Rebecca Turkington
Biographic Data
| ID | 4153375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Turkington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Turkington |
| SIGNATURE | TURKINGTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0433-8191 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Diversity in foreign policy requires new histories of international thought
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRebecca TurkingtonRebecca Turkington is a Gates Cambridge Scholar and PhD Candidate in History at the University of Cambridge. She previously worked on gender, security, and foreign policy at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace & Security and the Council on Foreign Relations. Email: [email protected]
Once and For All’
Though the slogan predates the Fourth UN World Conference on Women, ‘women's rights are human rights’ has become inextricably linked to US First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's keynote address at the 1995 Conference in Beijing. The speech turned a line socialised by transnational feminist organisers into a State Department mantra with long‐lasting policy ripples still felt today. This article uses new sources from the Office of the First Lady to ex…
Making Experts of Ourselves
For more than a century, gendered divisions between “insider” experts and “outsider” activists kept women at the margins of arms control policy, despite their long-standing disarmament advocacy. In the interwar period, when opportunities for women to influence security thinking from the inside were essentially nonexistent, lobbyist and analyst Laura Puffer Morgan educated herself in the technical knowledge of weaponry, the economics of military s…
Women, information ecology, and political protest in the Middle East
Does internet usage increase the likelihood of political protest, and is the effect larger among women than men? Using data from three waves of the Arab Barometer Survey, historical research and interviews with women activists, this paper contributes to the growing body of literature on information ecology and contentious politics in the Middle East. We hypothesized that the internet increases public protest for all individuals but differentially…
Women, information ecology, and political protest in the Middle East
Does internet usage increase the likelihood of political protest, and is the effect larger among women than men? Using data from three waves of the Arab Barometer Survey, historical research and interviews with women activists, this paper contributes to the growing body of literature on information ecology and contentious politics in the Middle East. We hypothesized that the internet increases public protest for all individuals but differentially…
Women, information ecology, and political protest in the Middle East
Does internet usage increase the likelihood of political protest, and is the effect larger among women than men? Using data from three waves of the Arab Barometer Survey, historical research and interviews with women activists, this paper contributes to the growing body of literature on information ecology and contentious politics in the Middle East. We hypothesized that the internet increases public protest for all individuals but differentially…
Diversity in foreign policy requires new histories of international thought
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRebecca TurkingtonRebecca Turkington is a Gates Cambridge Scholar and PhD Candidate in History at the University of Cambridge. She previously worked on gender, security, and foreign policy at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace & Security and the Council on Foreign Relations. Email: [email protected]
Once and For All’
Though the slogan predates the Fourth UN World Conference on Women, ‘women's rights are human rights’ has become inextricably linked to US First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's keynote address at the 1995 Conference in Beijing. The speech turned a line socialised by transnational feminist organisers into a State Department mantra with long‐lasting policy ripples still felt today. This article uses new sources from the Office of the First Lady to ex…
Making Experts of Ourselves
For more than a century, gendered divisions between “insider” experts and “outsider” activists kept women at the margins of arms control policy, despite their long-standing disarmament advocacy. In the interwar period, when opportunities for women to influence security thinking from the inside were essentially nonexistent, lobbyist and analyst Laura Puffer Morgan educated herself in the technical knowledge of weaponry, the economics of military s…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Foreign policy (2 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (2 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Appeal (1 work)