Emma Dolan
Biographic Data
| ID | 110487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Dolan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Dolan |
| SIGNATURE | DOLAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Limerick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0178-0312 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Universal design for learning as emancipatory education: Politics, disagreement, discomfort
This article reviews Universal Design for Learning, an increasingly normatively important approach to inclusive teaching in higher education, alongside feminist, emancipatory theories of political education. Given that both UDL and emancipatory pedagogies imply that education should unsettle established (ableist, gendered, raced, and classed) hierarchies of power and value, working towards more equitable educational spaces, it seems that UDL shou…
Safety and the city: (Re)Imagining the politics of public safety through queer-feminist co-design workshops
Gender-based disparities in feelings of public safety are now well documented in rich, interdisciplinary bodies of Feminist scholarship. However, understandings of safety which go beyond the gendered binary of fear/fearlessness have been limited, and many solutions have tended to emphasise women's and minorities' responsibility for their own safety and/or urban changes devoid of structural critique. This paper suggests that theoretical and method…
Arms, aviation, and apologies: Mapping the Boeing social media response to the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash
Boeing is famous for aviation but also produces arms, making $29.2 billion from the latter in 2018. The role of the arms trade in facilitating death can be considered a ‘public secret’ - known, but socially unacknowledged. This allows Boeing to represent its role as one of ‘neutral’ technological advancement, obscuring violence engendered by certain products. How can we know the public secret? We argue that public apology and scandal are boundary…
To those who choose to follow in our footsteps”: Making women/LGBT+ soldiers (in)visible through feminist “her-story” theater
Building on Judith Butler’s understanding of visibility as “the object of continuous regulation and contestation,” art/aesthetics studies in international relations, and feminist theater studies, we identify feminist “her-story” theater as a unique site where Western “gender-/sexuality-inclusive” soldiering is visibilized, contested, and subverted. Drawing on ethnographic observations of two award-winning dramas, interviews with artists and milit…
Emotional and Gendered Sense-Making through Apologies for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
This article examines the specific, gendered discourses, which can be uncovered within political apologies for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) and sexualized torture. While apologies are often perceived as either cynical, normatively “empty” gestures that seek to carry out strategic interests or as attempts by political actors to (albeit, often inadequately) emphasize their commitment to addressing past violence and associated cultures of…
The gendered politics of recognition and recognizability through political apology
This article focuses on the performative recognition offered to victims through political apologies for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). I introduce feminist understandings of visibility as ambivalent alongside a differential politics of “grievability” in order to suggest that political apologies must always recognize and make visible particular accounts of violence and subject positions; however, they simultaneously obscure others. I pro…
The politics and pedagogy of war remembrance
Drawing on analysis of learning materials, interviews and ethnographic observations of Scottish education, we analyse how projects aimed at teaching children to remember wars instil war-normalising logics through (a) substitution of self-reflective study of conflict with skill-based knowledge; (b) gendered and racial stereotyping via emphasis on soldier-centric (Scottish/British) nationalisms, localisation and depoliticisation of remembrance; (c)…
Sexual violence, political apology and competing victimhoods
This article utilizes feminist literature on victimhood and rape mythology to suggest a new theoretical lens by which to view victims of sexual violence and the politics of state recognition through apology. The campaigns of two South Korean victim groups, the comfort women and camptown women, are examined to demonstrate that the process in which they must battle to obtain state redress through apology implies the existence of a discursive, gende…
Scottish soldier-heroes and patriotic war heroines: The gendered politics of World War I commemoration
This paper explores the (re)production of embodied gendered and racialised identities as part of commemorations devised by the Scottish government to mark the Centenary of WWI, 2014–18. In particular, we demonstrate how the Centenary has re-established Scotland’s key contribution to British military power instead of providing a platform for a broader discussion of British wars and Scotland’s role therein. Our analysis posits that this reframing w…
Scottish soldier-heroes and patriotic war heroines: The gendered politics of World War I commemoration
This paper explores the (re)production of embodied gendered and racialised identities as part of commemorations devised by the Scottish government to mark the Centenary of WWI, 2014–18. In particular, we demonstrate how the Centenary has re-established Scotland’s key contribution to British military power instead of providing a platform for a broader discussion of British wars and Scotland’s role therein. Our analysis posits that this reframing w…
To those who choose to follow in our footsteps”: Making women/LGBT+ soldiers (in)visible through feminist “her-story” theater
Building on Judith Butler’s understanding of visibility as “the object of continuous regulation and contestation,” art/aesthetics studies in international relations, and feminist theater studies, we identify feminist “her-story” theater as a unique site where Western “gender-/sexuality-inclusive” soldiering is visibilized, contested, and subverted. Drawing on ethnographic observations of two award-winning dramas, interviews with artists and milit…
Emotional and Gendered Sense-Making through Apologies for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
This article examines the specific, gendered discourses, which can be uncovered within political apologies for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) and sexualized torture. While apologies are often perceived as either cynical, normatively “empty” gestures that seek to carry out strategic interests or as attempts by political actors to (albeit, often inadequately) emphasize their commitment to addressing past violence and associated cultures of…
The gendered politics of recognition and recognizability through political apology
This article focuses on the performative recognition offered to victims through political apologies for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). I introduce feminist understandings of visibility as ambivalent alongside a differential politics of “grievability” in order to suggest that political apologies must always recognize and make visible particular accounts of violence and subject positions; however, they simultaneously obscure others. I pro…
The politics and pedagogy of war remembrance
Drawing on analysis of learning materials, interviews and ethnographic observations of Scottish education, we analyse how projects aimed at teaching children to remember wars instil war-normalising logics through (a) substitution of self-reflective study of conflict with skill-based knowledge; (b) gendered and racial stereotyping via emphasis on soldier-centric (Scottish/British) nationalisms, localisation and depoliticisation of remembrance; (c)…
Sexual violence, political apology and competing victimhoods
This article utilizes feminist literature on victimhood and rape mythology to suggest a new theoretical lens by which to view victims of sexual violence and the politics of state recognition through apology. The campaigns of two South Korean victim groups, the comfort women and camptown women, are examined to demonstrate that the process in which they must battle to obtain state redress through apology implies the existence of a discursive, gende…
Sexual violence, political apology and competing victimhoods
This article utilizes feminist literature on victimhood and rape mythology to suggest a new theoretical lens by which to view victims of sexual violence and the politics of state recognition through apology. The campaigns of two South Korean victim groups, the comfort women and camptown women, are examined to demonstrate that the process in which they must battle to obtain state redress through apology implies the existence of a discursive, gende…
Scottish soldier-heroes and patriotic war heroines: The gendered politics of World War I commemoration
This paper explores the (re)production of embodied gendered and racialised identities as part of commemorations devised by the Scottish government to mark the Centenary of WWI, 2014–18. In particular, we demonstrate how the Centenary has re-established Scotland’s key contribution to British military power instead of providing a platform for a broader discussion of British wars and Scotland’s role therein. Our analysis posits that this reframing w…
The politics and pedagogy of war remembrance
Drawing on analysis of learning materials, interviews and ethnographic observations of Scottish education, we analyse how projects aimed at teaching children to remember wars instil war-normalising logics through (a) substitution of self-reflective study of conflict with skill-based knowledge; (b) gendered and racial stereotyping via emphasis on soldier-centric (Scottish/British) nationalisms, localisation and depoliticisation of remembrance; (c)…
The gendered politics of recognition and recognizability through political apology
This article focuses on the performative recognition offered to victims through political apologies for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). I introduce feminist understandings of visibility as ambivalent alongside a differential politics of “grievability” in order to suggest that political apologies must always recognize and make visible particular accounts of violence and subject positions; however, they simultaneously obscure others. I pro…
To those who choose to follow in our footsteps”: Making women/LGBT+ soldiers (in)visible through feminist “her-story” theater
Building on Judith Butler’s understanding of visibility as “the object of continuous regulation and contestation,” art/aesthetics studies in international relations, and feminist theater studies, we identify feminist “her-story” theater as a unique site where Western “gender-/sexuality-inclusive” soldiering is visibilized, contested, and subverted. Drawing on ethnographic observations of two award-winning dramas, interviews with artists and milit…
Emotional and Gendered Sense-Making through Apologies for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
This article examines the specific, gendered discourses, which can be uncovered within political apologies for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) and sexualized torture. While apologies are often perceived as either cynical, normatively “empty” gestures that seek to carry out strategic interests or as attempts by political actors to (albeit, often inadequately) emphasize their commitment to addressing past violence and associated cultures of…
Arms, aviation, and apologies: Mapping the Boeing social media response to the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash
Boeing is famous for aviation but also produces arms, making $29.2 billion from the latter in 2018. The role of the arms trade in facilitating death can be considered a ‘public secret’ - known, but socially unacknowledged. This allows Boeing to represent its role as one of ‘neutral’ technological advancement, obscuring violence engendered by certain products. How can we know the public secret? We argue that public apology and scandal are boundary…
Universal design for learning as emancipatory education: Politics, disagreement, discomfort
This article reviews Universal Design for Learning, an increasingly normatively important approach to inclusive teaching in higher education, alongside feminist, emancipatory theories of political education. Given that both UDL and emancipatory pedagogies imply that education should unsettle established (ableist, gendered, raced, and classed) hierarchies of power and value, working towards more equitable educational spaces, it seems that UDL shou…
Safety and the city: (Re)Imagining the politics of public safety through queer-feminist co-design workshops
Gender-based disparities in feelings of public safety are now well documented in rich, interdisciplinary bodies of Feminist scholarship. However, understandings of safety which go beyond the gendered binary of fear/fearlessness have been limited, and many solutions have tended to emphasise women's and minorities' responsibility for their own safety and/or urban changes devoid of structural critique. This paper suggests that theoretical and method…
Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)