Nicole George
Biographic Data
| ID | 628390 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole George |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | George |
| SIGNATURE | GEORGE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1556-973X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Experiences of Peer Bullying Victimization and Early Delinquent Behavior Among Children Living in Disadvantaged Single-Mother Homes
The association between frequent bullying victimization and delinquency during preadolescence, a critical period for future violence prevention, is understudied for children facing cumulative risks. Single-parent household structure and poverty are established contributors to delinquency. Guided by General Strain Theory and using secondary data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this study examined whether child-reported peer …
“They Think That They Know Your Story”
Immigrant women of African descent (IWAD) navigate oppression rooted in anti-Black racism, sexism, and nativism. While discrimination in health care is documented, the interpersonal barriers IWAD encounter within social and human service agencies remain underexplored. Consequently, this qualitative study aimed to explore these barriers through an intersectional lens, specifically examining how identity-based discrimination impacts interactions wi…
Between Rights and Rightfulness
Experiences of gender violence cause harm and hurt to too many women across the Pacific Islands. For more than three decades, gender activists have drawn attention to this issue and successfully argued for improved state responses to arrest this violence. The reforms have been institutionalised, but ongoing violence shows they frequently fail. Through a study undertaken in three Pacific Island case study settings—Fiji, Bougainville, and Kanak com…
Rethinking French‐as‐a‐second‐language education as a space for supporting Indigenous language work on xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) land
In Canada, growing awareness of multilingualism in language teacher education requires educators to rethink how we practice language education. Many are increasingly questioning how established English–French official language programming can be reconciled with the reviving and reclaiming of Indigenous languages, and how we might think across Indigenous and Western worldviews in ethical, relational, and responsible ways. One such example is the r…
Ecosystem of support
Strategic efforts are needed to understand how to integrate the health and community sectors, with a distinct need for health systems to listen to diverse voices from the community
Imagining security from gender violence in the Pacific Islands
This article develops a vernacular security lens to examine the relationship between gender violence and security in three Pacific Island settings: Fiji, Bougainville, and Kanak communities in New Caledonia. This approach is deployed to analyse findings from a novel photo elicitation field study researching women’s everyday perspectives on the relationship between gendered familial violence and insecurity and how this insecurity can be managed. V…
Our Cry as Women Leaders
This discussion examines how and why the peacebuilding environment in Solomon Islands presents profound constraints for women despite the promises of global, regional, and national policy stipulating the importance of this activity. The analysis draws on theories of scale to explain how gendered geometries of power are configured in the Solomon Islands peacebuilding environment. These power geometries are shaped by interplaying local and global f…
Gendered Health Outcome Among Somali Refugee Youth in Displacement
Unraveling Trouble Socializing
Altering experienced utility by incidental affect
The way we evaluate an experience can be influenced by contextual factors that are unrelated to the experience at hand. A prominent factor that has been shown to infuse into the evaluation processes is incidental affect. Prior research has examined the role of such incidental affect by either focusing on its valence or its arousal, while neglecting the interplay of these two components in the affect infusion process. Based on the affect-integrati…
Implementation Evaluation of Community-Based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Intervention for Refugee Newcomers in the United States
Refugee newcomers resettled in the United States face numerous challenges impacting their mental health and overall well-being. Despite extensive research on clinical interventions, multimodal interventions with peer-based group models in resettlement contexts remain scarce. Adopting a realist evaluation approach, this study aims to conduct a comprehensive implementation evaluation of a complex community-based mental health and psychosocial suppo…
Impacts of Covid-19 on Refugee Service Provision and Community Support
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has significant impacts on refugee populations and created social, economic as well as public health crises that led to multipronged challenges and barriers to resettlement services and community support. This study aims to explore the impacts of the pandemic on refugee service provision from the standpoint of refugee-serving professionals, refugee community leaders, and volunteers. Using rapid evaluation and a…
Born in displacement
Urban refugees often face tremendous adversities during displacement that exacerbate mental health and psychosocial outcomes. Given the lack of research on how extended displacement affects mental health in urban refugee youth, this study examines the differential effects of country of birth on trauma exposure and psychosocial factors that influence mental health experiences among Somali refugee youth in urban Kenya (n = 303). Findings reveals th…
Making Space for Indigenous Approaches in the Southwest Pacific? The Spatial Politics of Peace Scholarship and Practice
Indigenous approaches to space and place in the Southwest Pacific are crucial to governing peace. However, 'making space' for these approaches can only be progressed if scholars and practitioners recognize their emplacement within hegemonic systems of knowledge and the contested entanglement of Indigenous and introduced systems in peacebuilding practice. Addressing this challenge requires respectful and careful engagement with diverse peoples and…
The Nye Canyon Paleo Site
The place of the Clovis techno-complex in Great Basin culture history remains enigmatic, both in relation to the Western Stemmed Tradition – the dominant Paleoindian artifact complex in the Intermountain West – and to the range of late Pleistocene/early Holocene habitats that people employing Clovis toolkits utilized. Here we describe the Nye Canyon Paleo Site (26Ly930), located in the Pine Grove Hills in western Nevada. The Nye Canyon Paleo Site…
It hurts so much to live for nothing”
Do animal Cruelty Exposure and Positive Engagement with Pets Moderate Associations Between Children’s Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Externalizing Behavior Problems
Mind-Wandering Changes in Dysphoria
Changes in mind-wandering (MW) and involuntary autobiographical memory (IAM) in dysphoria have been explored with conflicting results. The aim of this study was to evaluate both MW and IAM in a group of 23 stable dysphoric participants compared to 37 controls and to compare their thoughts characteristics (i.e., specificity, visual perspective, time orientation, and emotional valence). To make this study comparable with previous research, we used …
Our struggle, our cry, our sweat”
While women’s contributions to peacebuilding and conflict mediation are currently viewed as central to the durability of peace, women peace leaders still face constraints in their work toward a peace that is gender-just. In this article, we reflect on the gendered rules that structure the conflict transition environment in Solomon Islands, a context that is shaped by interactions between internationally driven liberal peacebuilding and local infl…
Conflict transition, emplaced identity and the gendered politics of scale in Solomon Islands
Although there is growing recognition that women’s participation is critical for the durability of peaceful conflict transition, grounded research examining the political scale of women’s participation has not been common. Where feminist researchers have tackled this topic, they have generally reproduced binary representations of political space, sometimes strongly critical of local spaces as restrictive of women, sometimes strongly critical of a…
Emplacing the spatial turn in peace and conflict studies
This introduction provides an overview for the following collection of articles that engage with, and aim to extend, recent scholarship emphasising space as a category of analysis in peace and conflict studies. Attempts to ‘spatialise’ this field of enquiry have emphasised the ways actors and ideas travel and transform across scale (from the personal to the local, regional and global) and how agents, actors and identities constitute, and are cons…
The impact of eye contact on the sense of agency
Gender, security and Australia’s 2018 Pacific Pivot
The question of how to more effectively engage with the Pacific Islands region became one of the ‘hot’ topics in foreign affairs and security policy circles in Australia in 2018. In response to Chi
A neuroscientific approach to increase gender equality
Con la grande diffusione negli ultimi tempi degli Smartphone alcune grandi aziende hanno sentito la necessita di creare sistemi operativi adatti a questi dispositivi embedded.Tra i piu noti sistemi operativi abbiamo Android, iOS, Maemo e Windowsphone. In questo elaborato si presentera inizialmente il sistema Android, sviluppato sotto il controllo di Google, che ha la caratteristica di avere un kernel derivato da Linux e di ereditare da esso la li…
The Difference that Gender Makes to International Peace and Security
Emplacing the spatial turn in peace and conflict studies
This introduction provides an overview for the following collection of articles that engage with, and aim to extend, recent scholarship emphasising space as a category of analysis in peace and conflict studies. Attempts to ‘spatialise’ this field of enquiry have emphasised the ways actors and ideas travel and transform across scale (from the personal to the local, regional and global) and how agents, actors and identities constitute, and are cons…
Women, Peace and Security
This special issue brings together articles that examine how the localisation and implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda occurs in policy and practice. In this introduction, we examine the increasing importance of the Women, Peace and Security policy framework in global politics and the inevitable tensions that surround calls for greater local-level institutional implementation. Drawing on findings from the United Nations 2015 Glo…
Experimental construction of hunter-gatherer residential features, mobility, and the costs of occupying “persistent places”
Policing “conjugal order”
This article develops a feminist critique of debate on hybrid forms of governance in global politics by demonstrating the gendered implications (and limitations) of hybridized approaches to security provision. The conceptual approach that frames my enquiry puts arguments advancing the benefits of multilayered and hybridized security into dialogue with ethnographic enquiry on “vernacular” security and feminist study of “conjugal order.” I contend …
Promoting Women, Peace and Security in the Pacific Islands
How has the Women, Peace and Security agenda been advanced in the Pacific Islands? While some observers argue that this region suffers from a contagion of unrest, violence and state weakness, these estimates commonly ignore the vital work women have performed in the region as promoters of peace and security. Even when such activity places them in direct personal danger, women across the region have spearheaded efforts to bridge communal boundarie…
Conflict transition, emplaced identity and the gendered politics of scale in Solomon Islands
Although there is growing recognition that women’s participation is critical for the durability of peaceful conflict transition, grounded research examining the political scale of women’s participation has not been common. Where feminist researchers have tackled this topic, they have generally reproduced binary representations of political space, sometimes strongly critical of local spaces as restrictive of women, sometimes strongly critical of a…
Light, heat and shadows
In this paper, I examine women’s reflections on their experiences as peacebuilders during Bougainville’s long years of conflict and the later period of conflict transition. I discuss the varying ways in which women, in this predominantly matrilineal society, recounted their contributions to conflict resolution as part of broader efforts to build peace. My interlocutors told stories of the distinctiveness of women’s peace leadership, interwoven wi…
Institutionalising Women, Peace and Security in the Pacific Islands
Efforts to adopt provisions of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda in local policy contexts are often hailed enthusiastically by gender advocates as a transformative development. But closer scrutiny of these localisation efforts may reveal something different. This article draws on theories of feminist institutionalism to examine the formal and informal institutional interplays which have shaped the Regional Action Plan on Women, …
Our struggle, our cry, our sweat”
While women’s contributions to peacebuilding and conflict mediation are currently viewed as central to the durability of peace, women peace leaders still face constraints in their work toward a peace that is gender-just. In this article, we reflect on the gendered rules that structure the conflict transition environment in Solomon Islands, a context that is shaped by interactions between internationally driven liberal peacebuilding and local infl…
Liberal-local peacebuilding in Solomon Islands and Bougainville
The 'local turn' in peacebuilding has been inspired by the idea that post-conflict order is made more just, representative and legitimate when there is greater recognition and incorporation of local sites of authority. However, the gendered visions of security that may be projected from these spheres have often escaped critical attention. This oversight continues despite growing feminist interest in understanding both the contributions that women…
Just like your Mother?' the Politics of Feminism and Maternity in the Pacific Islands
The varied extents to which maternal images are invoked by women activists in the Pacific Islands and the way in which theses varied articulations of motherhood are shaped by broader, contextual political considerations are discussed. Motherhood plays a very vital role in Pacific cultures and has been found to be very meaningful
Community resilience and crisis management
Community resilience is a central concept within crisis management policymaking, but it has escaped critical analysis. This article responds to this problem by examining a community-led response to a large natural disaster (the Queensland floods of 2010–11). The findings emerge from the application of a novel ethnographic method, uniquely informed by an insider’s view of the disaster, which generated narratives from ‘the ground’. These narratives…
Imagining security from gender violence in the Pacific Islands
This article develops a vernacular security lens to examine the relationship between gender violence and security in three Pacific Island settings: Fiji, Bougainville, and Kanak communities in New Caledonia. This approach is deployed to analyse findings from a novel photo elicitation field study researching women’s everyday perspectives on the relationship between gendered familial violence and insecurity and how this insecurity can be managed. V…
Making Space for Indigenous Approaches in the Southwest Pacific? The Spatial Politics of Peace Scholarship and Practice
Indigenous approaches to space and place in the Southwest Pacific are crucial to governing peace. However, 'making space' for these approaches can only be progressed if scholars and practitioners recognize their emplacement within hegemonic systems of knowledge and the contested entanglement of Indigenous and introduced systems in peacebuilding practice. Addressing this challenge requires respectful and careful engagement with diverse peoples and…
The Nye Canyon Paleo Site
The place of the Clovis techno-complex in Great Basin culture history remains enigmatic, both in relation to the Western Stemmed Tradition – the dominant Paleoindian artifact complex in the Intermountain West – and to the range of late Pleistocene/early Holocene habitats that people employing Clovis toolkits utilized. Here we describe the Nye Canyon Paleo Site (26Ly930), located in the Pine Grove Hills in western Nevada. The Nye Canyon Paleo Site…
Gender, security and Australia’s 2018 Pacific Pivot
The question of how to more effectively engage with the Pacific Islands region became one of the ‘hot’ topics in foreign affairs and security policy circles in Australia in 2018. In response to Chi
The difference that gender makes to international peace and security
Over the last twenty years understanding the effects of gender inequality on inter-national peace and security has led to much study and data collection. This feminist-informed scholarship has deepened collective understanding of the preconditions for lasting peace and security. However, the impact of efforts to reduce gender inequality on sustaining peace and security has received less feminist scholarly attention. The argu-ment that gender equa…
The virtues of strangers? Policing gender violence in Pacific Island countries
This article considers the gap between reformist policy and practice in the policing of gender violence in Pacific Island Countries (PICs) with a key focus on Solomon Islands, Fiji and Kiribati. In doing so, we critically engage with two pervasive arguments in policing scholarship: (1) arguments regarding the value of hybridity and regulatory pluralism in PICs; and (2) the dominant critique of ‘policing by strangers’. We outline and acknowledge t…
Sexual violence and hybrid peacebuilding
This paper reflects on the gendered impacts of hybrid peacebuilding processes in Timor-Leste and Bougainville. We consider the interplaying local and global influences that shape how women's stories of conflict-related sexual violence are received, and consider the silences that often shroud these experiences. In contradiction to the global push to expose sexual violence as part of peacebuilding efforts, we offer a more ethnographically focused e…
Situating' active citizenship
This article examines a 40-year history of women's organising in Fiji, in order to show how the political goals pursued by active citizens can be shaped by an interplay of domestic and international political contingencies. This approach challenges the common and somewhat idealised definitions of active citizenship that focus upon actors' capacity to mobilise collectively behind political goals independent of those that motivate the state or the …
Just like your Mother?' the Politics of Feminism and Maternity in the Pacific Islands
The varied extents to which maternal images are invoked by women activists in the Pacific Islands and the way in which theses varied articulations of motherhood are shaped by broader, contextual political considerations are discussed. Motherhood plays a very vital role in Pacific cultures and has been found to be very meaningful
Promoting Women, Peace and Security in the Pacific Islands
How has the Women, Peace and Security agenda been advanced in the Pacific Islands? While some observers argue that this region suffers from a contagion of unrest, violence and state weakness, these estimates commonly ignore the vital work women have performed in the region as promoters of peace and security. Even when such activity places them in direct personal danger, women across the region have spearheaded efforts to bridge communal boundarie…
‘Starting with a Prayer’
Scholars of global security have recently been captured by the idea that there is a link between ‘sex and world peace’. They argue that the security of states and the international system should be understood as conditional upon the social, economic, and political standing of women. Accordingly, they contend that societies and states that display chauvinistic and discriminatory sociocultural influences are more tolerant of high levels of gender d…
Watching Eyes effects
The perception of direct gaze-that is, of another individual's gaze directed at the observer-is known to influence a wide range of cognitive processes and behaviors. We present a new theoretical proposal to provide a unified account of these effects. We argue that direct gaze first captures the beholder's attention and then triggers self-referential processing, i.e., a heightened processing of stimuli in relation with the self. Self-referential p…
Different patterns of recollection impairment in confabulation reveal different disorders of consciousness
Light, heat and shadows
In this paper, I examine women’s reflections on their experiences as peacebuilders during Bougainville’s long years of conflict and the later period of conflict transition. I discuss the varying ways in which women, in this predominantly matrilineal society, recounted their contributions to conflict resolution as part of broader efforts to build peace. My interlocutors told stories of the distinctiveness of women’s peace leadership, interwoven wi…
Community resilience and crisis management
Community resilience is a central concept within crisis management policymaking, but it has escaped critical analysis. This article responds to this problem by examining a community-led response to a large natural disaster (the Queensland floods of 2010–11). The findings emerge from the application of a novel ethnographic method, uniquely informed by an insider’s view of the disaster, which generated narratives from ‘the ground’. These narratives…
Women, Peace and Security
This special issue brings together articles that examine how the localisation and implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda occurs in policy and practice. In this introduction, we examine the increasing importance of the Women, Peace and Security policy framework in global politics and the inevitable tensions that surround calls for greater local-level institutional implementation. Drawing on findings from the United Nations 2015 Glo…
Institutionalising Women, Peace and Security in the Pacific Islands
Efforts to adopt provisions of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda in local policy contexts are often hailed enthusiastically by gender advocates as a transformative development. But closer scrutiny of these localisation efforts may reveal something different. This article draws on theories of feminist institutionalism to examine the formal and informal institutional interplays which have shaped the Regional Action Plan on Women, …
The difference that gender makes to international peace and security
Over the last twenty years understanding the effects of gender inequality on inter-national peace and security has led to much study and data collection. This feminist-informed scholarship has deepened collective understanding of the preconditions for lasting peace and security. However, the impact of efforts to reduce gender inequality on sustaining peace and security has received less feminist scholarly attention. The argu-ment that gender equa…
Policing “conjugal order”
This article develops a feminist critique of debate on hybrid forms of governance in global politics by demonstrating the gendered implications (and limitations) of hybridized approaches to security provision. The conceptual approach that frames my enquiry puts arguments advancing the benefits of multilayered and hybridized security into dialogue with ethnographic enquiry on “vernacular” security and feminist study of “conjugal order.” I contend …
The virtues of strangers? Policing gender violence in Pacific Island countries
This article considers the gap between reformist policy and practice in the policing of gender violence in Pacific Island Countries (PICs) with a key focus on Solomon Islands, Fiji and Kiribati. In doing so, we critically engage with two pervasive arguments in policing scholarship: (1) arguments regarding the value of hybridity and regulatory pluralism in PICs; and (2) the dominant critique of ‘policing by strangers’. We outline and acknowledge t…
Sexual violence and hybrid peacebuilding
This paper reflects on the gendered impacts of hybrid peacebuilding processes in Timor-Leste and Bougainville. We consider the interplaying local and global influences that shape how women's stories of conflict-related sexual violence are received, and consider the silences that often shroud these experiences. In contradiction to the global push to expose sexual violence as part of peacebuilding efforts, we offer a more ethnographically focused e…
The Difference that Gender Makes to International Peace and Security
Postcolonial Theory and Feminism
This entry on postcolonial theory and feminism begins with a brief outline of postcolonial thought and then reflects on where and how this discourse intersects with feminism. From here, tensions between the two fields are examined and key points of debate are discussed. Particular attention is focused on questions of gender and representation in debates on violence against women and postcolonial feminist scholars' responses to the ways this issue…
Global Women's Movement
This discussion of the global women's movement begins with some reflections on its evolution in recent history, the political gains that have been achieved by the movement, and the sites that have emerged as points of tension among the movement's diverse membership. Next it considers the interplay between the global and local realms of women's organizing and connections between activity occurring within the global women's movement and women's gro…
A First Look at the Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Record of Guano Valley, Oregon, USA
Surface sites play a vital role in interpreting terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene (TP/EH) lifeways in the Great Basin. Two years of work in Oregon’s Guano Valley by crews from the University of Nevada, Reno have revealed a rich record of Western Stemmed Tradition occupations associated with an extensive delta system that brought freshwater into the valley from the adjacent tablelands. To date, we have recorded nearly 700 diagnostic TP/EH artifa…
Difference That Gender Makes to International Peace and Security
Experimental construction of hunter-gatherer residential features, mobility, and the costs of occupying “persistent places”
Liberal-local peacebuilding in Solomon Islands and Bougainville
The 'local turn' in peacebuilding has been inspired by the idea that post-conflict order is made more just, representative and legitimate when there is greater recognition and incorporation of local sites of authority. However, the gendered visions of security that may be projected from these spheres have often escaped critical attention. This oversight continues despite growing feminist interest in understanding both the contributions that women…
The impact of eye contact on the sense of agency
Gender, security and Australia’s 2018 Pacific Pivot
The question of how to more effectively engage with the Pacific Islands region became one of the ‘hot’ topics in foreign affairs and security policy circles in Australia in 2018. In response to Chi
A neuroscientific approach to increase gender equality
Con la grande diffusione negli ultimi tempi degli Smartphone alcune grandi aziende hanno sentito la necessita di creare sistemi operativi adatti a questi dispositivi embedded.Tra i piu noti sistemi operativi abbiamo Android, iOS, Maemo e Windowsphone. In questo elaborato si presentera inizialmente il sistema Android, sviluppato sotto il controllo di Google, che ha la caratteristica di avere un kernel derivato da Linux e di ereditare da esso la li…
Do animal Cruelty Exposure and Positive Engagement with Pets Moderate Associations Between Children’s Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Externalizing Behavior Problems
Political science (32 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Law (20 works) · Politics (16 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (13 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (13 works) · Political economy (13 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (11 works)