Jennifer G Mathers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1101440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer G Mathers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer G |
| FAMILY NAME | Mathers |
| SIGNATURE | MATHERS J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wales |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0130-2786 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
"Ukraine Must Be Free!"
Review of: Dispossession: Anthropological Perspectives on Russia’s War AgainstUkraine edited by Catherine Wanner. Routledge. 2024 Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voicesedited by Maryna Shevtsova. Lexington Books. 2024 Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia’s Warby Jen Stout. Polygon. 2024 Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States by MariaPopova and Oxana Shevel. Polity. 2024
Ukrainian Society Responds to a Decade of Russia's War
This special issue presents an empirically driven analysis of Russia’s war against Ukraine from the perspective of Ukrainian scholars. Curated in response to the limited presence of Ukrainian voices in international academic discourse on the conflict, this collection focuses on the social, gendered, and lived realities of war. The issue also addresses the underrepresentation of women’s voices in war and conflict studies. Ukrainian women scholars …
When civil dissent is unintelligible
This article exposes the reluctance of both pro- and antiwar Russian media to provide a nuanced understanding of the political challenge posed by the protests of wives and mothers of Russia’s soldiers involved in the war against Ukraine. Drawing on Holloway Sparks’ concept of non-radical civil dissent, we demonstrate that despite lacking overt antiwar or anti-militarist messaging and an explicit alignment with feminist antiwar resistance, these w…
Anyone can be a hero
Vladimir Putin's Russia places a great deal of emphasis on the patriotic education of its children and young people, which includes encouraging them to embrace the glorification of war and provide unconditional support for Russia's armed forces. The state's efforts to militarize Russia's youth have accelerated since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and increasingly rely on the appeal of heroism and heroes as role m…
Women, war and austerity
This paper analyses the gendered circuits of violence that create and sustain economic insecurity in Ukraine. Drawing on feminist political economy analysis of the dependence of structural adjustment programmes on women’s labor, and feminist security studies critical analysis of the negative effects of militaries on human security, the paper shows how IFI-imposed austerity measures in Ukraine are inextricable from processes of militarization. Whi…
Heroism and Global Politics
Heroism and Global Politics
Nuclear Weapons in Russian Foreign Policy
This essay is based on a close reading of speeches and other public statements made by Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev during their presidencies, covering the period 2000–2010. It argues that the pattern of presidential discourse reveals that both presidents have regarded Russia's nuclear weapons as primarily political rather than military instruments. Both Putin and Medvedev demonstrated a sustained desire to pursue strategic nuclear arms red…
The Sources of Military Change
In varying circumstances, military organizations around the world are undergoing major restructuring. This book explores why, and how, militaries change. The authors focus on a complex of three influencing factors—cultural norms, politics, and new technology—offering a historical perspective of more than a century. Their analyses range from developing states to Russia, Britain, the U.S., and NATO. Throughout, they reveal the manifold interactions…
The lessons of Chechnya
The implications of Moscow's military involvement in Chechnya for the Russian armed forces has, until very recently, been virtually ignored in Russian military literature. The experience of the war itself has rarely received a mention even in those articles which address the problems of local wars. Many of the ‘lessons’ of Chechnya which have been identified by Russian officers are really thinly‐disguised complaints about the government's failure…
A fly in outer space’
Although the Soviet missile defence effort was begun to protect the USSR from attack by nuclear missiles, Khrushchev was quick to see its political value, and used the prospect of an anti‐ballistic missile system to emphasize Soviet technological superiority. Within the Soviet armed forces there was widespread consensus about the importance of ABM's damage‐limiting role. The debates about strategy for future war in Soviet military publications de…
Déjà vu
Women, war and austerity
This paper analyses the gendered circuits of violence that create and sustain economic insecurity in Ukraine. Drawing on feminist political economy analysis of the dependence of structural adjustment programmes on women’s labor, and feminist security studies critical analysis of the negative effects of militaries on human security, the paper shows how IFI-imposed austerity measures in Ukraine are inextricable from processes of militarization. Whi…
Nuclear Weapons in Russian Foreign Policy
This essay is based on a close reading of speeches and other public statements made by Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev during their presidencies, covering the period 2000–2010. It argues that the pattern of presidential discourse reveals that both presidents have regarded Russia's nuclear weapons as primarily political rather than military instruments. Both Putin and Medvedev demonstrated a sustained desire to pursue strategic nuclear arms red…
Anyone can be a hero
Vladimir Putin's Russia places a great deal of emphasis on the patriotic education of its children and young people, which includes encouraging them to embrace the glorification of war and provide unconditional support for Russia's armed forces. The state's efforts to militarize Russia's youth have accelerated since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and increasingly rely on the appeal of heroism and heroes as role m…
The lessons of Chechnya
The implications of Moscow's military involvement in Chechnya for the Russian armed forces has, until very recently, been virtually ignored in Russian military literature. The experience of the war itself has rarely received a mention even in those articles which address the problems of local wars. Many of the ‘lessons’ of Chechnya which have been identified by Russian officers are really thinly‐disguised complaints about the government's failure…
Déjà vu
A fly in outer space’
Although the Soviet missile defence effort was begun to protect the USSR from attack by nuclear missiles, Khrushchev was quick to see its political value, and used the prospect of an anti‐ballistic missile system to emphasize Soviet technological superiority. Within the Soviet armed forces there was widespread consensus about the importance of ABM's damage‐limiting role. The debates about strategy for future war in Soviet military publications de…
The lessons of Chechnya
The implications of Moscow's military involvement in Chechnya for the Russian armed forces has, until very recently, been virtually ignored in Russian military literature. The experience of the war itself has rarely received a mention even in those articles which address the problems of local wars. Many of the ‘lessons’ of Chechnya which have been identified by Russian officers are really thinly‐disguised complaints about the government's failure…
The Sources of Military Change
In varying circumstances, military organizations around the world are undergoing major restructuring. This book explores why, and how, militaries change. The authors focus on a complex of three influencing factors—cultural norms, politics, and new technology—offering a historical perspective of more than a century. Their analyses range from developing states to Russia, Britain, the U.S., and NATO. Throughout, they reveal the manifold interactions…
Nuclear Weapons in Russian Foreign Policy
This essay is based on a close reading of speeches and other public statements made by Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev during their presidencies, covering the period 2000–2010. It argues that the pattern of presidential discourse reveals that both presidents have regarded Russia's nuclear weapons as primarily political rather than military instruments. Both Putin and Medvedev demonstrated a sustained desire to pursue strategic nuclear arms red…
Heroism and Global Politics
Heroism and Global Politics
Women, war and austerity
This paper analyses the gendered circuits of violence that create and sustain economic insecurity in Ukraine. Drawing on feminist political economy analysis of the dependence of structural adjustment programmes on women’s labor, and feminist security studies critical analysis of the negative effects of militaries on human security, the paper shows how IFI-imposed austerity measures in Ukraine are inextricable from processes of militarization. Whi…
"Ukraine Must Be Free!"
Review of: Dispossession: Anthropological Perspectives on Russia’s War AgainstUkraine edited by Catherine Wanner. Routledge. 2024 Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voicesedited by Maryna Shevtsova. Lexington Books. 2024 Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia’s Warby Jen Stout. Polygon. 2024 Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States by MariaPopova and Oxana Shevel. Polity. 2024
Ukrainian Society Responds to a Decade of Russia's War
This special issue presents an empirically driven analysis of Russia’s war against Ukraine from the perspective of Ukrainian scholars. Curated in response to the limited presence of Ukrainian voices in international academic discourse on the conflict, this collection focuses on the social, gendered, and lived realities of war. The issue also addresses the underrepresentation of women’s voices in war and conflict studies. Ukrainian women scholars …
When civil dissent is unintelligible
This article exposes the reluctance of both pro- and antiwar Russian media to provide a nuanced understanding of the political challenge posed by the protests of wives and mothers of Russia’s soldiers involved in the war against Ukraine. Drawing on Holloway Sparks’ concept of non-radical civil dissent, we demonstrate that despite lacking overt antiwar or anti-militarist messaging and an explicit alignment with feminist antiwar resistance, these w…
Anyone can be a hero
Vladimir Putin's Russia places a great deal of emphasis on the patriotic education of its children and young people, which includes encouraging them to embrace the glorification of war and provide unconditional support for Russia's armed forces. The state's efforts to militarize Russia's youth have accelerated since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and increasingly rely on the appeal of heroism and heroes as role m…
Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Spanish Civil War (5 works) · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (3 works) · History (3 works)