R Charli Carpenter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1590102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Charli Carpenter |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Charli |
| FAMILY NAME | Carpenter |
| SIGNATURE | CARPENTER R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 580 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
'Innocent Women and Children'
Examining the influence of gender constructs on the international regime protecting war-affected civilians, R. Charli Carpenter examines how in practice belligerents, advocates and humanitarian players interpret civilian immunity so as to leave adult civilian men and older boys at grave risk in conflict zones. Providing a wealth of ground-breaking case studies, the author argues that in order to understand the way in which laws of war are impleme…
Lost Causes
Why do some issues and threats -- diseases, weapons, human rights abuses, vulnerable populations -- get more global policy attention than others? How do global activist networks decide the particular causes for which they advocate among the many problems in need of solutions? According to Charli Carpenter, the answer lies in the politics of global issue networks themselves. Building on surveys, focus groups, and analyses of issue network websites…
Transnational issue networks in real and virtual space
To what extent do online issue networks serve as a proxy for their real-space counterparts in structure and substance? This question is significant because a number of scholars have begun to study transnational advocacy networks through their representations online. We explored whether this assumption is valid by comparing the network composition and agenda composition of the advocacy network around 'women, peace and security', as operationalized…
Vetting the Advocacy Agenda
While a number of significant campaigns since the early 1990s have resulted in bans of particular weapons, at least as many equivalent systems have gone unscrutinized and uncondemned by transnational campaigners. How can this variation be explained? Focusing on the issue area of arms control advocacy, this article argues that an important influence on the advocacy agenda within transnational networks is the decision-making process not of norm ent…
A Fresh Crop of Human Misery
During the war in the former Yugoslavia, women of all ethnic backgrounds were raped and many gave birth to children as a result of this violence. Although numerous journalists wrote about the pregnancies and the babies during the war, almost no attention has been paid to these children as such by human rights organisations during or since. Given the purported agenda-setting role of the global media in drawing attention to new human rights problem…
Serious Games in the Global Affairs Classroom
Online simulations are becoming increasingly popular in international affairs education, and a new wave of social learning games or serious games are now being marketed to global affairs instructors. While few studies empirically evaluate the effectiveness of such games in augmenting traditional classroom methods, it is often assumed that such use of IT significantly enhances students' engagement with political and social issues. We explored this…
Setting the Advocacy Agenda
A proliferating literature in IR theory documents the impact of transnational advocacy networks on global public policy making. We know little, however, about the process by which advocacy networks select issues around which to mobilize in the first place. This paper aims to develop a framework for analyzing variation in issue emergence by comparing two prominent issues in the transnational network around children and armed conflict (child soldie…
Studying Issue (Non)-Adoption in Transnational Advocacy Networks
Why do some issues but not others galvanize transnational advocacy networks? To gain insight into this question, I studied how advocates in the human rights sector think and talk about an issue that has received little advocacy attention to date: stigma against children born of wartime rape. Focus groups with humanitarian practitioners were coded and analyzed for evidence of a variety of explanations for issue adoption drawn from the literature o…
Recognizing Gender-Based Violence Against Civilian Men and Boys in Conflict Situations
While gender-based violence has recently emerged as a salient topic in the human security community, it has been framed principally with respect to violence against women and girls, particularly sexual violence. In this article, I argue that gender-based violence against men (including sexual violence, forced conscription, and sex-selective massacre) must be recognized as such, condemned, and addressed by civilian protection agencies and proponen…
Women, Children and Other Vulnerable Groups
This article offers an explanation for the use of gender essentialisms in transnational efforts to advocate for the protection of war-affected civilians. I question why human rights advocates would rely upon such essentialisms, since they arguably undermine the moral logic of the civilian immunity norm on which their normative claims are based. This can be understood, I argue, as part of a strategic framing process in which pre-existing cultural …
Some Other Conceptual Problems
This essay responds to Winter, Thompson and Jeffreys’ critique of the UN approach to harmful traditional practices. By questioning why these authors address only a limited set of harmful practices in the West, in particular missing the problem of infant male circumcision, I argue their critique is less radical than it appears. Indeed, the article reproduces what I see as the most problematic and gendered assumptions in the UN’s approach: namely, …
Stirring Gender into the Mainstream
The point of “Gender Theory in World Politics: Contributions of a Non-Feminist Standpoint?” (Carpenter 2002) was not to delineate new parameters for gender in IR but to kindle some dialogue about the nature of those parameters, if indeed any could be said to exist. The basic premises of the argument are: mainstream IR scholars ignore gender at the risk of inadequately understanding social reality and at least some forms of gender analysis can be …
Women and Children First
Of all noncombatants in the former Yugoslavia, adult civilian men were most likely to be massacred by enemy forces. Why, therefore, did international agencies mandated with the “protection of civilians” evacuate women and children, but not military-age men, from besieged areas? This article reviews the operational dilemmas faced by protection workers in the former Yugoslavia when negotiating access to civilian populations. I argue that a social c…
Gender Theory in World Politics
Books reviewed in this article: J. Ann Tickner, Gendering World Politics Caroline O. N. Moser and Fiona C. Clark (eds.), Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence Joshua Goldstein, War and Gender: How Gender Affects the War System and Vice–Versa
Setting the Advocacy Agenda
A proliferating literature in IR theory documents the impact of transnational advocacy networks on global public policy making. We know little, however, about the process by which advocacy networks select issues around which to mobilize in the first place. This paper aims to develop a framework for analyzing variation in issue emergence by comparing two prominent issues in the transnational network around children and armed conflict (child soldie…
Women, Children and Other Vulnerable Groups
This article offers an explanation for the use of gender essentialisms in transnational efforts to advocate for the protection of war-affected civilians. I question why human rights advocates would rely upon such essentialisms, since they arguably undermine the moral logic of the civilian immunity norm on which their normative claims are based. This can be understood, I argue, as part of a strategic framing process in which pre-existing cultural …
Vetting the Advocacy Agenda
While a number of significant campaigns since the early 1990s have resulted in bans of particular weapons, at least as many equivalent systems have gone unscrutinized and uncondemned by transnational campaigners. How can this variation be explained? Focusing on the issue area of arms control advocacy, this article argues that an important influence on the advocacy agenda within transnational networks is the decision-making process not of norm ent…
Recognizing Gender-Based Violence Against Civilian Men and Boys in Conflict Situations
While gender-based violence has recently emerged as a salient topic in the human security community, it has been framed principally with respect to violence against women and girls, particularly sexual violence. In this article, I argue that gender-based violence against men (including sexual violence, forced conscription, and sex-selective massacre) must be recognized as such, condemned, and addressed by civilian protection agencies and proponen…
Studying Issue (Non)-Adoption in Transnational Advocacy Networks
Why do some issues but not others galvanize transnational advocacy networks? To gain insight into this question, I studied how advocates in the human rights sector think and talk about an issue that has received little advocacy attention to date: stigma against children born of wartime rape. Focus groups with humanitarian practitioners were coded and analyzed for evidence of a variety of explanations for issue adoption drawn from the literature o…
Women and Children First
Of all noncombatants in the former Yugoslavia, adult civilian men were most likely to be massacred by enemy forces. Why, therefore, did international agencies mandated with the “protection of civilians” evacuate women and children, but not military-age men, from besieged areas? This article reviews the operational dilemmas faced by protection workers in the former Yugoslavia when negotiating access to civilian populations. I argue that a social c…
Gender Theory in World Politics
Books reviewed in this article: J. Ann Tickner, Gendering World Politics Caroline O. N. Moser and Fiona C. Clark (eds.), Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence Joshua Goldstein, War and Gender: How Gender Affects the War System and Vice–Versa
Transnational issue networks in real and virtual space
To what extent do online issue networks serve as a proxy for their real-space counterparts in structure and substance? This question is significant because a number of scholars have begun to study transnational advocacy networks through their representations online. We explored whether this assumption is valid by comparing the network composition and agenda composition of the advocacy network around 'women, peace and security', as operationalized…
Stirring Gender into the Mainstream
The point of “Gender Theory in World Politics: Contributions of a Non-Feminist Standpoint?” (Carpenter 2002) was not to delineate new parameters for gender in IR but to kindle some dialogue about the nature of those parameters, if indeed any could be said to exist. The basic premises of the argument are: mainstream IR scholars ignore gender at the risk of inadequately understanding social reality and at least some forms of gender analysis can be …
Some Other Conceptual Problems
This essay responds to Winter, Thompson and Jeffreys’ critique of the UN approach to harmful traditional practices. By questioning why these authors address only a limited set of harmful practices in the West, in particular missing the problem of infant male circumcision, I argue their critique is less radical than it appears. Indeed, the article reproduces what I see as the most problematic and gendered assumptions in the UN’s approach: namely, …
Gender Theory in World Politics
Books reviewed in this article: J. Ann Tickner, Gendering World Politics Caroline O. N. Moser and Fiona C. Clark (eds.), Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence Joshua Goldstein, War and Gender: How Gender Affects the War System and Vice–Versa
Stirring Gender into the Mainstream
The point of “Gender Theory in World Politics: Contributions of a Non-Feminist Standpoint?” (Carpenter 2002) was not to delineate new parameters for gender in IR but to kindle some dialogue about the nature of those parameters, if indeed any could be said to exist. The basic premises of the argument are: mainstream IR scholars ignore gender at the risk of inadequately understanding social reality and at least some forms of gender analysis can be …
Women and Children First
Of all noncombatants in the former Yugoslavia, adult civilian men were most likely to be massacred by enemy forces. Why, therefore, did international agencies mandated with the “protection of civilians” evacuate women and children, but not military-age men, from besieged areas? This article reviews the operational dilemmas faced by protection workers in the former Yugoslavia when negotiating access to civilian populations. I argue that a social c…
Some Other Conceptual Problems
This essay responds to Winter, Thompson and Jeffreys’ critique of the UN approach to harmful traditional practices. By questioning why these authors address only a limited set of harmful practices in the West, in particular missing the problem of infant male circumcision, I argue their critique is less radical than it appears. Indeed, the article reproduces what I see as the most problematic and gendered assumptions in the UN’s approach: namely, …
Women, Children and Other Vulnerable Groups
This article offers an explanation for the use of gender essentialisms in transnational efforts to advocate for the protection of war-affected civilians. I question why human rights advocates would rely upon such essentialisms, since they arguably undermine the moral logic of the civilian immunity norm on which their normative claims are based. This can be understood, I argue, as part of a strategic framing process in which pre-existing cultural …
Recognizing Gender-Based Violence Against Civilian Men and Boys in Conflict Situations
While gender-based violence has recently emerged as a salient topic in the human security community, it has been framed principally with respect to violence against women and girls, particularly sexual violence. In this article, I argue that gender-based violence against men (including sexual violence, forced conscription, and sex-selective massacre) must be recognized as such, condemned, and addressed by civilian protection agencies and proponen…
Setting the Advocacy Agenda
A proliferating literature in IR theory documents the impact of transnational advocacy networks on global public policy making. We know little, however, about the process by which advocacy networks select issues around which to mobilize in the first place. This paper aims to develop a framework for analyzing variation in issue emergence by comparing two prominent issues in the transnational network around children and armed conflict (child soldie…
Studying Issue (Non)-Adoption in Transnational Advocacy Networks
Why do some issues but not others galvanize transnational advocacy networks? To gain insight into this question, I studied how advocates in the human rights sector think and talk about an issue that has received little advocacy attention to date: stigma against children born of wartime rape. Focus groups with humanitarian practitioners were coded and analyzed for evidence of a variety of explanations for issue adoption drawn from the literature o…
Serious Games in the Global Affairs Classroom
Online simulations are becoming increasingly popular in international affairs education, and a new wave of social learning games or serious games are now being marketed to global affairs instructors. While few studies empirically evaluate the effectiveness of such games in augmenting traditional classroom methods, it is often assumed that such use of IT significantly enhances students' engagement with political and social issues. We explored this…
A Fresh Crop of Human Misery
During the war in the former Yugoslavia, women of all ethnic backgrounds were raped and many gave birth to children as a result of this violence. Although numerous journalists wrote about the pregnancies and the babies during the war, almost no attention has been paid to these children as such by human rights organisations during or since. Given the purported agenda-setting role of the global media in drawing attention to new human rights problem…
Vetting the Advocacy Agenda
While a number of significant campaigns since the early 1990s have resulted in bans of particular weapons, at least as many equivalent systems have gone unscrutinized and uncondemned by transnational campaigners. How can this variation be explained? Focusing on the issue area of arms control advocacy, this article argues that an important influence on the advocacy agenda within transnational networks is the decision-making process not of norm ent…
Transnational issue networks in real and virtual space
To what extent do online issue networks serve as a proxy for their real-space counterparts in structure and substance? This question is significant because a number of scholars have begun to study transnational advocacy networks through their representations online. We explored whether this assumption is valid by comparing the network composition and agenda composition of the advocacy network around 'women, peace and security', as operationalized…
Lost Causes
Why do some issues and threats -- diseases, weapons, human rights abuses, vulnerable populations -- get more global policy attention than others? How do global activist networks decide the particular causes for which they advocate among the many problems in need of solutions? According to Charli Carpenter, the answer lies in the politics of global issue networks themselves. Building on surveys, focus groups, and analyses of issue network websites…
'Innocent Women and Children'
Examining the influence of gender constructs on the international regime protecting war-affected civilians, R. Charli Carpenter examines how in practice belligerents, advocates and humanitarian players interpret civilian immunity so as to leave adult civilian men and older boys at grave risk in conflict zones. Providing a wealth of ground-breaking case studies, the author argues that in order to understand the way in which laws of war are impleme…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Criminology (4 works)