Safia Swimelar
Biographic Data
| ID | 6088966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Safia Swimelar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Safia |
| FAMILY NAME | Swimelar |
| SIGNATURE | SWIMELAR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Elon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8064-509X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
International and Global Studies Capstone Course Innovations: Multimedia Identity Video Collage and Study Abroad Integration
This article contributes to the scholarship of teaching and learning in international studies by modeling how a capstone course and multimedia project can support students’ integration of study abroad experiences and learning into their academic work and personal development. The multimedia video collage capstone project empowered students to (re)examine their study abroad site and narrate an identity and globalization theme using local material …
LGBT Rights in Bosnia: The Challenge of Nationalism in the Context of Europeanization
Nationalism has been one of the domestic constraints to progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, especially in the Balkans that are dealing with multiple postwar transition realities. Ethno-nationalist challenges, often influenced by religion, have been significant in Bosnia-Herzegovina given weak state identity and democracy, competing institutionalized ethno-national identities, and slow Europeanization. Through the le…
Change Through Visibility: The Transnational and Domestic Politics of LGBT Rights in Europe
Over the last decade and particularly the last several years, the global visibility of LGBT1 rights has significantly grown, in terms of LGBT communities themselves; LGBT rights as an issue of public contestation between states, international organizations, and nonstate actors; and as a field of scholarly inquiry. Phillip Ayoub's book When States Come Out: Europe's Sexual Minorities and the Politics of Visibility presents one of the most substant…
Nationalism and Europeanization in LGBT Rights and Politics: A Comparative Study of Croatia and Serbia
LGBT rights have come to be seen as allied with the idea of “Europe” and a European identity, particularly in the process of European Union enlargement to the East. Scholars have examined the ways in which external norms interact with more local, often “traditional” norms and identities. In this process, nationalism and conceptions of national identity and gender/sexuality norms can be seen as important factors that influence the domestic adoptio…
Deploying images of enemy bodies: US image warfare and strategic narratives
This article investigates the practice of post 9/11 US image warfare through an analysis of three sets of enemy capture and killing: Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam Hussein, and Osama bin Laden. Specifically, the article examines these images in terms of their potential to support, complicate, and/or undermine the strategic narratives of the Bush and Obama administrations as they relate to the Iraq War and the killing of Osama bin Laden, respectiv…
Education in Post-war Bosnia: The Nexus of Societal Security, Identity and Nationalism
The notion of security in international relations has been broadened and reconceptualized and now rightly includes an understanding of education as a potential security threat, not just a socializing tool. In post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina, the education system is decentralized, politicized and nationalistic, and promotes competing visions and identities of Bosnia. Some students attend segregated schools, while almost all study only with others from…
Visualizing International Relations: Assessing Student Learning Through Film
Journal Article Visualizing International Relations: Assessing Student Learning Through Film Get access Safia Swimelar Safia Swimelar Elon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 14, Issue 1, February 2013, Pages 14–38, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-3585.2012.00467.x Published: 04 February 2013
The Making of Minority Rights Norms in the Context of EU Enlargement: The Czech Republic and the Roma
The end of the Cold War, the twin processes of democratisation and European Union enlargement in the Central and East European states, and the desire to prevent inter-ethnic tensions in the region have created new incentives and resources for the promotion and protection of minority rights. Engaging the constructivist approach within international relations theory, this article seeks to understand the domestic impact of international minority rig…
Approaches to ethnic conflict and the protection of human rights in post‐communist Europe: The need for preventive diplomacy
Ethnic conflict in post‐communist states is often caused by human rights abuses stemming from the lack of democratic institutions and other politico‐legal mechanisms for resolving inter‐ethnic disputes. This article compares the legal approach to the management of ethnic conflict and the protection of human rights in post‐communist states with the political approach of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), with specific …
Visualizing International Relations: Assessing Student Learning Through Film
Journal Article Visualizing International Relations: Assessing Student Learning Through Film Get access Safia Swimelar Safia Swimelar Elon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 14, Issue 1, February 2013, Pages 14–38, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-3585.2012.00467.x Published: 04 February 2013
Nationalism and Europeanization in LGBT Rights and Politics: A Comparative Study of Croatia and Serbia
LGBT rights have come to be seen as allied with the idea of “Europe” and a European identity, particularly in the process of European Union enlargement to the East. Scholars have examined the ways in which external norms interact with more local, often “traditional” norms and identities. In this process, nationalism and conceptions of national identity and gender/sexuality norms can be seen as important factors that influence the domestic adoptio…
Education in Post-war Bosnia: The Nexus of Societal Security, Identity and Nationalism
The notion of security in international relations has been broadened and reconceptualized and now rightly includes an understanding of education as a potential security threat, not just a socializing tool. In post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina, the education system is decentralized, politicized and nationalistic, and promotes competing visions and identities of Bosnia. Some students attend segregated schools, while almost all study only with others from…
LGBT Rights in Bosnia: The Challenge of Nationalism in the Context of Europeanization
Nationalism has been one of the domestic constraints to progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, especially in the Balkans that are dealing with multiple postwar transition realities. Ethno-nationalist challenges, often influenced by religion, have been significant in Bosnia-Herzegovina given weak state identity and democracy, competing institutionalized ethno-national identities, and slow Europeanization. Through the le…
Deploying images of enemy bodies: US image warfare and strategic narratives
This article investigates the practice of post 9/11 US image warfare through an analysis of three sets of enemy capture and killing: Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam Hussein, and Osama bin Laden. Specifically, the article examines these images in terms of their potential to support, complicate, and/or undermine the strategic narratives of the Bush and Obama administrations as they relate to the Iraq War and the killing of Osama bin Laden, respectiv…
International and Global Studies Capstone Course Innovations: Multimedia Identity Video Collage and Study Abroad Integration
This article contributes to the scholarship of teaching and learning in international studies by modeling how a capstone course and multimedia project can support students’ integration of study abroad experiences and learning into their academic work and personal development. The multimedia video collage capstone project empowered students to (re)examine their study abroad site and narrate an identity and globalization theme using local material …
Approaches to ethnic conflict and the protection of human rights in post‐communist Europe: The need for preventive diplomacy
Ethnic conflict in post‐communist states is often caused by human rights abuses stemming from the lack of democratic institutions and other politico‐legal mechanisms for resolving inter‐ethnic disputes. This article compares the legal approach to the management of ethnic conflict and the protection of human rights in post‐communist states with the political approach of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), with specific …
The Making of Minority Rights Norms in the Context of EU Enlargement: The Czech Republic and the Roma
The end of the Cold War, the twin processes of democratisation and European Union enlargement in the Central and East European states, and the desire to prevent inter-ethnic tensions in the region have created new incentives and resources for the promotion and protection of minority rights. Engaging the constructivist approach within international relations theory, this article seeks to understand the domestic impact of international minority rig…
Approaches to ethnic conflict and the protection of human rights in post‐communist Europe: The need for preventive diplomacy
Ethnic conflict in post‐communist states is often caused by human rights abuses stemming from the lack of democratic institutions and other politico‐legal mechanisms for resolving inter‐ethnic disputes. This article compares the legal approach to the management of ethnic conflict and the protection of human rights in post‐communist states with the political approach of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), with specific …
The Making of Minority Rights Norms in the Context of EU Enlargement: The Czech Republic and the Roma
The end of the Cold War, the twin processes of democratisation and European Union enlargement in the Central and East European states, and the desire to prevent inter-ethnic tensions in the region have created new incentives and resources for the promotion and protection of minority rights. Engaging the constructivist approach within international relations theory, this article seeks to understand the domestic impact of international minority rig…
Education in Post-war Bosnia: The Nexus of Societal Security, Identity and Nationalism
The notion of security in international relations has been broadened and reconceptualized and now rightly includes an understanding of education as a potential security threat, not just a socializing tool. In post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina, the education system is decentralized, politicized and nationalistic, and promotes competing visions and identities of Bosnia. Some students attend segregated schools, while almost all study only with others from…
Visualizing International Relations: Assessing Student Learning Through Film
Journal Article Visualizing International Relations: Assessing Student Learning Through Film Get access Safia Swimelar Safia Swimelar Elon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Perspectives, Volume 14, Issue 1, February 2013, Pages 14–38, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-3585.2012.00467.x Published: 04 February 2013
Deploying images of enemy bodies: US image warfare and strategic narratives
This article investigates the practice of post 9/11 US image warfare through an analysis of three sets of enemy capture and killing: Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam Hussein, and Osama bin Laden. Specifically, the article examines these images in terms of their potential to support, complicate, and/or undermine the strategic narratives of the Bush and Obama administrations as they relate to the Iraq War and the killing of Osama bin Laden, respectiv…
Change Through Visibility: The Transnational and Domestic Politics of LGBT Rights in Europe
Over the last decade and particularly the last several years, the global visibility of LGBT1 rights has significantly grown, in terms of LGBT communities themselves; LGBT rights as an issue of public contestation between states, international organizations, and nonstate actors; and as a field of scholarly inquiry. Phillip Ayoub's book When States Come Out: Europe's Sexual Minorities and the Politics of Visibility presents one of the most substant…
Nationalism and Europeanization in LGBT Rights and Politics: A Comparative Study of Croatia and Serbia
LGBT rights have come to be seen as allied with the idea of “Europe” and a European identity, particularly in the process of European Union enlargement to the East. Scholars have examined the ways in which external norms interact with more local, often “traditional” norms and identities. In this process, nationalism and conceptions of national identity and gender/sexuality norms can be seen as important factors that influence the domestic adoptio…
International and Global Studies Capstone Course Innovations: Multimedia Identity Video Collage and Study Abroad Integration
This article contributes to the scholarship of teaching and learning in international studies by modeling how a capstone course and multimedia project can support students’ integration of study abroad experiences and learning into their academic work and personal development. The multimedia video collage capstone project empowered students to (re)examine their study abroad site and narrate an identity and globalization theme using local material …
LGBT Rights in Bosnia: The Challenge of Nationalism in the Context of Europeanization
Nationalism has been one of the domestic constraints to progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, especially in the Balkans that are dealing with multiple postwar transition realities. Ethno-nationalist challenges, often influenced by religion, have been significant in Bosnia-Herzegovina given weak state identity and democracy, competing institutionalized ethno-national identities, and slow Europeanization. Through the le…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Human rights (5 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Identity (music (3 works) · Minority rights (3 works)