Anne Sisson Runyan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1205233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Sisson Runyan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne Sisson |
| FAMILY NAME | Runyan |
| SIGNATURE | RUNYAN A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3255-1777 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Problematizing “Security” in Citizen Security
This article problematizes the concept of “security” within the concept of “citizen security” employed by Mexico, through a feminist security studies critique. Considering feminist security studies critiques that often see security as ultimately tied to militarization, regardless of the security referent, this article shows how this problem surfaces in Mexico's National Action Plan for Women, Peace, and Security and in the claim that Mexico has a…
Indigenous women's resistances at the start and end of the nuclear fuel chain
By focusing attention on the beginning and end of the nuclear fuel chain, which mostly takes place on Indigenous lands, this article examines the gendered effects of uranium mining and nuclear waste dumping on North American Indigenous women and their resistances to these processes. In so doing, the article reveals how mining and dumping are made possible by the denial or deflection not only of Indigenous peoples' sovereignty over their lands, bu…
Prospects for Realizing International Women’s Rights Law Through Local Governance
Conceptus interruptus
Forestalling sureties about what constitutes violence and feminism and the relationships between violence and feminism have been significant themes in the work of feminist International Relations theorist Marysia Zalewski. I follow how Zalewski, through her work and work with others including myself, interrupts well-trodden ‘trails’ of violence and feminism to open up thinking about both. I consider how her provocative work on violence and partic…
Security unbound
We open with a reflection on the sense of incredulity that marked the election of Donald Trump, encapsulated in the question - how could that have happened? How could hard-fought-for rights thought secured by (global governance) feminism be so quickly lost? What we short-hand as Trump-time, a time of the re-materialisation of an unbridled and globalised re-securing of virulent (white) patriarchy of the type many thought dead and gone, has brought…
Disposable waste, lands and bodies under Canada’s gendered nuclear colonialism
Nuclear colonialism, or the exploitation of Indigenous lands and peoples to sustain the nuclear fuel cycle from uranium mining and refining to nuclear energy and weapons production and the dumping of the resulting nuclear waste, occurs in many parts of the world and has generated considerable protest. This article focuses on a contemporary and ongoing case of nuclear colonialism in Canada: attempts to site two national deep geological repositorie…
Decolonizing knowledges in feminist world politics
“Decolonizing Knowledges in Feminist World Politics” was the theme of the fifth International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP) conference held at the University of Cincinnati in May 2016 and is
Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America
Unthinking” sexual violence in a neoliberal era of spectacular terror
The article begins with a question about the value of revitalising the equation between sexual/intimate violence and terrorism in the current neoliberal/post-feminist political and epistemological landscape. We argue that the intensifying international interest in sexual violence, and an accompanying hyper-visual imagery, is implicated in the cauterisation of critical thought about sexual violence. We offer the more mobile and expansive concept o…
Going Greenham/going Gaga on peace and security
The remarkable correspondences between the 19-year occupation of what was a US Air Forces in Europe Base by the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and Jack Halberstam’s depictions of new millennium Gaga feminism are revealed through a queer reading of Greenham women and their movement ephemera collected upon the 30th anniversary of the encampment’s beginnings. Although this destabilizes Halberstam’s claim that Gaga feminism is a new feminism, mor…
Mary Hawkesworth. Political Worlds of Women
Taking Feminist Violence Seriously in Feminist International Relations
In this article we explore questions about feminism and violence to constructively complicate understandings about this relationship. Feminism is conventionally positioned as oppositional to direct and structural violences, importantly so, as this has been seen key to feminism's viability as a constructive knowledge project. Yet there are increasingly persistent concerns about epistemic, juridical and other violences circulating around feminism, …
Prospects for Renewed Feminist Activism in the Heartland
We present findings on women's political perspectives, participation, and activism derived from a survey of women in Montgomery County, Ohio, undertaken by the Women's Research Network formed at Wright State University, which we argue have both local and national implications for feminist organizing. We connect this work and these findings to the history of feminism in Dayton as well as to other status-of-women studies at national, state, and loc…
Still Not “At Home” in IR
United States
Gendered States
Taking seriously the question "What difference does gender make?," the authors illuminate new directions in IR by highlighting the role of gender in constructing and maintaining the sovereign state system and its related notions of security, autonomy, and identity.
The Radical Future of Realism
Zillah Eisenstein, to whom we owe some credit for the title of this piece, argues in The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism that the patriarchal roots of liberalism and the state inhibit the claims and goals of liberal feminism, which depends upon these constructs even as it seeks to critique them. She goes on to make the case, however, that precisely because of this contradiction, liberal feminism has a 'potentially' subversive quality,1 or radi…
Gender relations and the politics of protection
Lucha
The Radical Future of Realism
Zillah Eisenstein, to whom we owe some credit for the title of this piece, argues in The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism that the patriarchal roots of liberalism and the state inhibit the claims and goals of liberal feminism, which depends upon these constructs even as it seeks to critique them. She goes on to make the case, however, that precisely because of this contradiction, liberal feminism has a 'potentially' subversive quality,1 or radi…
Taking Feminist Violence Seriously in Feminist International Relations
In this article we explore questions about feminism and violence to constructively complicate understandings about this relationship. Feminism is conventionally positioned as oppositional to direct and structural violences, importantly so, as this has been seen key to feminism's viability as a constructive knowledge project. Yet there are increasingly persistent concerns about epistemic, juridical and other violences circulating around feminism, …
Disposable waste, lands and bodies under Canada’s gendered nuclear colonialism
Nuclear colonialism, or the exploitation of Indigenous lands and peoples to sustain the nuclear fuel cycle from uranium mining and refining to nuclear energy and weapons production and the dumping of the resulting nuclear waste, occurs in many parts of the world and has generated considerable protest. This article focuses on a contemporary and ongoing case of nuclear colonialism in Canada: attempts to site two national deep geological repositorie…
Decolonizing knowledges in feminist world politics
“Decolonizing Knowledges in Feminist World Politics” was the theme of the fifth International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP) conference held at the University of Cincinnati in May 2016 and is
Unthinking” sexual violence in a neoliberal era of spectacular terror
The article begins with a question about the value of revitalising the equation between sexual/intimate violence and terrorism in the current neoliberal/post-feminist political and epistemological landscape. We argue that the intensifying international interest in sexual violence, and an accompanying hyper-visual imagery, is implicated in the cauterisation of critical thought about sexual violence. We offer the more mobile and expansive concept o…
Indigenous women's resistances at the start and end of the nuclear fuel chain
By focusing attention on the beginning and end of the nuclear fuel chain, which mostly takes place on Indigenous lands, this article examines the gendered effects of uranium mining and nuclear waste dumping on North American Indigenous women and their resistances to these processes. In so doing, the article reveals how mining and dumping are made possible by the denial or deflection not only of Indigenous peoples' sovereignty over their lands, bu…
Prospects for Realizing International Women’s Rights Law Through Local Governance
Gender relations and the politics of protection
Problematizing “Security” in Citizen Security
This article problematizes the concept of “security” within the concept of “citizen security” employed by Mexico, through a feminist security studies critique. Considering feminist security studies critiques that often see security as ultimately tied to militarization, regardless of the security referent, this article shows how this problem surfaces in Mexico's National Action Plan for Women, Peace, and Security and in the claim that Mexico has a…
Going Greenham/going Gaga on peace and security
The remarkable correspondences between the 19-year occupation of what was a US Air Forces in Europe Base by the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and Jack Halberstam’s depictions of new millennium Gaga feminism are revealed through a queer reading of Greenham women and their movement ephemera collected upon the 30th anniversary of the encampment’s beginnings. Although this destabilizes Halberstam’s claim that Gaga feminism is a new feminism, mor…
Still Not “At Home” in IR
Gender relations and the politics of protection
Lucha
The Radical Future of Realism
Zillah Eisenstein, to whom we owe some credit for the title of this piece, argues in The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism that the patriarchal roots of liberalism and the state inhibit the claims and goals of liberal feminism, which depends upon these constructs even as it seeks to critique them. She goes on to make the case, however, that precisely because of this contradiction, liberal feminism has a 'potentially' subversive quality,1 or radi…
Gendered States
Taking seriously the question "What difference does gender make?," the authors illuminate new directions in IR by highlighting the role of gender in constructing and maintaining the sovereign state system and its related notions of security, autonomy, and identity.
United States
Still Not “At Home” in IR
Prospects for Renewed Feminist Activism in the Heartland
We present findings on women's political perspectives, participation, and activism derived from a survey of women in Montgomery County, Ohio, undertaken by the Women's Research Network formed at Wright State University, which we argue have both local and national implications for feminist organizing. We connect this work and these findings to the history of feminism in Dayton as well as to other status-of-women studies at national, state, and loc…
Taking Feminist Violence Seriously in Feminist International Relations
In this article we explore questions about feminism and violence to constructively complicate understandings about this relationship. Feminism is conventionally positioned as oppositional to direct and structural violences, importantly so, as this has been seen key to feminism's viability as a constructive knowledge project. Yet there are increasingly persistent concerns about epistemic, juridical and other violences circulating around feminism, …
Mary Hawkesworth. Political Worlds of Women
Unthinking” sexual violence in a neoliberal era of spectacular terror
The article begins with a question about the value of revitalising the equation between sexual/intimate violence and terrorism in the current neoliberal/post-feminist political and epistemological landscape. We argue that the intensifying international interest in sexual violence, and an accompanying hyper-visual imagery, is implicated in the cauterisation of critical thought about sexual violence. We offer the more mobile and expansive concept o…
Going Greenham/going Gaga on peace and security
The remarkable correspondences between the 19-year occupation of what was a US Air Forces in Europe Base by the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and Jack Halberstam’s depictions of new millennium Gaga feminism are revealed through a queer reading of Greenham women and their movement ephemera collected upon the 30th anniversary of the encampment’s beginnings. Although this destabilizes Halberstam’s claim that Gaga feminism is a new feminism, mor…
Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America
Disposable waste, lands and bodies under Canada’s gendered nuclear colonialism
Nuclear colonialism, or the exploitation of Indigenous lands and peoples to sustain the nuclear fuel cycle from uranium mining and refining to nuclear energy and weapons production and the dumping of the resulting nuclear waste, occurs in many parts of the world and has generated considerable protest. This article focuses on a contemporary and ongoing case of nuclear colonialism in Canada: attempts to site two national deep geological repositorie…
Decolonizing knowledges in feminist world politics
“Decolonizing Knowledges in Feminist World Politics” was the theme of the fifth International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP) conference held at the University of Cincinnati in May 2016 and is
Conceptus interruptus
Forestalling sureties about what constitutes violence and feminism and the relationships between violence and feminism have been significant themes in the work of feminist International Relations theorist Marysia Zalewski. I follow how Zalewski, through her work and work with others including myself, interrupts well-trodden ‘trails’ of violence and feminism to open up thinking about both. I consider how her provocative work on violence and partic…
Security unbound
We open with a reflection on the sense of incredulity that marked the election of Donald Trump, encapsulated in the question - how could that have happened? How could hard-fought-for rights thought secured by (global governance) feminism be so quickly lost? What we short-hand as Trump-time, a time of the re-materialisation of an unbridled and globalised re-securing of virulent (white) patriarchy of the type many thought dead and gone, has brought…
Prospects for Realizing International Women’s Rights Law Through Local Governance
Indigenous women's resistances at the start and end of the nuclear fuel chain
By focusing attention on the beginning and end of the nuclear fuel chain, which mostly takes place on Indigenous lands, this article examines the gendered effects of uranium mining and nuclear waste dumping on North American Indigenous women and their resistances to these processes. In so doing, the article reveals how mining and dumping are made possible by the denial or deflection not only of Indigenous peoples' sovereignty over their lands, bu…
Problematizing “Security” in Citizen Security
This article problematizes the concept of “security” within the concept of “citizen security” employed by Mexico, through a feminist security studies critique. Considering feminist security studies critiques that often see security as ultimately tied to militarization, regardless of the security referent, this article shows how this problem surfaces in Mexico's National Action Plan for Women, Peace, and Security and in the claim that Mexico has a…
Political science (18 works) · Law (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (9 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (9 works) · Feminism (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)