sweatshops
Gender and War
War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa. By Joshua S. Goldstein. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 523 pages. $40.00 cloth
The Global Construction of Gender
Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping
Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping. Edited by Dyan Mazurana, Angela Raven-Roberts, and Jane Parpart. Lanham, MD, and New York: Rowman & Littlefield. 2005. 304 pp. 31.95 paper.Framed in the language of peace (making, keeping, building), the United Nations military interventions of the 1990s have spawned feminist demands for participation, together with critiques of the sexist and gendered practices that have characterized these missions. In Gender…
Doing Feminist International Relations
Asserting the diversity of feminist approaches to international relations has become a refrain within the subfield. Yet, few scholars have ventured to assess this diversity, fearing that they would marginalize some, exclude others, and establish hegemonic centers in the discursive terrain that makes up feminist international relations. The dearth of integrative scholarship has made it difficult to develop collective research agendas or define deb…
Does Gender Mainstreaming Work
The wide adoption of gender mainstreaming has rekindled debates about feminist engagements with the State. The purpose of this article is to provide a clearer specification of power politics in such engagements and develop the conceptual tools to assess the utility of feminist strategies. Drawing on feminist state theory and comparing two feminist strategies (gender mainstreaming and the equal rights strategy), this article develops an analysis o…
Feminism and the Postmodern State
This article explores the role of the multilevel and decentered European state in reproducing masculine domination through its rural development policies. I look at the implementation of gender mainstreaming in the European Union’s LEADER program in two regions in Germany. I argue that the postmodern state’s role in reproducing masculine domination depends on gender compromises that have been institutionalized previously in local contexts. Challe…
Conversations
Diversity Management and Gender Mainstreaming as Technologies of Government
Diversity management and gender mainstreaming can be considered technologies of government in the Foucaultian sense; that is, they are technologies that guide people to conduct themselves in a particular manner; their purpose is the “conduct of conduct.” This article illustrates the value of applying a Foucaultian “analytics of government” to generate insights on the effects of inserting feminist knowledge into institutional contexts through the …
Feminist International Relations
Feminist international relations is situated uneasily within a subfield of political science, on the one hand, and within an interdisciplinary literature on globalization, on the other. Emerging in the 1990s from a critique of the realist and rationalist IR canon, feminist IR research has diversified considerably, including different lines of theoretical and empirical inquiry and drawing on a range of methods. Different emphases emerge in three f…
“If Lehman Brothers Had Been Lehman Sisters...”
Prügl, Elisabeth. (2012) “If Lehman Brothers Had Been Lehman Sisters...”: Gender and Myth in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis. International Political Sociology , doi: 10.1111/j.1749-5687.2011.00149.x © 2012 International Studies Association In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008/09, there was a remarkable preoccupation in the English-language press with gender relations in finance. Articles adduced masculinity as a variable that m…
Feminist strategies in international governance
The book combines a critical reflection on the current state of feminist politics with an introduction to urgent issues on the contemporary international agenda. In addition, the book draws on innovative conceptualizations from constructivism in international relations, legal anthropology and discourse theory to provide new framings of current feminist struggles
The Whistleblower
Equality means business? Governing gender through transnational public-private partnerships
From the World Bank's ‘gender equality is smart economics’ to The Economist's ‘womenomics’ and Nike's ‘girl effect’, feminism seems to have well and truly penetrated the business world. Government action on behalf of gender equality is well institutionalized but private corporations appear as a new actor in this cause. This article asks: What do businesses and their public partners do in order to advance gender equality? What motivates their enga…
A Discussion of Laura sjoberg's Gendering Global Conflict
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Neoliberalising Feminism
There recently has been an avalanche of critiques of the way in which feminism has gone to bed with neoliberal capitalism and become an instrument of governmentality. In this paper, I look at these phenomena as processes of a 'neoliberalisation of feminism'. I illustrate such neoliberalisation by introducing women's empowerment projects run by transnational consumer products companies, typically in partnership with public development actors. Unde…
Human Beings in International Relations
Since the 1980s, the discipline of International Relations has seen a series of disputes over its foundations. However, there has been one core concept that, although addressed in various guises, had never been explicitly and systematically engaged with in these debates: the human. This volume is the first to address comprehensively the topic of the human in world politics. It comprises cutting-edge accounts by leading scholars of how the human i…
A Discussion of Sidney Tarrow’s War, States, and Contention
Contemporary political science has generated extensive literatures on the themes of war, civil war, contentious politics, and social movements. But these literatures are often segregated in particular subfields, like International Relations and Comparative Politics, and typically speak past each other rather than to each other. Sidney Tarrow’s War, States, & Contention: A Comparative Historical Study (Cornell 2015) offers a single, synthetic pers…
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