Roxani Krystalli
Biographic Data
| ID | 140597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roxani Krystalli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roxani |
| FAMILY NAME | Krystalli |
| SIGNATURE | KRYSTALLI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0067-9987 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Response to Lilie Chouliaraki’s Review of Good Victims
Good Victims
As of 2023, over nine million Colombians have secured official recognition as victims of an armed conflict that has lasted decades. The category of ‘victim’ is not a mere description of having suffered harm, but a political status and a potential site of power. This book investigates the political as a feminist question. What kind of politics is the politics of victimhood? What does it mean to understand the victim subject as a political subject,…
Pedagogy as care
In this article, we elaborate pedagogies of care, contemplating what it means to teach with and about care in the world politics classroom, situated within the neoliberal, colonial, heteropatriarchal, white western academy. Further, we actively reflect on what it means to work caringly and carefully in practice, exploring pedagogy as care. What are the dilemmas that arise for scholars and teachers, differently positioned in the academy, who seek …
Teaching and Learning Reflexivity in the World Politics Classroom
Complementing discussions of reflexivity as a research practice, this article turns its attention to the classroom. How does a pedagogy that invites students to practice reflexivity represent possibilities for thinking, writing, and imagining otherwise in scholarly engagements with world politics? In response to this question, I explore the dilemmas, challenges, and possibilities students encounter in practicing reflexivity. These include the cha…
Being Seen like a State
This article focuses on the experiences of a particular group of transitional justice professionals in Colombia: bureaucrats within Colombian state agencies who had either experienced harm in the context of the armed conflict that rendered them eligible for official recognition as victims or previously worked for activist groups and social justice nongovernmental organizations advocating on behalf of those recognized as victims. How do these bure…
Cattle to cash
Taking Love and Care Seriously
While research on armed conflict focuses primarily on violence and suffering, this article explores the practices of love and care that sit alongside these experiences of harm. Motivated by our omissions to pay sufficient attention to love and care in our research to date, we ask: How can centering practices of love and care illuminate different pathways for understanding the remaking of worlds in the wake of violence? Building on interdisciplina…
Narrating victimhood
This article was named the runner-up for the 2019 Enloe Award. The committee commented: This article addresses several provocative questions about the emphasis on “victimhood” in feminist studies of conflict and transitional justice. The author situates her own researcher positionality in the politics of knowledge production about women’s narratives of “victimhood” in Colombia’s transition from violence, reflecting on methodology and theorizing h…
Taking the Research Experience Seriously
Interdisciplinary scholarly literature considers how research processes may adversely affect their participants. Building on this work, this article addresses the processes and practices of applied research in contexts in which imbalances of power exist between researchers and those being researched. We argue that research activities in international development and humanitarian work that are typically operational, such as needs assessments, base…
The things they carry
Survivors of systematic violations of human rights abuses carry with them the evidence of their victimization: photographs of the missing, news clippings, copies of police reports. In some contexts, collecting and preserving these documents is part of an effort to claim benefits, such as official victim status or reparations, from the state. In others, it serves as a record of and rebuke to the state’s inaction. In this article, through a compara…
Social Connections and Displacement from South Sudan to Uganda
South Sudanese fled their communities in large numbers following the outbreak of political violence in 2013, with an estimated 4.5 million forcibly displaced by mid-2018. Of neighbouring countries, Uganda hosts the greatest number of South Sudanese refugees. Based on qualitative data collected in 2018 and 2019 in two refugee settlements in the West Nile sub-region of Uganda, this article examines the social connectedness of refugees during their …
Doing feminism
The article focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of academic writing. Topics mentioned include the politics of seriousness, ways on how to understand feminist work in relation to academic writing, the problems associated with participation in feminist activism, and the relation of accessibility to accountability
I followed the flood
What would a gender analysis of refugee crises reveal if one expanded the focus beyond female refugees, and acts of physical violence? This paper draws on qualitative research conducted in Denmark, Greece, Jordan, and Turkey in July and August 2016 to spotlight the gendered kinship, hierarchies, networks, and transactions that affect refugees. The coping strategies of groups often overlooked in the gender conversation are examined throughout this…
Responding to #AllMalePanels
Deconstructing the 2012 Human Security Report
At a time of increasing attention to the issue of wartime sexual violence, the 2012 Human Security Report (HSR 2012) sought to expose perceived biases in the mainstream narrative. HSR 2012 raised questions about the prevalence of wartime sexual violence, whether this form of violence was increasing or decreasing, the identity of perpetrators and victims, the state of evidence-based research and its challenges, and the policy implications of such …
Taking Love and Care Seriously
While research on armed conflict focuses primarily on violence and suffering, this article explores the practices of love and care that sit alongside these experiences of harm. Motivated by our omissions to pay sufficient attention to love and care in our research to date, we ask: How can centering practices of love and care illuminate different pathways for understanding the remaking of worlds in the wake of violence? Building on interdisciplina…
Narrating victimhood
This article was named the runner-up for the 2019 Enloe Award. The committee commented: This article addresses several provocative questions about the emphasis on “victimhood” in feminist studies of conflict and transitional justice. The author situates her own researcher positionality in the politics of knowledge production about women’s narratives of “victimhood” in Colombia’s transition from violence, reflecting on methodology and theorizing h…
I followed the flood
What would a gender analysis of refugee crises reveal if one expanded the focus beyond female refugees, and acts of physical violence? This paper draws on qualitative research conducted in Denmark, Greece, Jordan, and Turkey in July and August 2016 to spotlight the gendered kinship, hierarchies, networks, and transactions that affect refugees. The coping strategies of groups often overlooked in the gender conversation are examined throughout this…
The things they carry
Survivors of systematic violations of human rights abuses carry with them the evidence of their victimization: photographs of the missing, news clippings, copies of police reports. In some contexts, collecting and preserving these documents is part of an effort to claim benefits, such as official victim status or reparations, from the state. In others, it serves as a record of and rebuke to the state’s inaction. In this article, through a compara…
Taking the Research Experience Seriously
Interdisciplinary scholarly literature considers how research processes may adversely affect their participants. Building on this work, this article addresses the processes and practices of applied research in contexts in which imbalances of power exist between researchers and those being researched. We argue that research activities in international development and humanitarian work that are typically operational, such as needs assessments, base…
Doing feminism
The article focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of academic writing. Topics mentioned include the politics of seriousness, ways on how to understand feminist work in relation to academic writing, the problems associated with participation in feminist activism, and the relation of accessibility to accountability
Social Connections and Displacement from South Sudan to Uganda
South Sudanese fled their communities in large numbers following the outbreak of political violence in 2013, with an estimated 4.5 million forcibly displaced by mid-2018. Of neighbouring countries, Uganda hosts the greatest number of South Sudanese refugees. Based on qualitative data collected in 2018 and 2019 in two refugee settlements in the West Nile sub-region of Uganda, this article examines the social connectedness of refugees during their …
Being Seen like a State
This article focuses on the experiences of a particular group of transitional justice professionals in Colombia: bureaucrats within Colombian state agencies who had either experienced harm in the context of the armed conflict that rendered them eligible for official recognition as victims or previously worked for activist groups and social justice nongovernmental organizations advocating on behalf of those recognized as victims. How do these bure…
Pedagogy as care
In this article, we elaborate pedagogies of care, contemplating what it means to teach with and about care in the world politics classroom, situated within the neoliberal, colonial, heteropatriarchal, white western academy. Further, we actively reflect on what it means to work caringly and carefully in practice, exploring pedagogy as care. What are the dilemmas that arise for scholars and teachers, differently positioned in the academy, who seek …
Deconstructing the 2012 Human Security Report
At a time of increasing attention to the issue of wartime sexual violence, the 2012 Human Security Report (HSR 2012) sought to expose perceived biases in the mainstream narrative. HSR 2012 raised questions about the prevalence of wartime sexual violence, whether this form of violence was increasing or decreasing, the identity of perpetrators and victims, the state of evidence-based research and its challenges, and the policy implications of such …
Deconstructing the 2012 Human Security Report
At a time of increasing attention to the issue of wartime sexual violence, the 2012 Human Security Report (HSR 2012) sought to expose perceived biases in the mainstream narrative. HSR 2012 raised questions about the prevalence of wartime sexual violence, whether this form of violence was increasing or decreasing, the identity of perpetrators and victims, the state of evidence-based research and its challenges, and the policy implications of such …
Responding to #AllMalePanels
I followed the flood
What would a gender analysis of refugee crises reveal if one expanded the focus beyond female refugees, and acts of physical violence? This paper draws on qualitative research conducted in Denmark, Greece, Jordan, and Turkey in July and August 2016 to spotlight the gendered kinship, hierarchies, networks, and transactions that affect refugees. The coping strategies of groups often overlooked in the gender conversation are examined throughout this…
Doing feminism
The article focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of academic writing. Topics mentioned include the politics of seriousness, ways on how to understand feminist work in relation to academic writing, the problems associated with participation in feminist activism, and the relation of accessibility to accountability
Social Connections and Displacement from South Sudan to Uganda
South Sudanese fled their communities in large numbers following the outbreak of political violence in 2013, with an estimated 4.5 million forcibly displaced by mid-2018. Of neighbouring countries, Uganda hosts the greatest number of South Sudanese refugees. Based on qualitative data collected in 2018 and 2019 in two refugee settlements in the West Nile sub-region of Uganda, this article examines the social connectedness of refugees during their …
Narrating victimhood
This article was named the runner-up for the 2019 Enloe Award. The committee commented: This article addresses several provocative questions about the emphasis on “victimhood” in feminist studies of conflict and transitional justice. The author situates her own researcher positionality in the politics of knowledge production about women’s narratives of “victimhood” in Colombia’s transition from violence, reflecting on methodology and theorizing h…
Taking the Research Experience Seriously
Interdisciplinary scholarly literature considers how research processes may adversely affect their participants. Building on this work, this article addresses the processes and practices of applied research in contexts in which imbalances of power exist between researchers and those being researched. We argue that research activities in international development and humanitarian work that are typically operational, such as needs assessments, base…
The things they carry
Survivors of systematic violations of human rights abuses carry with them the evidence of their victimization: photographs of the missing, news clippings, copies of police reports. In some contexts, collecting and preserving these documents is part of an effort to claim benefits, such as official victim status or reparations, from the state. In others, it serves as a record of and rebuke to the state’s inaction. In this article, through a compara…
Cattle to cash
Taking Love and Care Seriously
While research on armed conflict focuses primarily on violence and suffering, this article explores the practices of love and care that sit alongside these experiences of harm. Motivated by our omissions to pay sufficient attention to love and care in our research to date, we ask: How can centering practices of love and care illuminate different pathways for understanding the remaking of worlds in the wake of violence? Building on interdisciplina…
Teaching and Learning Reflexivity in the World Politics Classroom
Complementing discussions of reflexivity as a research practice, this article turns its attention to the classroom. How does a pedagogy that invites students to practice reflexivity represent possibilities for thinking, writing, and imagining otherwise in scholarly engagements with world politics? In response to this question, I explore the dilemmas, challenges, and possibilities students encounter in practicing reflexivity. These include the cha…
Being Seen like a State
This article focuses on the experiences of a particular group of transitional justice professionals in Colombia: bureaucrats within Colombian state agencies who had either experienced harm in the context of the armed conflict that rendered them eligible for official recognition as victims or previously worked for activist groups and social justice nongovernmental organizations advocating on behalf of those recognized as victims. How do these bure…
Good Victims
As of 2023, over nine million Colombians have secured official recognition as victims of an armed conflict that has lasted decades. The category of ‘victim’ is not a mere description of having suffered harm, but a political status and a potential site of power. This book investigates the political as a feminist question. What kind of politics is the politics of victimhood? What does it mean to understand the victim subject as a political subject,…
Pedagogy as care
In this article, we elaborate pedagogies of care, contemplating what it means to teach with and about care in the world politics classroom, situated within the neoliberal, colonial, heteropatriarchal, white western academy. Further, we actively reflect on what it means to work caringly and carefully in practice, exploring pedagogy as care. What are the dilemmas that arise for scholars and teachers, differently positioned in the academy, who seek …
Response to Lilie Chouliaraki’s Review of Good Victims
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