Tessa Lewin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4932380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tessa Lewin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tessa |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewin |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Cooperative Extension |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6500-8589 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Researching rollback
In this article, we reflect on the ethical and methodological complexities of researching gender-restrictive rollback and the movements resisting it, conceptualizing rollback as a contemporary, transnational modality of gendered violence. Drawing on our experience conducting a donor-commissioned rapid scoping review of feminist and queer anti-rollback resistance across 14 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the paper surfaces the epistem…
Introduction
Whilst international policy between the mid-1990s and mid-2010s gave some hope for progress on gender equality, events since then – including conflicts, climate change, the pandemic, and an increasingly insecure world – have thrown these hopes into doubt. Far from steady progress on gender equality, we now face backlash against gender and sexual rights. This article introduces our IDS Bulletin which explores understandings of backlash from a prim…
Queering Gender Backlash
This article ‘queers’ the concept of gender backlash – troubling some of its assumptions and drawing attention to the centrality of heteronormativity to an anti-gender worldview. It argues that backlash is both episodic and continuous, and that the focus on ‘gender’ in anti-gender politics tends to eclipse the affective importance of sexuality in backlash politics. It argues, also, for a less binary approach to (counter-backlash) activism – that …
Global Queer and Feminist Activism
Queer and feminist visual activism has various origins across the globe and has emerged in a fluid cultural field of visual arts, popular culture, and protest aesthetics. Given the current context of gender backlash, these forms of activism have become urgent, and so too has scholarship that engages with global queer and feminist visual activism. In this special issue, we engage with the richness of activist aesthetics at the intersections of pop…
Nothing is as it seems
In this article, in response to several calls for new theoretical andanalytical tools to help us understand the nature of contemporaryanti-feminist and anti-queer politics, I introduce the concept of‘discourse capture’. I argue that discourse capture is a key backlashmechanism, characterised by its intention, scale, and undercovernature. Discourse capture occurs where progressive discourse is co-opted and manipulated to serve right-wing agendas. …
The Aesthetics of Global Protest
Protestors across the world use aesthetics in order to communicate their ideas and ensure their voices are heard. This book looks at protest aesthetics, which we consider to be the visual and performative elements of protest, such as images, symbols, graffiti, art, as well as the choreography of protest actions in public spaces. Through the use of social media, protestors have been able to create an alternative space for people to engage with pol…
Introduction
In this article we reflect on three themes that highlight current trends in research communication for development and, in turn, shape this issue of the IDS Bulletin . We argue that shifts in the sociopolitical and theoretical context within which development research communication is being put into practice; the range and configurations of actors and roles being deployed; and technological advances or innovations available for research communica…
Real World
This article makes an argument for the added value of the use of documentary film in development research communication. It draws broadly on the specific experience of the Real World film scheme developed by the Pathways of Women's Empowerment Research Programme Consortium and Creative England, to create empowering representations of women. It argues that both researchers and film-makers have much to gain by collaborating on the political project…
Approaches to Development Research Communication
This article traces the co?evolution between models of research communication and development. It looks at how creative and visual methods fit into this trajectory. It argues that the current growth in the accessibility of communication technologies has emerged alongside a strong revival of more linear, marketing?style understanding of development research communication, which threatens to undermine their progressive potential. It argues that des…
Nothing is as it seems
In this article, in response to several calls for new theoretical andanalytical tools to help us understand the nature of contemporaryanti-feminist and anti-queer politics, I introduce the concept of‘discourse capture’. I argue that discourse capture is a key backlashmechanism, characterised by its intention, scale, and undercovernature. Discourse capture occurs where progressive discourse is co-opted and manipulated to serve right-wing agendas. …
Introduction
Whilst international policy between the mid-1990s and mid-2010s gave some hope for progress on gender equality, events since then – including conflicts, climate change, the pandemic, and an increasingly insecure world – have thrown these hopes into doubt. Far from steady progress on gender equality, we now face backlash against gender and sexual rights. This article introduces our IDS Bulletin which explores understandings of backlash from a prim…
Queering Gender Backlash
This article ‘queers’ the concept of gender backlash – troubling some of its assumptions and drawing attention to the centrality of heteronormativity to an anti-gender worldview. It argues that backlash is both episodic and continuous, and that the focus on ‘gender’ in anti-gender politics tends to eclipse the affective importance of sexuality in backlash politics. It argues, also, for a less binary approach to (counter-backlash) activism – that …
Introduction
In this article we reflect on three themes that highlight current trends in research communication for development and, in turn, shape this issue of the IDS Bulletin . We argue that shifts in the sociopolitical and theoretical context within which development research communication is being put into practice; the range and configurations of actors and roles being deployed; and technological advances or innovations available for research communica…
Approaches to Development Research Communication
This article traces the co?evolution between models of research communication and development. It looks at how creative and visual methods fit into this trajectory. It argues that the current growth in the accessibility of communication technologies has emerged alongside a strong revival of more linear, marketing?style understanding of development research communication, which threatens to undermine their progressive potential. It argues that des…
Introduction
In this article we reflect on three themes that highlight current trends in research communication for development and, in turn, shape this issue of the IDS Bulletin . We argue that shifts in the sociopolitical and theoretical context within which development research communication is being put into practice; the range and configurations of actors and roles being deployed; and technological advances or innovations available for research communica…
Real World
This article makes an argument for the added value of the use of documentary film in development research communication. It draws broadly on the specific experience of the Real World film scheme developed by the Pathways of Women's Empowerment Research Programme Consortium and Creative England, to create empowering representations of women. It argues that both researchers and film-makers have much to gain by collaborating on the political project…
Approaches to Development Research Communication
This article traces the co?evolution between models of research communication and development. It looks at how creative and visual methods fit into this trajectory. It argues that the current growth in the accessibility of communication technologies has emerged alongside a strong revival of more linear, marketing?style understanding of development research communication, which threatens to undermine their progressive potential. It argues that des…
The Aesthetics of Global Protest
Protestors across the world use aesthetics in order to communicate their ideas and ensure their voices are heard. This book looks at protest aesthetics, which we consider to be the visual and performative elements of protest, such as images, symbols, graffiti, art, as well as the choreography of protest actions in public spaces. Through the use of social media, protestors have been able to create an alternative space for people to engage with pol…
Nothing is as it seems
In this article, in response to several calls for new theoretical andanalytical tools to help us understand the nature of contemporaryanti-feminist and anti-queer politics, I introduce the concept of‘discourse capture’. I argue that discourse capture is a key backlashmechanism, characterised by its intention, scale, and undercovernature. Discourse capture occurs where progressive discourse is co-opted and manipulated to serve right-wing agendas. …
Global Queer and Feminist Activism
Queer and feminist visual activism has various origins across the globe and has emerged in a fluid cultural field of visual arts, popular culture, and protest aesthetics. Given the current context of gender backlash, these forms of activism have become urgent, and so too has scholarship that engages with global queer and feminist visual activism. In this special issue, we engage with the richness of activist aesthetics at the intersections of pop…
Introduction
Whilst international policy between the mid-1990s and mid-2010s gave some hope for progress on gender equality, events since then – including conflicts, climate change, the pandemic, and an increasingly insecure world – have thrown these hopes into doubt. Far from steady progress on gender equality, we now face backlash against gender and sexual rights. This article introduces our IDS Bulletin which explores understandings of backlash from a prim…
Queering Gender Backlash
This article ‘queers’ the concept of gender backlash – troubling some of its assumptions and drawing attention to the centrality of heteronormativity to an anti-gender worldview. It argues that backlash is both episodic and continuous, and that the focus on ‘gender’ in anti-gender politics tends to eclipse the affective importance of sexuality in backlash politics. It argues, also, for a less binary approach to (counter-backlash) activism – that …
Researching rollback
In this article, we reflect on the ethical and methodological complexities of researching gender-restrictive rollback and the movements resisting it, conceptualizing rollback as a contemporary, transnational modality of gendered violence. Drawing on our experience conducting a donor-commissioned rapid scoping review of feminist and queer anti-rollback resistance across 14 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the paper surfaces the epistem…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Livelihood (4 works) · OpenAccess (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works)