Maree Pardy
Biographic Data
| ID | 388053 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maree Pardy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maree |
| FAMILY NAME | Pardy |
| SIGNATURE | PARDY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6401-3324 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Harms of the current global anti-FGM campaign
Traditional female genital practices, though long-standing in many cultures, have become the focus of an expansive global campaign against ‘female genital mutilation’ (FGM). In this article, we critically examine the harms produced by the anti-FGM discourse and policies, despite their grounding in human rights and health advocacy. We argue that a ubiquitous ‘standard tale’ obscures the diversity of practices, meanings and experiences among those …
From ‘aidland’ to ‘homeland: What the lived experiences of Ukrainian crisis leaders indicate about humanitarian response
Reform of the international humanitarian system has stagnated, and commitment to localise power and resources has not eventuated. This research, specifically on the Ukraine humanitarian response, draws on anthropology's exploration of aidnographies, focusing on the oft‐overlooked role of aid workers; however, it offers an explicitly place‐based, grounded approach to Ukrainian crisis leaders' and responders' lived realities, decentring internation…
The politics of listening at the World Humanitarian Summit – localisation as resistance
The sound of silence? Listening to localisation at the World Humanitarian Summit
Based on research with key stakeholders, this paper draws on theories of organisational and political listening to analyse the critical emergence of 'localisation' during the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit. The central focus is the two-year pre-summit consultation process, engaging 23,000-plus people, mainly from the Global South, and organised specifically to bring different views and experiences to the task of reforming the global humanitarian …
Response to a scandal: Sex work, race, and the development sector in Haiti
In 2018, a global media scandal erupted, in which Oxfam, one of the largest and most respected international development non-government organizations, was accused of covering up incidents of its staff engaging sex workers in Haiti following the country’s devastating 2010 earthquake. The scandal sparked widespread public condemnation of the development and humanitarian sectors for their complicity in the sexual exploitation and abuse of Haitian se…
Imagining Muslim Women in Secular Humanitarian Time
Images are important to campaigns that champion the rights of Muslim women against the gender inequalities that ostensibly inhere in Islam. The force of such images derives in part from their intended purpose to disrupt, evoke, or incite responses of compassion and solidarity. The temporal context that both produces and mandates these images, however, is also critical to their power. This article thus attempts to conceptualize and name this time,…
Perversion and Perpetration in Female Genital Mutilation Law: The Unmaking of Women as Bearers of Law
Female genital cutting (FGC) or, more controversially, female genital mutilation, has motivated the implementation of legislation in many English-speaking countries, the product of emotive images and arguments that obscure the realities of the practices of FGC and the complexity of the role of the practitioner. In Australia, state and territory legislation was followed, in 2015, with a conviction in New South Wales highlighting the problem with l…
Gender, Psychoanalytic Theories of
Psychoanalysis posits gender, sexuality, and sexual desire as effects of the prohibitions related to the incest taboo and kinship. Unlike functionalist and structural approaches that understand gender as the social and cultural elaboration of biology, psychoanalysis focuses on kinship as the site of the Oedipus complex that institutes gender through desire. Freud's insistence on the universality of this theory has drawn the ire of feminists; its …
Transnational feminisms and cosmopolitan feelings
Sexurity’ and its effects in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Newly recognised as a threat to global peace and security, sexual violence in conflict is now a fixed item on international security agendas. This marks significant progress for women, gender equality and the integrity of peace programmes. Our aim here, however, is to reflect upon the risks that inhere in this accomplishment. Through the concept of ‘sexurity’, a tripartite amalgam of the securitisation of sexual violence, the sexualisation of sec…
Honteux d'attendre: Vouloir devenir invisible (Australie)
Cet article est basé sur la réaction et les émotions d'une Vietnamo-Australienne apprenant un matin que de jeunes Vietnamiens ont mortellement agressé d'autres Vietnamiens. La manière dont la presse à sensations a rapporté l'événement la rend honteuse de son identité vietnamienne et de ce que son corps en révèle. L'auteure analyse les sentiments de honte créés par l'attente d'appartenance à une société australienne qui s'autoproclame multiculture…
Hien's shed: (Re)framing Images of Female Immigrant Home-Based Clothing Workers
Campaigns in support of home-based clothing workers (or ‘outworkers’ as they are more commonly known in Australia) deploy powerful images of the exploitative underside of fashion. The migrant woman huddled over her machine has become the quintessential image of campaigns directed against this exploitation. This article engages critically with the politics of such image-making. By examining how frames simultaneously shrink and magnify the image pr…
Under Western eyes again? Rights vernacular and the gender culture ‘clash
2013). Under Western eyes again? Rights vernacular and the gender culture 'clash'. Australian Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 19, Special Issue: Human Rights in Context: Culture, Power and Personhood, pp. 31-53
Using buzzwords of belonging: Everyday multiculturalism and social capital in Australia
This paper examines the concepts of multiculturalism and social capital, their\nrelationship with each other and how these concepts are utilised by different\ninterested parties in Australia. In the context of the United States of America and\nthe United Kingdom, some commentators and scholars have argued that\nmulticulturalism can have a negative impact on the fostering of social capital.\nThese arguments are described before examining the same …
Hate and otherness—Exploring emotion through a race riot
Hate and otherness—Exploring emotion through a race riot
The sound of silence? Listening to localisation at the World Humanitarian Summit
Based on research with key stakeholders, this paper draws on theories of organisational and political listening to analyse the critical emergence of 'localisation' during the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit. The central focus is the two-year pre-summit consultation process, engaging 23,000-plus people, mainly from the Global South, and organised specifically to bring different views and experiences to the task of reforming the global humanitarian …
Sexurity’ and its effects in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Newly recognised as a threat to global peace and security, sexual violence in conflict is now a fixed item on international security agendas. This marks significant progress for women, gender equality and the integrity of peace programmes. Our aim here, however, is to reflect upon the risks that inhere in this accomplishment. Through the concept of ‘sexurity’, a tripartite amalgam of the securitisation of sexual violence, the sexualisation of sec…
Using buzzwords of belonging: Everyday multiculturalism and social capital in Australia
This paper examines the concepts of multiculturalism and social capital, their\nrelationship with each other and how these concepts are utilised by different\ninterested parties in Australia. In the context of the United States of America and\nthe United Kingdom, some commentators and scholars have argued that\nmulticulturalism can have a negative impact on the fostering of social capital.\nThese arguments are described before examining the same …
Perversion and Perpetration in Female Genital Mutilation Law: The Unmaking of Women as Bearers of Law
Female genital cutting (FGC) or, more controversially, female genital mutilation, has motivated the implementation of legislation in many English-speaking countries, the product of emotive images and arguments that obscure the realities of the practices of FGC and the complexity of the role of the practitioner. In Australia, state and territory legislation was followed, in 2015, with a conviction in New South Wales highlighting the problem with l…
Transnational feminisms and cosmopolitan feelings
The politics of listening at the World Humanitarian Summit – localisation as resistance
Response to a scandal: Sex work, race, and the development sector in Haiti
In 2018, a global media scandal erupted, in which Oxfam, one of the largest and most respected international development non-government organizations, was accused of covering up incidents of its staff engaging sex workers in Haiti following the country’s devastating 2010 earthquake. The scandal sparked widespread public condemnation of the development and humanitarian sectors for their complicity in the sexual exploitation and abuse of Haitian se…
Hien's shed: (Re)framing Images of Female Immigrant Home-Based Clothing Workers
Campaigns in support of home-based clothing workers (or ‘outworkers’ as they are more commonly known in Australia) deploy powerful images of the exploitative underside of fashion. The migrant woman huddled over her machine has become the quintessential image of campaigns directed against this exploitation. This article engages critically with the politics of such image-making. By examining how frames simultaneously shrink and magnify the image pr…
Using buzzwords of belonging: Everyday multiculturalism and social capital in Australia
This paper examines the concepts of multiculturalism and social capital, their\nrelationship with each other and how these concepts are utilised by different\ninterested parties in Australia. In the context of the United States of America and\nthe United Kingdom, some commentators and scholars have argued that\nmulticulturalism can have a negative impact on the fostering of social capital.\nThese arguments are described before examining the same …
Hate and otherness—Exploring emotion through a race riot
Hien's shed: (Re)framing Images of Female Immigrant Home-Based Clothing Workers
Campaigns in support of home-based clothing workers (or ‘outworkers’ as they are more commonly known in Australia) deploy powerful images of the exploitative underside of fashion. The migrant woman huddled over her machine has become the quintessential image of campaigns directed against this exploitation. This article engages critically with the politics of such image-making. By examining how frames simultaneously shrink and magnify the image pr…
Under Western eyes again? Rights vernacular and the gender culture ‘clash
2013). Under Western eyes again? Rights vernacular and the gender culture 'clash'. Australian Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 19, Special Issue: Human Rights in Context: Culture, Power and Personhood, pp. 31-53
Honteux d'attendre: Vouloir devenir invisible (Australie)
Cet article est basé sur la réaction et les émotions d'une Vietnamo-Australienne apprenant un matin que de jeunes Vietnamiens ont mortellement agressé d'autres Vietnamiens. La manière dont la presse à sensations a rapporté l'événement la rend honteuse de son identité vietnamienne et de ce que son corps en révèle. L'auteure analyse les sentiments de honte créés par l'attente d'appartenance à une société australienne qui s'autoproclame multiculture…
Transnational feminisms and cosmopolitan feelings
Sexurity’ and its effects in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Newly recognised as a threat to global peace and security, sexual violence in conflict is now a fixed item on international security agendas. This marks significant progress for women, gender equality and the integrity of peace programmes. Our aim here, however, is to reflect upon the risks that inhere in this accomplishment. Through the concept of ‘sexurity’, a tripartite amalgam of the securitisation of sexual violence, the sexualisation of sec…
Gender, Psychoanalytic Theories of
Psychoanalysis posits gender, sexuality, and sexual desire as effects of the prohibitions related to the incest taboo and kinship. Unlike functionalist and structural approaches that understand gender as the social and cultural elaboration of biology, psychoanalysis focuses on kinship as the site of the Oedipus complex that institutes gender through desire. Freud's insistence on the universality of this theory has drawn the ire of feminists; its …
Perversion and Perpetration in Female Genital Mutilation Law: The Unmaking of Women as Bearers of Law
Female genital cutting (FGC) or, more controversially, female genital mutilation, has motivated the implementation of legislation in many English-speaking countries, the product of emotive images and arguments that obscure the realities of the practices of FGC and the complexity of the role of the practitioner. In Australia, state and territory legislation was followed, in 2015, with a conviction in New South Wales highlighting the problem with l…
Imagining Muslim Women in Secular Humanitarian Time
Images are important to campaigns that champion the rights of Muslim women against the gender inequalities that ostensibly inhere in Islam. The force of such images derives in part from their intended purpose to disrupt, evoke, or incite responses of compassion and solidarity. The temporal context that both produces and mandates these images, however, is also critical to their power. This article thus attempts to conceptualize and name this time,…
Response to a scandal: Sex work, race, and the development sector in Haiti
In 2018, a global media scandal erupted, in which Oxfam, one of the largest and most respected international development non-government organizations, was accused of covering up incidents of its staff engaging sex workers in Haiti following the country’s devastating 2010 earthquake. The scandal sparked widespread public condemnation of the development and humanitarian sectors for their complicity in the sexual exploitation and abuse of Haitian se…
The sound of silence? Listening to localisation at the World Humanitarian Summit
Based on research with key stakeholders, this paper draws on theories of organisational and political listening to analyse the critical emergence of 'localisation' during the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit. The central focus is the two-year pre-summit consultation process, engaging 23,000-plus people, mainly from the Global South, and organised specifically to bring different views and experiences to the task of reforming the global humanitarian …
Harms of the current global anti-FGM campaign
Traditional female genital practices, though long-standing in many cultures, have become the focus of an expansive global campaign against ‘female genital mutilation’ (FGM). In this article, we critically examine the harms produced by the anti-FGM discourse and policies, despite their grounding in human rights and health advocacy. We argue that a ubiquitous ‘standard tale’ obscures the diversity of practices, meanings and experiences among those …
From ‘aidland’ to ‘homeland: What the lived experiences of Ukrainian crisis leaders indicate about humanitarian response
Reform of the international humanitarian system has stagnated, and commitment to localise power and resources has not eventuated. This research, specifically on the Ukraine humanitarian response, draws on anthropology's exploration of aidnographies, focusing on the oft‐overlooked role of aid workers; however, it offers an explicitly place‐based, grounded approach to Ukrainian crisis leaders' and responders' lived realities, decentring internation…
The politics of listening at the World Humanitarian Summit – localisation as resistance
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Criminology (3 works)