Juanita Elias
Biographic Data
| ID | 305832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juanita Elias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juanita |
| FAMILY NAME | Elias |
| SIGNATURE | ELIAS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5184-4105 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 430 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Ripe 2025 diversity statement
Working with Depletion
Susan K Sell best reviewer award
Timothy Sinclair best article award
Ripe 2024 diversity statement
Teaching the International Political Economy (IPE) of everyday life through global groupwork
Pluralizing social reproduction approaches
The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers a rejection of productivism and the possibility of (re)telling the history of capitalism and its contemporary dynamics through the work and practices of “life making.” Yet, it is undeniable that much of the “old” and “new” theorizing around SR comes predominantly from the Global North. He…
Susan K Sell best reviewer award
Ripe 2023 diversity statement
Timothy Sinclair Best Article Award
Ripe 30th anniversary special feature: Looking back and looking forward in IPE
The field of International Political Economy (IPE) has changed considerably since the inception of the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE).This 30th anniversary editorial reflects on how these changes have impacted the journal's publications over the past ten years.Some trends are promising.RIPE has become more gender inclusive, as the share of women authors in submissions and publications has risen.RIPE has also resisted the 'quanti…
Ripe 2022 diversity statement
I-Peel: The International Political Economy of Everyday Life
I-PEEL: The International Political Economy of Everyday Life locates the study of international political economy (IPE) in the context of everyday life. It provides a fresh introduction to IPE, and highlights the relevance and prominence of IPE in the real world. In addition, the text establishes the conceptual and theoretical techniques required to engage with the IPE discipline and how those can help us understand the complexity of everyday pow…
Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, Covid-19, and Racialized Politics
This article presents an investigation into the racialized and gendered dynamics of the intensifying crisis in care for older people in the United Kingdom. Deploying a feminist political economy framework, we reveal how the care crisis is an intersectional crisis of social reproduction worsened by both austerity and COVID-19. We do this through an analysis of a small set of interviews with South Asian older women with care needs, conducted during…
Gender Politics and the Pursuit of Competitiveness in Malaysia: Women on Board
This book is concerned with how the pursuit of national economic competitiveness by states has come to be intertwined with a globalised gender agenda—one in which women and the household economy are seen as ‘untapped’ resources. In many East and Southeast Asian economies, competitiveness and the dangers of the middle-income trap dominate economic policy agendas: states’ commitments to gender equality goals are frequently framed around ‘business c…
Introduction: The production and contestation of exemplary centres in Southeast Asia
The production and contestation of exemplary centres in Southeast Asia
Urban evictions, public housing and the gendered rationalisation of kampung life in Jakarta
The dispossession of urban communities across class and racial lines is a global phenomenon linked to the expansion of international investment in the development of ‘exemplary’ city space. However, city evictions are also historically informed and gendered processes which are continuous with past colonial and postcolonial urban rationalisation projects. Drawing on testimonies of women evictees in Jakarta, as well as interviews with public housin…
International political economy and international political sociology meet in Jakarta: Feminist research agendas seen through everyday life
Feminist International Political Economy (IPE), with its focus on the gendered dimensions of social reproduction and market life, provides ground for fruitful engagements between IPE and IPS. Indeed, from this perspective, the boundaries between IPE and IPS are much more porous than assumed in some other contributions to this forum. Pushing against the boundaries of narrowly demarcated disciplinary divides is something that feminist political eco…
Who gets 'Left behind'? Promises and pitfalls in making the global development agenda work for sex workers - reflections from Southeast Asia
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) do, at least on a rhetorical level, tie countries and other development actors to a rights-based vision of development, which expressly includes labour rights, migrant rights and women’s rights. Despite this, sex workers continue to migrate and work in the margins where rights are difficult to claim. In looking for sex work in the SDGs, we ask how the SDGs respond to the rights of sex workers and whether m…
Feminist Global Political Economies of the Everyday
This collection interrogates the multifaceted ways in which global transformations are constituted by deeply gendered socio-economic practices at the level of the ‘everyday’. It brings feminist insights to bear on the emerging International Political Economy (IPE) debates about ‘the everyday’, showing how gender is key to understanding how political economy is enacted and performed at the local level, by non-elites, and via various cultural pract…
The gender dimensions of New Labour’s international development policy
Handbook on the International Political Economy of Gender
Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence
It goes without saying that feminist International Political Economy (IPE) is concerned in one way or another with the everyday - conceptualised as both a site of political struggle and a site within which social relations are (re)produced and governed. Given the longstanding grounding of feminist research in everyday gendered experiences, many would ask: Why do we need an explicit feminist theorisation of the everyday? After all, notions of ever…
Governing Domestic Worker Migration in Southeast Asia: Public-Private Partnerships, Regulatory Grey Zones and the Household
Focussing on the example of domestic worker migration, this article seeks to explore the regulatory regimes that control the flow of migrants across Southeast Asia. Although at first glance, this appears to be a deeply statist regime, the aim of this article is to complicate this picture and to look at the role that private power and authority places in shaping migration governance. The article focusses on three interrelated issues: (i) how state…
Continuing the Conversation … Some Reflections
The diverse collection of short reflections included in this Critical Perspectives section looks to continue a conversation—a conversation that played out in the pages of this journal (Elias 2015) regarding the relationship between two strands of feminist international relations scholarship: feminist security studies (FSS) and feminist international political economy (IPE). In this forum, the contributors return to some of the same ground, but in…
Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence
It goes without saying that feminist International Political Economy (IPE) is concerned in one way or another with the everyday - conceptualised as both a site of political struggle and a site within which social relations are (re)produced and governed. Given the longstanding grounding of feminist research in everyday gendered experiences, many would ask: Why do we need an explicit feminist theorisation of the everyday? After all, notions of ever…
The Everyday Gendered Political Economy of Violence
This short commentary aims to think through the need to return to a more “integrated” feminist IR through a focus on some of the ways in which feminist political economy (FPE) scholars, such as ourselves, might better integrate a focus on gendered forms and practices of violence into our analysis. We do this via an intervention into debates about the nature of the “everyday” political economy. At the same time, we hope that this intervention migh…
Hegemonic Masculinity and Globalization: ‘Transnational Business Masculinities’ and Beyond
In recent years masculinity studies writers, in particular R. W. Connell, have focused on the relationship between globalization and ‘hegemonic’ forms of masculinity. This paper provides an assessment of this scholarship and argues that whilst Connell and others have usefully identified the gendered nature of globalization, masculinity scholars have also provided a somewhat limiting account of the global hegemonic role of a monolithic top-down ‘t…
Introduction: Feminist Security Studies and Feminist Political Economy: Crossing Divides and Rebuilding Bridges
The essays here reflect on the need to rebuild bridges between two key strands of feminist International Relations (IR) scholarship: feminist security studies (FSS) and feminist (international) political economy (FPE/FIPE). As many of the contributions to this section point out, feminist IR scholarship has long emphasized how gender relations and identities are constituted globally in relation to processes of militarization, securitization, globa…
Feminist Global Political Economies of the Everyday: From Bananas to Bingo
Feminist studies of political economy have long pointed to the multifaceted ways in which global transformations are constituted by deeply gendered economic practices at the everyday level. Nonetheless, the increased analytical focus on the everyday within the study of international political economy (IPE) frequently fails to connect with feminist theories and gendered approaches. In this introductory essay, we argue that any discussion of a ‘tur…
Davos Woman to the Rescue of Global Capitalism: Postfeminist Politics and Competitiveness Promotion at the World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a global governance actor that has in recent years taken an increased interest in issues pertaining to gender equality and women's empowerment. The paper critically investigates the work of the WEF in this area, suggesting that WEF-produced gender and development discourse is profoundly compatible with the politics and practices of neoliberalism—not least in the way in which it aligns gender equality and women's …
Struggles over the rights of foreign domestic workers in Malaysia: The Possibilities and Limitations of 'Rights Talk
This article considers the possibilities and limitations that the employment of human rights discourse poses for organizations in Malaysia involved in migrant domestic worker issues. Because domestic employment is such an overwhelmingly feminized occupation, one logical avenue of enquiry is to analyse these organizations' adoption of 'rights talk' from a critical feminist perspective. The case-study research presented in this article suggests tha…
Pluralizing social reproduction approaches
The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers a rejection of productivism and the possibility of (re)telling the history of capitalism and its contemporary dynamics through the work and practices of “life making.” Yet, it is undeniable that much of the “old” and “new” theorizing around SR comes predominantly from the Global North. He…
Governing Domestic Worker Migration in Southeast Asia: Public-Private Partnerships, Regulatory Grey Zones and the Household
Focussing on the example of domestic worker migration, this article seeks to explore the regulatory regimes that control the flow of migrants across Southeast Asia. Although at first glance, this appears to be a deeply statist regime, the aim of this article is to complicate this picture and to look at the role that private power and authority places in shaping migration governance. The article focusses on three interrelated issues: (i) how state…
Foreign Policy and the Domestic Worker: The Malaysia–indonesia Domestic Worker Dispute
In 2009, following numerous high profile abuse cases, the Indonesian government placed a moratorium on its citizens taking up employment in Malaysia as domestic workers. From the perspective of feminist International Relations, the emergence of migrant domestic work as a foreign policy concern between these two states is significant - exposing a relationship between foreign policy and the webs of transnationalized social relations of reproduction…
Making migrant domestic work visible: The rights based approach to migration and the ‘challenges of social reproduction’ 1
In recent years, the production of a gendered and racialised underclass of non-citizen domestic workers has come to play an increasingly important role in meeting the socially reproductive needs of middle class Malaysian households. This article considers the extent to which rights based approaches to migrant worker rights endorsed by both International Organisations and regional and local (Malaysian) nongovernmental organisations are sufficient …
Hegemonic Masculinities, the Multinational Corporation, and the Developmental State: Constructing Gender in “Progressive” Firms
This article analyzes how the mainstream study of multinational corporations (MNCs) reflects a set of gendered assumptions that construct the firm as a hegemonically masculine political actor. It is suggested that the same masculinist assumptions that are found in these writings on MNCs take shape within firms in the form of a masculinist managerialism that constructs women workers in terms of their 'productive femininity.' There is an extensive …
The gender politics of economic competitiveness in Malaysia's transition to a knowledge economy
Many academic commentators have pointed to how the widening and deepening of a neoliberal reform agenda in Southeast Asia has brought about the end of developmental forms of state governance and the emergence of less directly market interventionist states pursuing economic ‘competitiveness’. In this paper, I note how notions of competitiveness are increasingly fused with ideas regarding the contribution of gender equity and women's empowerment to…
The gendered political economy of control and resistance on the shop floor of the multinational firm: A case-study from Malaysia
The female factory worker features widely in feminist or 'gendered' approaches in international political economy (IPE). Such studies draw attention to the way in which the spread of labour intensive, export-oriented manufacturing has depended on the construction of gendered production processes that are based on the exploitation and control of low waged female labour. In this article I draw upon case-study research conducted in Malaysia in order…
Producing Migrant Domestic Work: Exploring the Everyday Political Economy of Malaysia's ‘Maid Shortage’
The article considers how the employment of domestic workers by middle-class Malaysian households has been thrown into flux by the imposition of bans on the sending of workers by states such as Indonesia and Cambodia, as well as the decline in numbers of women seeking employment as domestic workers in Malaysia and rising employment costs. This article does not seek to focus on the high-level policy negotiations and disputes that have come to char…
Locating the “Everyday” in International Political Economy: That Roar Which Lies on the Other Side of Silence
Journal Article Locating the “Everyday” in International Political Economy: That Roar Which Lies on the Other Side of Silence Get access Everyday Politics of the World Economy. By Hobson John M. Seabrooke Leonard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 254 pp., $36.99 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0-521-70163-1).Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States. By Muñoz Carolina Bank. Ithaca, NY: Corn…
Urban evictions, public housing and the gendered rationalisation of kampung life in Jakarta
The dispossession of urban communities across class and racial lines is a global phenomenon linked to the expansion of international investment in the development of ‘exemplary’ city space. However, city evictions are also historically informed and gendered processes which are continuous with past colonial and postcolonial urban rationalisation projects. Drawing on testimonies of women evictees in Jakarta, as well as interviews with public housin…
Gendered political economy and the politics of migrant worker rights: The view from South-East Asia
Focusing on the South-East Asian region and looking specifically at activism around the position of migrant domestic workers in the region, this article seeks to evaluate why migrant activist organisations appear to have had, at best, modest influence on gendering the International Labour Organization's approach to labour rights. The author argues that this is largely due to how dominant understandings of labour rights have neglected the signific…
Transnational Migration, Gender, and Rights: Advocacy and Activism in the Malaysian Context
This paper explores the intersection between gender and migration through an analysis of the advocacy strategies undertaken by Malaysian non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) and trade unions on behalf of female transnational migrant workers. In particular, the paper looks at the different ways in which local NGOs and trade unions have engaged with the so‐called “rights‐based approach” to migration that has been emphasized by transnational NGOs a…
Women workers and labour standards: The problem of ‘human rights’
The International Labour Organisation’s Declaration of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work of 1998 formalised an approach to global labour issues known as the Core Labour Standards (CLS). The CLS have privileged a specific set of labour standards as possessing the kinds of universalistic qualities associated with ideas of ‘human rights’; the abolition of forced and child labour, equality of opportunity, and trade union rights. But what does…
Handbook on the International Political Economy of Gender
Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, Covid-19, and Racialized Politics
This article presents an investigation into the racialized and gendered dynamics of the intensifying crisis in care for older people in the United Kingdom. Deploying a feminist political economy framework, we reveal how the care crisis is an intersectional crisis of social reproduction worsened by both austerity and COVID-19. We do this through an analysis of a small set of interviews with South Asian older women with care needs, conducted during…
Undoing ruination in Jakarta: The gendered remaking of life on a wasted landscape
This intervention shares images and stories from the women evictees in Jakarta who collectively give voice to the psychic, physical, and material injuries inflicted by state dispossession in the city. Engaging Ann Laura Stoler's (2013) language to expose the politics of ruination and preservation, we illustrate the gendered nature of the remaking of life on the most wasted of urban landscapes. The focus of this piece is Kampung Akuarium, a neighb…
Malaysia in the World Economy (1824–2011): Capitalism, Ethnic Divisions and “Managed” Democracy
AZLAN TAJUDDIN. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012. xvii, 272 pp. US$75.00, hardcover. This book provides a fascinating account of how Malaysia’s current political economic situation is best understood
From multilateralism to microcosms in the world economy: The sociological turn in Australian international political economy scholarship
Bisa Gender and International Relations Working Group Workshop: Methodologies in Feminist Research
Stitching-up the labour market: Recruitment, gender and ethnicity in the multinational firm
In mainstream International Political Economy (IPE) writings on globalization, the multinational corporation (MNC) is placed at the centre of the emergence of a global market economy. Allied to this view is the normative position that these firms will have a positive, developmental impact on the states that they invest in. This article presents a gendered political economy perspective on the process of foreign direct investment (FDI), arguing tha…
The gendered political economy of control and resistance on the shop floor of the multinational firm: A case-study from Malaysia
The female factory worker features widely in feminist or 'gendered' approaches in international political economy (IPE). Such studies draw attention to the way in which the spread of labour intensive, export-oriented manufacturing has depended on the construction of gendered production processes that are based on the exploitation and control of low waged female labour. In this article I draw upon case-study research conducted in Malaysia in order…
Women Workers in Industrialising Asia: Costed Not Valued – Edited by Amarjit Kaur
International Relations: The Basics
International Relations is a concise and accessible introduction for students new to international relations and for the general reader. It offers the most up-to-date guide to the major issues and areas of debate and: explains key issues including humanitarian intervention and economic justice features illustrative and familiar case studies from around the world examines topical debates on globalization and terrorism provides an overview of the d…
Women workers and labour standards: The problem of ‘human rights’
The International Labour Organisation’s Declaration of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work of 1998 formalised an approach to global labour issues known as the Core Labour Standards (CLS). The CLS have privileged a specific set of labour standards as possessing the kinds of universalistic qualities associated with ideas of ‘human rights’; the abolition of forced and child labour, equality of opportunity, and trade union rights. But what does…
Hegemonic Masculinities, the Multinational Corporation, and the Developmental State: Constructing Gender in “Progressive” Firms
This article analyzes how the mainstream study of multinational corporations (MNCs) reflects a set of gendered assumptions that construct the firm as a hegemonically masculine political actor. It is suggested that the same masculinist assumptions that are found in these writings on MNCs take shape within firms in the form of a masculinist managerialism that constructs women workers in terms of their 'productive femininity.' There is an extensive …
Struggles over the rights of foreign domestic workers in Malaysia: The Possibilities and Limitations of 'Rights Talk
This article considers the possibilities and limitations that the employment of human rights discourse poses for organizations in Malaysia involved in migrant domestic worker issues. Because domestic employment is such an overwhelmingly feminized occupation, one logical avenue of enquiry is to analyse these organizations' adoption of 'rights talk' from a critical feminist perspective. The case-study research presented in this article suggests tha…
Hegemonic Masculinity and Globalization: ‘Transnational Business Masculinities’ and Beyond
In recent years masculinity studies writers, in particular R. W. Connell, have focused on the relationship between globalization and ‘hegemonic’ forms of masculinity. This paper provides an assessment of this scholarship and argues that whilst Connell and others have usefully identified the gendered nature of globalization, masculinity scholars have also provided a somewhat limiting account of the global hegemonic role of a monolithic top-down ‘t…
Gendering Liberalisation and Labour Reform in Malaysia: Fostering ‘competitiveness’ in the productive and reproductive economies
This paper seeks to examine how and why gender needs to be brought into the analysis of state developmentalism in Asia. In doing so, the paper focuses on ongoing processes of labour market and industrial relations reform that have accompanied Malaysia's economic development since the early 1970s. Understanding these reforms from a gender perspective means that we must recognise both the significant contribution that women make to the growth of ex…
From multilateralism to microcosms in the world economy: The sociological turn in Australian international political economy scholarship
Gendered political economy and the politics of migrant worker rights: The view from South-East Asia
Focusing on the South-East Asian region and looking specifically at activism around the position of migrant domestic workers in the region, this article seeks to evaluate why migrant activist organisations appear to have had, at best, modest influence on gendering the International Labour Organization's approach to labour rights. The author argues that this is largely due to how dominant understandings of labour rights have neglected the signific…
Making migrant domestic work visible: The rights based approach to migration and the ‘challenges of social reproduction’ 1
In recent years, the production of a gendered and racialised underclass of non-citizen domestic workers has come to play an increasingly important role in meeting the socially reproductive needs of middle class Malaysian households. This article considers the extent to which rights based approaches to migrant worker rights endorsed by both International Organisations and regional and local (Malaysian) nongovernmental organisations are sufficient …
Transnational Migration, Gender, and Rights: Advocacy and Activism in the Malaysian Context
This paper explores the intersection between gender and migration through an analysis of the advocacy strategies undertaken by Malaysian non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) and trade unions on behalf of female transnational migrant workers. In particular, the paper looks at the different ways in which local NGOs and trade unions have engaged with the so‐called “rights‐based approach” to migration that has been emphasized by transnational NGOs a…
Locating the “Everyday” in International Political Economy: That Roar Which Lies on the Other Side of Silence
Journal Article Locating the “Everyday” in International Political Economy: That Roar Which Lies on the Other Side of Silence Get access Everyday Politics of the World Economy. By Hobson John M. Seabrooke Leonard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 254 pp., $36.99 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0-521-70163-1).Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States. By Muñoz Carolina Bank. Ithaca, NY: Corn…
On Re-engaging Asia
This collection of papers focuses on the domestic and international politics of Australia’s recent engagement with Asia. The theme of Asian engagement appears to be of particular pertinence to the current study of Australian politics given numerous pronouncements that we are entering an ‘Asian century’ during which key Asian economies will gain greater ascendancy and certain Asian states will come to play a more prominent role in global politics.…
The gender politics of economic competitiveness in Malaysia's transition to a knowledge economy
Many academic commentators have pointed to how the widening and deepening of a neoliberal reform agenda in Southeast Asia has brought about the end of developmental forms of state governance and the emergence of less directly market interventionist states pursuing economic ‘competitiveness’. In this paper, I note how notions of competitiveness are increasingly fused with ideas regarding the contribution of gender equity and women's empowerment to…
Foreign Policy and the Domestic Worker: The Malaysia–indonesia Domestic Worker Dispute
In 2009, following numerous high profile abuse cases, the Indonesian government placed a moratorium on its citizens taking up employment in Malaysia as domestic workers. From the perspective of feminist International Relations, the emergence of migrant domestic work as a foreign policy concern between these two states is significant - exposing a relationship between foreign policy and the webs of transnationalized social relations of reproduction…
Malaysia in the World Economy (1824–2011): Capitalism, Ethnic Divisions and “Managed” Democracy
AZLAN TAJUDDIN. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012. xvii, 272 pp. US$75.00, hardcover. This book provides a fascinating account of how Malaysia’s current political economic situation is best understood
Davos Woman to the Rescue of Global Capitalism: Postfeminist Politics and Competitiveness Promotion at the World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a global governance actor that has in recent years taken an increased interest in issues pertaining to gender equality and women's empowerment. The paper critically investigates the work of the WEF in this area, suggesting that WEF-produced gender and development discourse is profoundly compatible with the politics and practices of neoliberalism—not least in the way in which it aligns gender equality and women's …
Civil Society and the Gender Politics of Economic Competitiveness in Malaysia
Malaysian government planning and policy-making have increasingly come to recognise the role of women and the household in the promotion of a number of strategies aimed at enhancing economic competitiveness. Government planning documents emphasise the need to boost women's labour market participation, increase women's levels of entrepreneurship, and the need to strengthen and support the family unit—developments that can be understood in terms of…
Realising Women’s Human Rights in Malaysia: The Empower Report
Why do activist groups representing some of society’s most marginalised employ legalistic forms of “rights talk” when the reality of securing rights via the judicial system is almost unimaginable? The article considers this question in relation to the work of the Malaysian non-governmental organisation (NGO) EMPOWER which, in 2012, produced the Malaysian women’s human rights report focusing attention on the rights of informal sector workers, refu…
Introduction: Feminist Security Studies and Feminist Political Economy: Crossing Divides and Rebuilding Bridges
The essays here reflect on the need to rebuild bridges between two key strands of feminist International Relations (IR) scholarship: feminist security studies (FSS) and feminist (international) political economy (FPE/FIPE). As many of the contributions to this section point out, feminist IR scholarship has long emphasized how gender relations and identities are constituted globally in relation to processes of militarization, securitization, globa…
The Everyday Gendered Political Economy of Violence
This short commentary aims to think through the need to return to a more “integrated” feminist IR through a focus on some of the ways in which feminist political economy (FPE) scholars, such as ourselves, might better integrate a focus on gendered forms and practices of violence into our analysis. We do this via an intervention into debates about the nature of the “everyday” political economy. At the same time, we hope that this intervention migh…
The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia: The Dominance of Moral Ideologies
The Politics of Accountability in South East Asia focuses its attention on the emergence of a new accountability agenda in Southeast Asia – that is, the rise of bodies, commissions, procedures and
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