Vanessa Farr
Biographic Data
| ID | 4983657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vanessa Farr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vanessa |
| FAMILY NAME | Farr |
| SIGNATURE | FARR V |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cape Town’s community kitchens as healing commons
This paper explores how community kitchens in Cape Town, predominantly led by women from low-income areas, function as everyday infrastructures of solidarity and resistance. Drawing on participatory action research conducted between 2020 and 2024, we apply a feminist perspective on community kitchens as urban food commons. In a city marked by extreme and racialised spatial inequalities, these women-led initiatives respond to chronic food insecuri…
Ecological Reparation
How do we engage with the threat of social and environmental degradation while creating and maintaining liveable and just worlds? Researchers from diverse backgrounds unpack this question through a series of original and committed contributions to this wide-ranging volume. The authors explore practices of repairing damaged ecologies across different locations and geographies and offer innovative insights for the conservation, mending, care and em…
Selves in Question
Wide-ranging and engaging, Selves in Question considers the various ways in which auto/biographical accounts situate and question the self in contemporary southern Africa.The twenty-seven interviews presented here consider both the ontological status and the representation of the self. They remind us that the self is constantly under construction in webs of interlocution and that its status and representation are always in question. The contribut…
UNSCR 1325 and Women's Peace Activism in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Palestinian women's organized resistance to the Israeli occupation is decades old and has been well-documented and analysed by feminists in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and outside. Some of the most recent attempts to formulate and shape this resistance make reference to UNSCR 1325. The application of the Resolution in the work of three women's organizations in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Palestinian–Israeli peace-making attempt…
Notes toward a Gendered Understanding of Mixed-Population Movements and Security Sector Reform after Conflict
Scared half to death
Due to their widespread availability, mobility and ease of use, small arms are a very important factor in the flaring up and perpetration of many expressions of trauma, both in times of war and in degraded ‘peacetime’ environments characterized by large-scale violence. They have become central to maintaining social dislocation, destabilization, insecurity and crime in the build-up to war, in wartime and in the aftermath of conflict. Small arms ar…
Gender Awareness in Research and Policy Making
How Do We Know We Are at Peace? Reflections on the Aftermath Conference
To Write a Story Can Change a Life
UNSCR 1325 and Women's Peace Activism in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Palestinian women's organized resistance to the Israeli occupation is decades old and has been well-documented and analysed by feminists in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and outside. Some of the most recent attempts to formulate and shape this resistance make reference to UNSCR 1325. The application of the Resolution in the work of three women's organizations in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Palestinian–Israeli peace-making attempt…
How Do We Know We Are at Peace? Reflections on the Aftermath Conference
To Write a Story Can Change a Life
How Do We Know We Are at Peace? Reflections on the Aftermath Conference
Gender Awareness in Research and Policy Making
Scared half to death
Due to their widespread availability, mobility and ease of use, small arms are a very important factor in the flaring up and perpetration of many expressions of trauma, both in times of war and in degraded ‘peacetime’ environments characterized by large-scale violence. They have become central to maintaining social dislocation, destabilization, insecurity and crime in the build-up to war, in wartime and in the aftermath of conflict. Small arms ar…
Notes toward a Gendered Understanding of Mixed-Population Movements and Security Sector Reform after Conflict
UNSCR 1325 and Women's Peace Activism in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Palestinian women's organized resistance to the Israeli occupation is decades old and has been well-documented and analysed by feminists in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and outside. Some of the most recent attempts to formulate and shape this resistance make reference to UNSCR 1325. The application of the Resolution in the work of three women's organizations in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Palestinian–Israeli peace-making attempt…
Selves in Question
Wide-ranging and engaging, Selves in Question considers the various ways in which auto/biographical accounts situate and question the self in contemporary southern Africa.The twenty-seven interviews presented here consider both the ontological status and the representation of the self. They remind us that the self is constantly under construction in webs of interlocution and that its status and representation are always in question. The contribut…
Ecological Reparation
How do we engage with the threat of social and environmental degradation while creating and maintaining liveable and just worlds? Researchers from diverse backgrounds unpack this question through a series of original and committed contributions to this wide-ranging volume. The authors explore practices of repairing damaged ecologies across different locations and geographies and offer innovative insights for the conservation, mending, care and em…
Cape Town’s community kitchens as healing commons
This paper explores how community kitchens in Cape Town, predominantly led by women from low-income areas, function as everyday infrastructures of solidarity and resistance. Drawing on participatory action research conducted between 2020 and 2024, we apply a feminist perspective on community kitchens as urban food commons. In a city marked by extreme and racialised spatial inequalities, these women-led initiatives respond to chronic food insecuri…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Biography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)