E Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 7522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6865-6562 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1935 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
From caregiver to capability: Recruiting older women into the Australian defence force
Across Western democracies, defence forces face persistent recruitment shortfalls, compounded by declining birth rates, shrinking eligible youth populations, and evolving attitudes toward military service. The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is no exception. This reform note makes the capability case for actively recruiting older women to complement existing recruitment approaches and address women’s attrition driven by caring responsibilities. Th…
Who cares in peacebuilding? Advancing a feminist peace by supporting peacebuilders with caring responsibilities
This article argues that gender-normative assumptions about motherhood marginalise women in formal peacebuilding, sustain the sector’s masculinist structures and practices, and undermine efforts to advance a feminist peace. Analysing the results of a global survey of peacebuilders, this article shows that women peacebuilders often find it difficult to remain in the sector when they become mothers and often feel less valued by management and colle…
The gendered politics of the 'local turn' in peacebuilding: Acholi traditional justice and gender in post-conflict Uganda
Typically, advancing localised approaches to peacebuilding has evaded critical reflection on the power dynamics and harms that can arise. This paper considers the gender dynamics and gendered harms that can manifest themselves when adopting an uncritical approach to localisation in peacebuilding. To do so, it examines the use of mato oput (drinking the bitter root) in post-conflict northern Uganda, as an example of a localised approach to post-co…
Military Gender Advisors, Organizational Change, and Transformational Opportunities: The Discrepancy between Policy and Practice
Military Gender Advisors (GENADs) are an increasingly common feature in global armed forces and military operations. Their role is designed to operate at the strategic level of military organizations to the facilitate implementation of the United Nations Women, Peace, and Security agenda. Despite an overarching policy framework and official discourse that value and support their work, GENADs face significant challenges that undermine their abilit…
Conflict, Covid‐19, and crisis response: Shifting From ‘Pivoting’ to Preparedness
This paper assesses the extent to which the COVID‐19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic directed the attention and resources of the international community away from peacebuilding, and the potential impact of this on conflict‐affected environments. It draws from a global survey, interviews, and conversations with peacebuilding practitioners, publicly available information on peacebuilding funding, and real‐time data on conflict events from the A…
Gendered Aspects of War and International Violence
Armed conflict and violence are gendered. In other words, women, men, girls, boys, and people of diverse gender identities have different experiences of conflict and violence; and gender identities, gender relations, and gender norms help shape conflict and violence. Given that armed conflict and violence are gendered, it is vital that efforts to understand, prevent, and respond to conflict and violence, and to build peace and security, take thes…
Conceptualizing Conflict-Related Child and Early Marriage as Insecurity: At the Intersection of Gender and Age
Child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM) remains prevalent worldwide. Rates are especially high in areas affected by crisis and conflict. CEFM predominately impacts girls, who are married to adult men; it increases their vulnerability to other threats, including physical, economic, and health insecurities, and curtails access to education. Moreover, because of these resultant threats, CEFM entrenches gender inequality and compromises the extent t…
Careless Talk Costs Lives: The Causes and Effects of Marginalising Peacebuilding Practitioners with Caring Responsibilities
This article examines the departure and broader marginalisation of staff with parental and other caring responsibilities from peacebuilding organisations. By drawing from the results of a global survey with peacebuilding practitioners, this research highlights the practical, organisational, cultural, and normative challenges that cause this marginalisation and the resultant individual, organisational, and sectoral harms. The article argues that t…
Peacebuilding practitioners with caring responsibilities: Navigating Covid-19 challenges and opportunities to advance an ethics of care in peacebuilding
This paper investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the engagement of employees with unpaid caring responsibilities in peacebuilding, and the subsequent impact on peacebuilding work.It finds that, while the pandemic compounded the difficulties facing these employees, it also presented opportunities to change work practices to better respond to their needs and, thus, mitigate some of the individual, organisational and sectoral harms tha…
Sea of blood: The Intended and Unintended Effects of Criminalising Humanitarian Volunteers Assisting Migrants in Distress at Sea
This paper investigates the impact of the recent criminalisation of humanitarian actors engaged in the search for and rescue of migrants in distress in the Mediterranean Sea, focusing on the impact on the motivation and engagement of humanitarian volunteers in Greece. It argues that criminalisation is aimed at reducing search and rescue (SAR) activities and thus removing perceived 'pull factors' for migrants. The paper locates this phenomenon wit…
The violent inaction of the state and the camp as site of struggle: The perspectives of humanitarian actors in Moria Camp, Lesvos
Until it was destroyed in a fire in September 2020, Moria camp on the island of Lesvos, Greece, was widely referred to as ‘a living hell’. This article investigates the causes and effects of poor camp conditions from the perspectives of humanitarian actors who have worked in the camp. We argue that poor conditions are intended to perform a deterrent function for both migrants and humanitarian actors. We also argue, however, that such camps are no…
Not a care in the world: An exploration of the personal–professional–political nexus of international development practitioners working in security and justice sector reform
This article explores the implications for international development policy and practice (specifically within security and justice sector reform) of the departure of those assuming caring roles, predominantly women who become mothers. More broadly, the article investigates how personal life stories impact the choices that we make in our professional lives, including where, when, and how we engage, in this instance, in international development, a…
Risks versus Transformational Opportunities in Gender-Responsive Security Sector Reform
This article investigates the gap between policy and practice in gender-responsive security sector reform (SSR) by exploring the ways in which risks perceived to be associated with gender-responsive SSR in conflict-affected environments legitimize inaction. A typology of risks is presented, which range from risks to individuals, security sector institutions, and peacebuilding efforts and encompass security, programmatic, fiduciary, and reputation…
The Researcher and the Researched: Navigating the Challenges of Research in Conflict-Affected Environments
Ethical concerns associated with social science research are heightened in conflict-affected environments, due to increased insecurity and the vulnerability of many research participants. This article considers some of the main challenges faced by researchers in conflict-affected environments and how they can be addressed, focusing in particular on ethical and security challenges. It also considers other challenges, which are often overlooked, su…
Addressing the security needs of adolescent girls in protracted crises: Inclusive, responsive, and effective
Adolescent girls face significant and often unique forms of insecurity in protracted crises. Yet, their specific needs tend to be overlooked by international agencies, and they are rarely consulted as programs are developed and implemented. Drawing from field research conducted in four crisis contexts—Lake Chad (Niger, Nigeria, and Cameroon), South Sudan and Uganda, Lebanon (Beirut), and Bangladesh (Cox’s Bazar)—this article explores the experien…
Power, poverty and peacebuilding: The violence that sustains inequalities and undermines peace in Colombia
Despite the promise of the 2016 Colombian peace agreement, this paper argues that the intersection of poverty, insecurity and exclusion threatens sustainable peace in Colombia. In asserting this argument, the paper advances two case studies: the false positives scandal, which demonstrates the vulnerability of the poor to various security threats, and the coca eradication programme, which has fuelled further violence and economic insecurity on imp…
Co-operation, Contestation and Complexity in Post-Conflict Security Sector Reform
Security Sector Reform (SSR) remains a key feature of peacebuilding interventions and is usually undertaken by a state alongside national and international partners. External actors engaged in SSR tend to follow a normative agenda that often has little regard for the context in post-conflict societies. Despite recurrent criticism, SSR practices of international organisations and bilateral donors often remain focused on state institutions, and oft…
Gender and Defence Sector Reform: Problematising the Place of Women in Conflict-Affected Environments
While gender-responsive Security Sector Reform (SSR) is increasingly recognised as being key to successful SSR programmes, women continue to be marginalised in post-conflict SSR programmes, particularly defence sector reform. By focussing on developments in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kosovo and Colombia, this article explores the paradox of women’s marginalisation in defence sector reform and post-reform defence structures in places where women were activ…
Crimes of the Powerful in Conflict-Affected Environments: False Positives, Transitional Justice and the Prospects for Peace in Colombia
This article examines factors which led to what became known as the “false positives” scandal in Colombia, in order to analyse the extent to which socio-economic inequalities and the persecution of the poor impact conflict dynamics and prospects for sustainable peace. The false positives scandal concerned the arbitrary execution of, principally, poor, marginalized male civilians by the military, sometimes in collaboration with illegal armed group…
Irregular Marriage and Cohabitation in Scotland, 1855–1939: Official Policy and Popular Practice
Scotland was unique in Western Europe in continuing to accord legal validity to irregular marriage until 1939 with one form of irregular marriage remaining legal until 2006. This article examines official attitudes to irregular marriage in Scotland in the period 1855–1939 as well as its incidence and popularity amongst the populace. The article argues that irregular marriage was narrowly defined by the authorities as meaning those irregular marri…
Security Sector Reform, Statebuilding and Local Ownership: Securing the State or its People
It is widely acknowledged that while local ownership is one of the core principles of successful Security Sector Reform (SSR) programmes, the concept is narrowly interpreted in terms of who owns what. Moreover, the focus of SSR is often on building state institutions, rather than building the relationship between people and the state, which further limits the extent to which people, particularly at the community level, are engaged in SSR processe…
Twenty‐five Years of Gender & History
The State of Scottish History: Gender
No abstract available
Irregular Marriage: Myth and Reality
This article examines the historiography, the law, and the practice of irregular marriage in Britain. It argues that there has been a confusion of terms in the historiography of irregular marriage that has served to obscure its meaning, pattern, and incidence. Using evidence from Scotland where irregular marriage continued to be legally valid until 1939 (with one form remaining legally valid until 2006), the article argues that despite its legall…
Regional disparities in cancer survival following the NHS National Cancer Plan for England: An analysis by cancer network
Objective Reducing geographic inequalities in survival from cancer in England was a key aim of the Calman-Hine Report (1995) and the NHS Cancer Plan (2000). In this paper we assess whether regional differences have diminished following these policy developments by analysing the trend in one-year relative survival from six cancers in the 28 Cancer Networks of England. Methods We estimated population-based relative survival at one year for 1.4 mill…
Security Sector Reform, Statebuilding and Local Ownership: Securing the State or its People
It is widely acknowledged that while local ownership is one of the core principles of successful Security Sector Reform (SSR) programmes, the concept is narrowly interpreted in terms of who owns what. Moreover, the focus of SSR is often on building state institutions, rather than building the relationship between people and the state, which further limits the extent to which people, particularly at the community level, are engaged in SSR processe…
Sea of blood: The Intended and Unintended Effects of Criminalising Humanitarian Volunteers Assisting Migrants in Distress at Sea
This paper investigates the impact of the recent criminalisation of humanitarian actors engaged in the search for and rescue of migrants in distress in the Mediterranean Sea, focusing on the impact on the motivation and engagement of humanitarian volunteers in Greece. It argues that criminalisation is aimed at reducing search and rescue (SAR) activities and thus removing perceived 'pull factors' for migrants. The paper locates this phenomenon wit…
Co-operation, Contestation and Complexity in Post-Conflict Security Sector Reform
Security Sector Reform (SSR) remains a key feature of peacebuilding interventions and is usually undertaken by a state alongside national and international partners. External actors engaged in SSR tend to follow a normative agenda that often has little regard for the context in post-conflict societies. Despite recurrent criticism, SSR practices of international organisations and bilateral donors often remain focused on state institutions, and oft…
Women, Work and Collective Action: Dundee Jute Workers 1870 - 1906
Journal Article Women, Work and Collective Action: Dundee Jute Workers 1870 – 1906 Get access Eleanor Gordon Eleanor Gordon University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 21, Issue 1, Fall 1987, Pages 27–47, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/21.1.27 Published: 01 October 1987
The Researcher and the Researched: Navigating the Challenges of Research in Conflict-Affected Environments
Ethical concerns associated with social science research are heightened in conflict-affected environments, due to increased insecurity and the vulnerability of many research participants. This article considers some of the main challenges faced by researchers in conflict-affected environments and how they can be addressed, focusing in particular on ethical and security challenges. It also considers other challenges, which are often overlooked, su…
Power, poverty and peacebuilding: The violence that sustains inequalities and undermines peace in Colombia
Despite the promise of the 2016 Colombian peace agreement, this paper argues that the intersection of poverty, insecurity and exclusion threatens sustainable peace in Colombia. In asserting this argument, the paper advances two case studies: the false positives scandal, which demonstrates the vulnerability of the poor to various security threats, and the coca eradication programme, which has fuelled further violence and economic insecurity on imp…
The economic role of middle-class women in Victorian Glasgow
It has long been recognised that working-class women in the nineteenth century participated in waged labour, albeit dependent on marital status, stage in family life cycle, and locality. Middle-class women's economic role has been less fully explored, although it has been acknowledged that they played an informal, ‘hidden’ role in the economy. This article examines the extent of middle-class women's economic activity and independence by looking i…
The violent inaction of the state and the camp as site of struggle: The perspectives of humanitarian actors in Moria Camp, Lesvos
Until it was destroyed in a fire in September 2020, Moria camp on the island of Lesvos, Greece, was widely referred to as ‘a living hell’. This article investigates the causes and effects of poor camp conditions from the perspectives of humanitarian actors who have worked in the camp. We argue that poor conditions are intended to perform a deterrent function for both migrants and humanitarian actors. We also argue, however, that such camps are no…
Gender and Defence Sector Reform: Problematising the Place of Women in Conflict-Affected Environments
While gender-responsive Security Sector Reform (SSR) is increasingly recognised as being key to successful SSR programmes, women continue to be marginalised in post-conflict SSR programmes, particularly defence sector reform. By focussing on developments in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kosovo and Colombia, this article explores the paradox of women’s marginalisation in defence sector reform and post-reform defence structures in places where women were activ…
Crimes of the Powerful in Conflict-Affected Environments: False Positives, Transitional Justice and the Prospects for Peace in Colombia
This article examines factors which led to what became known as the “false positives” scandal in Colombia, in order to analyse the extent to which socio-economic inequalities and the persecution of the poor impact conflict dynamics and prospects for sustainable peace. The false positives scandal concerned the arbitrary execution of, principally, poor, marginalized male civilians by the military, sometimes in collaboration with illegal armed group…
Domestic Fathers and the Victorian Parental Role
Discourses of motherhood and domesticity played an important role in structuring middle‐class women’s lives and identities in the nineteenth century. However, it has become increasingly clear that how the idealised role of motherhood was conceived, interpreted and experienced varied enormously. Although Victorian motherhood is usually viewed as being constituted by the private realm, there was also a public dimension to this ostensibly private ro…
The myth of the Victorian patriarchal family
Conventionally, the Victorian middle-class family has been regarded as a social and economic unit usually headed by a married man. The woman's role within this unit has been associated with service and dependency. However, a study of a middle-class area of Glasgow based upon the census returns of 1851–1891 suggests that the widely held image of the Victorian middle-class family as headed by a paterfamilias may be misplaced. The high incidence of …
Conceptualizing Conflict-Related Child and Early Marriage as Insecurity: At the Intersection of Gender and Age
Child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM) remains prevalent worldwide. Rates are especially high in areas affected by crisis and conflict. CEFM predominately impacts girls, who are married to adult men; it increases their vulnerability to other threats, including physical, economic, and health insecurities, and curtails access to education. Moreover, because of these resultant threats, CEFM entrenches gender inequality and compromises the extent t…
Careless Talk Costs Lives: The Causes and Effects of Marginalising Peacebuilding Practitioners with Caring Responsibilities
This article examines the departure and broader marginalisation of staff with parental and other caring responsibilities from peacebuilding organisations. By drawing from the results of a global survey with peacebuilding practitioners, this research highlights the practical, organisational, cultural, and normative challenges that cause this marginalisation and the resultant individual, organisational, and sectoral harms. The article argues that t…
Not a care in the world: An exploration of the personal–professional–political nexus of international development practitioners working in security and justice sector reform
This article explores the implications for international development policy and practice (specifically within security and justice sector reform) of the departure of those assuming caring roles, predominantly women who become mothers. More broadly, the article investigates how personal life stories impact the choices that we make in our professional lives, including where, when, and how we engage, in this instance, in international development, a…
Addressing the security needs of adolescent girls in protracted crises: Inclusive, responsive, and effective
Adolescent girls face significant and often unique forms of insecurity in protracted crises. Yet, their specific needs tend to be overlooked by international agencies, and they are rarely consulted as programs are developed and implemented. Drawing from field research conducted in four crisis contexts—Lake Chad (Niger, Nigeria, and Cameroon), South Sudan and Uganda, Lebanon (Beirut), and Bangladesh (Cox’s Bazar)—this article explores the experien…
Irregular Marriage: Myth and Reality
This article examines the historiography, the law, and the practice of irregular marriage in Britain. It argues that there has been a confusion of terms in the historiography of irregular marriage that has served to obscure its meaning, pattern, and incidence. Using evidence from Scotland where irregular marriage continued to be legally valid until 1939 (with one form remaining legally valid until 2006), the article argues that despite its legall…
Natural Landscape Preferences: A Predictive Model”: Comments
Natural Landscape Preferences: A Predictive Model": Comments." Journal of Leisure Research, 1(2), p. 195
Des juges qui ne gouvernent pas: Opinions dissidentes à la cour suprême des Etats-Unis (1900-1933)
A Land Use Map of Kuntaur in the Gambia
The oxford university expedition to the Gambia in 1948 spent most of its time at Kunta r (a river port 150 miles up e Gambia river from Bathurst, the capital) where it carried out a land use and soil survey of an area of about 12 square miles.1 The land use map can make no claim to real accuracy; it aims only at giving a general indication of the pattern of land use in this part of the Gambia. Three geographers were responsible for the survey?C. …
Is trying enough? A report of treatment during the latency period of a girl with atypical development: Workshop, 1954
Natural Landscape Preferences: A Predictive Model”: Comments
Natural Landscape Preferences: A Predictive Model": Comments." Journal of Leisure Research, 1(2), p. 195
Everywoman's Jewelry: Early Plastics and Equality in Fashion
Women, Work and Collective Action: Dundee Jute Workers 1870 - 1906
Journal Article Women, Work and Collective Action: Dundee Jute Workers 1870 – 1906 Get access Eleanor Gordon Eleanor Gordon University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 21, Issue 1, Fall 1987, Pages 27–47, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/21.1.27 Published: 01 October 1987
Short notices
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Suffolk and the Tudors: Politics and Religion in an English County 1500–1600 (1986), xxi + 454 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £35.00). Wendy Griswold, Renaissance Revivals: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy in the London Theatre 1576–1980 (1987), ix + 288 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, £19.95). C. Hudemann‐Simon, La Noblesse luxembourgeoise au xviiie siècle (The Luxembourg Nobility in the Eighteenth Century) (1985…
The World Is Ill Divided: Women's Work in Scotland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
The view from the workplace: women's memories of work in Stirling c. 1910 - 1950, Jayne D Stephenson and Callum G Brown The wages of sin: women, work and sexuality in the 19th century, Linda Mahood women in the printing and paper trades in Edwardian Scotland, Sian Reynolds early Glasgow women medical graduates, Wendy Alexander ye never get a spell to think aboot it - young women and employment in the inter-war period, a case-study of a textile vi…
The Making of Scotland: Nation, Culture and Social Change
Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1850-1914
Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1850-1914
People and Power in Scotland: Essays in Honour of T. C. Smout
Middle-Class Family Structure in Nineteenth-Century Glasgow
This article is based on a study of a sample of middle-class households in Glasgow in the second half of the nineteenth century. The empirical findings are intended to add to the currently sketchy picture of middle-class household structure in the high Victorian period, to enable the authors to draw firmer conclusions about the incidence, composition, and explanation of middle-class coresidence patterns. On the basis of this study, and the small …
The economic role of middle-class women in Victorian Glasgow
It has long been recognised that working-class women in the nineteenth century participated in waged labour, albeit dependent on marital status, stage in family life cycle, and locality. Middle-class women's economic role has been less fully explored, although it has been acknowledged that they played an informal, ‘hidden’ role in the economy. This article examines the extent of middle-class women's economic activity and independence by looking i…
Captan and Folpet
The myth of the Victorian patriarchal family
Conventionally, the Victorian middle-class family has been regarded as a social and economic unit usually headed by a married man. The woman's role within this unit has been associated with service and dependency. However, a study of a middle-class area of Glasgow based upon the census returns of 1851–1891 suggests that the widely held image of the Victorian middle-class family as headed by a paterfamilias may be misplaced. The high incidence of …
Domestic Fathers and the Victorian Parental Role
Discourses of motherhood and domesticity played an important role in structuring middle‐class women’s lives and identities in the nineteenth century. However, it has become increasingly clear that how the idealised role of motherhood was conceived, interpreted and experienced varied enormously. Although Victorian motherhood is usually viewed as being constituted by the private realm, there was also a public dimension to this ostensibly private ro…
Regional disparities in cancer survival following the NHS National Cancer Plan for England: An analysis by cancer network
Objective Reducing geographic inequalities in survival from cancer in England was a key aim of the Calman-Hine Report (1995) and the NHS Cancer Plan (2000). In this paper we assess whether regional differences have diminished following these policy developments by analysing the trend in one-year relative survival from six cancers in the 28 Cancer Networks of England. Methods We estimated population-based relative survival at one year for 1.4 mill…
Twenty‐five Years of Gender & History
The State of Scottish History: Gender
No abstract available
Irregular Marriage: Myth and Reality
This article examines the historiography, the law, and the practice of irregular marriage in Britain. It argues that there has been a confusion of terms in the historiography of irregular marriage that has served to obscure its meaning, pattern, and incidence. Using evidence from Scotland where irregular marriage continued to be legally valid until 1939 (with one form remaining legally valid until 2006), the article argues that despite its legall…
Security Sector Reform, Statebuilding and Local Ownership: Securing the State or its People
It is widely acknowledged that while local ownership is one of the core principles of successful Security Sector Reform (SSR) programmes, the concept is narrowly interpreted in terms of who owns what. Moreover, the focus of SSR is often on building state institutions, rather than building the relationship between people and the state, which further limits the extent to which people, particularly at the community level, are engaged in SSR processe…
Irregular Marriage and Cohabitation in Scotland, 1855–1939: Official Policy and Popular Practice
Scotland was unique in Western Europe in continuing to accord legal validity to irregular marriage until 1939 with one form of irregular marriage remaining legal until 2006. This article examines official attitudes to irregular marriage in Scotland in the period 1855–1939 as well as its incidence and popularity amongst the populace. The article argues that irregular marriage was narrowly defined by the authorities as meaning those irregular marri…
Crimes of the Powerful in Conflict-Affected Environments: False Positives, Transitional Justice and the Prospects for Peace in Colombia
This article examines factors which led to what became known as the “false positives” scandal in Colombia, in order to analyse the extent to which socio-economic inequalities and the persecution of the poor impact conflict dynamics and prospects for sustainable peace. The false positives scandal concerned the arbitrary execution of, principally, poor, marginalized male civilians by the military, sometimes in collaboration with illegal armed group…
Co-operation, Contestation and Complexity in Post-Conflict Security Sector Reform
Security Sector Reform (SSR) remains a key feature of peacebuilding interventions and is usually undertaken by a state alongside national and international partners. External actors engaged in SSR tend to follow a normative agenda that often has little regard for the context in post-conflict societies. Despite recurrent criticism, SSR practices of international organisations and bilateral donors often remain focused on state institutions, and oft…
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