Dianne Otto
Biographic Data
| ID | 3606417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dianne Otto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dianne |
| FAMILY NAME | Otto |
| SIGNATURE | OTTO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3000-6502 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Queerly Troubling International Law's Vision of “Peace”
Queering international law involves dreaming. It requires stepping outside the framing presumptions of “normal” law to reveal and challenge the heteronormative underpinnings of the hierarchies of power and value that the law sustains. Reclaiming the nomenclature of queer from its history as a term of insult and dehumanization, queer theory interrogates the normative framework that naturalizes and privileges heterosexuality and its binary regime o…
Feminist Judging in Action
Rethinking 'Peace' in International Law and Politics From a Queer Feminist Perspective
What does peace mean in today's world of endless wars? Why has the project of 'universal peace', so ardently hoped for by the drafters of the UN Charter in 1945, failed so profoundly? I reflect on these questions through three stories of peace. The first is told by a series of four stained-glass windows in the Peace Palace in The Hague; the second is of the world's demilitarised zones; and the third of a peace community in Colombia. These stories…
International Law, Social Change and Resistance
Queering International Law
Feminist Approaches to International Law
This chapter describes encounters between feminism and international law in four parts. It begins by outlining the diversity of feminist visions for (and against) international law to highlight the dynamism of the field, the contestation between its various political and legal commitments, and the different ways that the feminist subject of law is conceived. Secondly, the chapter examines the range of critical analyses that feminists have develop…
Queering Gender [Identity] in International Law
In a growing number of countries, developments in domestic law concerning transgendered people are moving towards a more social approach to recognising and regulating gendered bodies. International developments – illustrated here by the Yogyakarta Principles - appear to be taking a different course in which (bio)logic and heteronormative family forms are uncritically embraced. This article provides examples from the Committee on the Elimination o…
Gender Issues and Human Rights
Power and Danger
The contention that feminists now 'walk the halls of power' in international law, in light of the UN Security Council's adoption of four thematic resolutions on Women, Peace and Security is discussed. The content of feminist ideas is reshaped to serve the institution in the processes of institutionalization for creating productive footholds for feminist ideas, which need to be critically engaged with and reappropriated for the political purposes …
Fault Lines of International Legitimacy
Fault Lines of International Legitimacy deals with the following questions: What are the features and functions of legitimacy in the international realm? How does international legitimacy, as exemplified in particular by multilateral norms, organizations, and policies, change over time? What role does the international distribution of power and its evolution have in the establishment and transformation of legitimacy paradigms? To what extent do d…
Housing, homelessness and human rights
(2004). Housing, homelessness and human rights. Australian Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 10, Symposium: Housing, Homelessness and Human Rights, pp. 1-10
Homelessness and Human Rights
This article examines the effectiveness of the 'indirect' (political rather than judicial) methods of implementation employed by Australian governments to fulfil their international human rights obligations by using the national Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) as a case study. The case study reveals that the main problems with indirect approaches to human rights implementation are the lack of independent accountability mechanism…
In search of ‘effective remedies’
(2001). In search of ‘effective remedies’: applying the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to Australia. Australian Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 5-46
From ‘Reluctance’ to ‘Exceptionalism’
Everything is Dangerous
(1999). Everything is Dangerous: Some Post-structural Tools for Rethinking the Universal Knowledge Claims of Human Rights Law. Australian Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 17-47
Subalternity and International Law
H olding U p H alf T he S ky , B ut F or W hose B enefit
(1996). Holding Up Half The Sky, But For Whose Benefit?: A Critical Analysis Of The Fourth World Conference On Women. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 7-28
Linking Health and Human Rights
ViolenceAgainstWomen-SomethingOtherThanA ViolationOfHumanRights
Power and Danger
The contention that feminists now 'walk the halls of power' in international law, in light of the UN Security Council's adoption of four thematic resolutions on Women, Peace and Security is discussed. The content of feminist ideas is reshaped to serve the institution in the processes of institutionalization for creating productive footholds for feminist ideas, which need to be critically engaged with and reappropriated for the political purposes …
Subalternity and International Law
Linking Health and Human Rights
From ‘Reluctance’ to ‘Exceptionalism’
Everything is Dangerous
(1999). Everything is Dangerous: Some Post-structural Tools for Rethinking the Universal Knowledge Claims of Human Rights Law. Australian Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 17-47
Rethinking 'Peace' in International Law and Politics From a Queer Feminist Perspective
What does peace mean in today's world of endless wars? Why has the project of 'universal peace', so ardently hoped for by the drafters of the UN Charter in 1945, failed so profoundly? I reflect on these questions through three stories of peace. The first is told by a series of four stained-glass windows in the Peace Palace in The Hague; the second is of the world's demilitarised zones; and the third of a peace community in Colombia. These stories…
Queering Gender [Identity] in International Law
In a growing number of countries, developments in domestic law concerning transgendered people are moving towards a more social approach to recognising and regulating gendered bodies. International developments – illustrated here by the Yogyakarta Principles - appear to be taking a different course in which (bio)logic and heteronormative family forms are uncritically embraced. This article provides examples from the Committee on the Elimination o…
Housing, homelessness and human rights
(2004). Housing, homelessness and human rights. Australian Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 10, Symposium: Housing, Homelessness and Human Rights, pp. 1-10
Homelessness and Human Rights
This article examines the effectiveness of the 'indirect' (political rather than judicial) methods of implementation employed by Australian governments to fulfil their international human rights obligations by using the national Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) as a case study. The case study reveals that the main problems with indirect approaches to human rights implementation are the lack of independent accountability mechanism…
In search of ‘effective remedies’
(2001). In search of ‘effective remedies’: applying the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to Australia. Australian Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 5-46
International Law, Social Change and Resistance
H olding U p H alf T he S ky , B ut F or W hose B enefit
(1996). Holding Up Half The Sky, But For Whose Benefit?: A Critical Analysis Of The Fourth World Conference On Women. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 7-28
ViolenceAgainstWomen-SomethingOtherThanA ViolationOfHumanRights
ViolenceAgainstWomen-SomethingOtherThanA ViolationOfHumanRights
Linking Health and Human Rights
Subalternity and International Law
H olding U p H alf T he S ky , B ut F or W hose B enefit
(1996). Holding Up Half The Sky, But For Whose Benefit?: A Critical Analysis Of The Fourth World Conference On Women. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 7-28
Everything is Dangerous
(1999). Everything is Dangerous: Some Post-structural Tools for Rethinking the Universal Knowledge Claims of Human Rights Law. Australian Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 17-47
In search of ‘effective remedies’
(2001). In search of ‘effective remedies’: applying the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to Australia. Australian Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 5-46
From ‘Reluctance’ to ‘Exceptionalism’
Homelessness and Human Rights
This article examines the effectiveness of the 'indirect' (political rather than judicial) methods of implementation employed by Australian governments to fulfil their international human rights obligations by using the national Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) as a case study. The case study reveals that the main problems with indirect approaches to human rights implementation are the lack of independent accountability mechanism…
Housing, homelessness and human rights
(2004). Housing, homelessness and human rights. Australian Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 10, Symposium: Housing, Homelessness and Human Rights, pp. 1-10
Fault Lines of International Legitimacy
Fault Lines of International Legitimacy deals with the following questions: What are the features and functions of legitimacy in the international realm? How does international legitimacy, as exemplified in particular by multilateral norms, organizations, and policies, change over time? What role does the international distribution of power and its evolution have in the establishment and transformation of legitimacy paradigms? To what extent do d…
Power and Danger
The contention that feminists now 'walk the halls of power' in international law, in light of the UN Security Council's adoption of four thematic resolutions on Women, Peace and Security is discussed. The content of feminist ideas is reshaped to serve the institution in the processes of institutionalization for creating productive footholds for feminist ideas, which need to be critically engaged with and reappropriated for the political purposes …
Gender Issues and Human Rights
Queering Gender [Identity] in International Law
In a growing number of countries, developments in domestic law concerning transgendered people are moving towards a more social approach to recognising and regulating gendered bodies. International developments – illustrated here by the Yogyakarta Principles - appear to be taking a different course in which (bio)logic and heteronormative family forms are uncritically embraced. This article provides examples from the Committee on the Elimination o…
Feminist Approaches to International Law
This chapter describes encounters between feminism and international law in four parts. It begins by outlining the diversity of feminist visions for (and against) international law to highlight the dynamism of the field, the contestation between its various political and legal commitments, and the different ways that the feminist subject of law is conceived. Secondly, the chapter examines the range of critical analyses that feminists have develop…
Queering International Law
International Law, Social Change and Resistance
Feminist Judging in Action
Rethinking 'Peace' in International Law and Politics From a Queer Feminist Perspective
What does peace mean in today's world of endless wars? Why has the project of 'universal peace', so ardently hoped for by the drafters of the UN Charter in 1945, failed so profoundly? I reflect on these questions through three stories of peace. The first is told by a series of four stained-glass windows in the Peace Palace in The Hague; the second is of the world's demilitarised zones; and the third of a peace community in Colombia. These stories…
Queerly Troubling International Law's Vision of “Peace”
Queering international law involves dreaming. It requires stepping outside the framing presumptions of “normal” law to reveal and challenge the heteronormative underpinnings of the hierarchies of power and value that the law sustains. Reclaiming the nomenclature of queer from its history as a term of insult and dehumanization, queer theory interrogates the normative framework that naturalizes and privileges heterosexuality and its binary regime o…
Law (18 works) · Political science (18 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Human rights (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Law and economics (8 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (6 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)