Gina Heathcote
Biographic Data
| ID | 816223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gina Heathcote |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gina |
| FAMILY NAME | Heathcote |
| SIGNATURE | HEATHCOTE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8922-2720 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Women, Peace, and Security: Posthuman Feminisms and Oceanic Encounters
This article examines the United Nations Security Council resolutions on women, peace and security (WPS) and argues for an expansion of existing agendas to incorporate security away from the repetition of militarized security, extractive capital, and Western humanism through attention to maritime security. Drawing on posthuman feminisms, critical ocean studies, and decolonial and queer feminist engagements with the ocean, I propose the identifica…
Intersectionality and women's participation in peace negotiations
The Women, Peace and Security resolutions have consistently called for women's increased participation at all levels in institutions and mechanisms for preventing, managing and resolving conflict. Despite a long history of feminist interventions to disrupt categories of gender as a stagnant, ahistorical or geographically consistent structure, rationales for women's inclusion continue to rest on problematic narratives and assumptions. We draw on t…
Gender and Sexuality in International Law and Development
This chapter explores the way knowledge on gender and sexuality is ingrained, assumed, invisibilised, or rendered hypervisible, across the intertwined projects of international law and development. The authors argue that the progressions and sites of transnational feminist knowledge generation present significant intellectual nodes for the field of international law and development. At the same time, the interrogation of contemporary lawmaking in…
Abandoning the idealized white subject of legal feminism: A manifesto for silence in a Lusophone register
Through an account of white feminisms and white privilege, this article examines the tensions between local and international knowledge frames. The article considers the possibility of a feminist approach to global constitutionalism and argues for a twofold critique: first, a feminist interrogation of the dominance of a specifically male history of Western and Anglo-European knowledge frames; and second, a self-critique within feminist approaches…
Filters and Fragments: Making Feminist Sense of Security
In this essay, I analyze how feminist work on security is read and understood, where it is located, and the relationship between feminist scholarship and conceptions of security pluralism. I pick up J. Benton Heath's argument that “pluralist security” is a good tool to address widened security agendas and to decolonize international law. 1 I also develop Heath's account of “widened security”—which he associates with feminist security studies and …
I Wouldn’t Want to Be a Gender Expert: ” Gender Experts in Peace Mediation
Peace mediation is a professional practice that is increasingly reliant on thematic technical experts, including gender experts. The strategy of including gender expertise in peace mediation reflects the Women, Peace and Security agenda and the call to include dedicated gender expertise in all peacemaking efforts. Based on interviews with peace mediation practitioners, the article analyzes the role of gender experts in peace mediation. We argue t…
Oceans
Feminist analysis of gendered subjects unlocks a myriad of interdisciplinary debates, encounters and tensions.Oceans as feminist subject are equally and simultaneously comforting and disconcerting.The gendered subject (m/f), once theorised via a binary, hierarchies and description of dichotomy, then shifts and mutates into a fluid, connected, wet space of micro-and macro-organisms that are interconnected.To engage oceans as an interdisciplinary s…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Hygiene, Coloniality and Law
This special issue was conceived in September 2019, just a few months before the outbreak of a virus that quickly became know as COVID-19-a strain of coronavirus causing, among other symptoms, a se
Abortion in Ireland: Introduction to the Themed Issue
Security Council Resolution 2242 on Women, Peace and Security: Progressive Gains or Dangerous Development
This paper challenges the UN Security Council’s approach to women, peace and security through a detailed analysis of participation initiatives in the eight resolutions on women, peace and security, alongside study of the recent shift to include countering terrorism and violent extremism provisions in resolution 2242. Through review of a range of feminist approaches that remain ‘outside’ the strategies leading institutional gender perspectives I s…
Feminist Scholarship on International Law in the 1990s and Today: An Inter-Generational Conversation
War's Perpetuity: Disabled Bodies of War and the Exoskeleton of Equality
This paper responds to battlefield technologies that enhance the endurance and capacities of the wearer, known as exoskeletons. Following the argument that exoskeleton technology is set to provide equality for bodies on the battlefield in the near future, I look at how both law and war construct and continually re-deploy a male body as the standard form of materiality within a deeply embedded masculine subjectivity. As such, the male body provide…
Introduction Violence
Violence is a key factor in the production, maintenance and legitimisation of domination and subordination. People often experience multiple forms of violence that are interrelated, coconstitutive and mutually reinforcing, and that exist at state, institutional and individual levels. This is especially true in relation to violence against women (VAW). Everyday forms of violence and violence as a daily reality are observed in various contexts but …
Eating Us Out of House and Home
Gender Politics in Transitional Justice
Catherine O'Rourke's book Gender Politics in Transitional Justice – a mixture of empirical and conceptual engagement with transitional justice – is a measured and substantial contribution to contem
Naming and Shaming: Human Rights Accountability in Security Council Resolution 1960 (2010) on Women, Peace and Security
This paper provides a critical analysis of the United Nations (UN) Security Council's ‘naming and shaming’ provision in operative paragraph 3 of Security Council resolution 1960 (2010), arguing this is a counterproductive development in the contemporary collective security approach to women, peace and security. Resolution 1960, the fifth Security Council resolution on women, peace and security, significantly extends the Council's approach to chal…
Security Council Resolution 2242 on Women, Peace and Security: Progressive Gains or Dangerous Development
This paper challenges the UN Security Council’s approach to women, peace and security through a detailed analysis of participation initiatives in the eight resolutions on women, peace and security, alongside study of the recent shift to include countering terrorism and violent extremism provisions in resolution 2242. Through review of a range of feminist approaches that remain ‘outside’ the strategies leading institutional gender perspectives I s…
I Wouldn’t Want to Be a Gender Expert: ” Gender Experts in Peace Mediation
Peace mediation is a professional practice that is increasingly reliant on thematic technical experts, including gender experts. The strategy of including gender expertise in peace mediation reflects the Women, Peace and Security agenda and the call to include dedicated gender expertise in all peacemaking efforts. Based on interviews with peace mediation practitioners, the article analyzes the role of gender experts in peace mediation. We argue t…
Naming and Shaming: Human Rights Accountability in Security Council Resolution 1960 (2010) on Women, Peace and Security
This paper provides a critical analysis of the United Nations (UN) Security Council's ‘naming and shaming’ provision in operative paragraph 3 of Security Council resolution 1960 (2010), arguing this is a counterproductive development in the contemporary collective security approach to women, peace and security. Resolution 1960, the fifth Security Council resolution on women, peace and security, significantly extends the Council's approach to chal…
Abortion in Ireland: Introduction to the Themed Issue
Introduction Violence
Violence is a key factor in the production, maintenance and legitimisation of domination and subordination. People often experience multiple forms of violence that are interrelated, coconstitutive and mutually reinforcing, and that exist at state, institutional and individual levels. This is especially true in relation to violence against women (VAW). Everyday forms of violence and violence as a daily reality are observed in various contexts but …
Intersectionality and women's participation in peace negotiations
The Women, Peace and Security resolutions have consistently called for women's increased participation at all levels in institutions and mechanisms for preventing, managing and resolving conflict. Despite a long history of feminist interventions to disrupt categories of gender as a stagnant, ahistorical or geographically consistent structure, rationales for women's inclusion continue to rest on problematic narratives and assumptions. We draw on t…
Oceans
Feminist analysis of gendered subjects unlocks a myriad of interdisciplinary debates, encounters and tensions.Oceans as feminist subject are equally and simultaneously comforting and disconcerting.The gendered subject (m/f), once theorised via a binary, hierarchies and description of dichotomy, then shifts and mutates into a fluid, connected, wet space of micro-and macro-organisms that are interconnected.To engage oceans as an interdisciplinary s…
Feminist Scholarship on International Law in the 1990s and Today: An Inter-Generational Conversation
Naming and Shaming: Human Rights Accountability in Security Council Resolution 1960 (2010) on Women, Peace and Security
This paper provides a critical analysis of the United Nations (UN) Security Council's ‘naming and shaming’ provision in operative paragraph 3 of Security Council resolution 1960 (2010), arguing this is a counterproductive development in the contemporary collective security approach to women, peace and security. Resolution 1960, the fifth Security Council resolution on women, peace and security, significantly extends the Council's approach to chal…
Gender Politics in Transitional Justice
Catherine O'Rourke's book Gender Politics in Transitional Justice – a mixture of empirical and conceptual engagement with transitional justice – is a measured and substantial contribution to contem
Introduction Violence
Violence is a key factor in the production, maintenance and legitimisation of domination and subordination. People often experience multiple forms of violence that are interrelated, coconstitutive and mutually reinforcing, and that exist at state, institutional and individual levels. This is especially true in relation to violence against women (VAW). Everyday forms of violence and violence as a daily reality are observed in various contexts but …
Eating Us Out of House and Home
Security Council Resolution 2242 on Women, Peace and Security: Progressive Gains or Dangerous Development
This paper challenges the UN Security Council’s approach to women, peace and security through a detailed analysis of participation initiatives in the eight resolutions on women, peace and security, alongside study of the recent shift to include countering terrorism and violent extremism provisions in resolution 2242. Through review of a range of feminist approaches that remain ‘outside’ the strategies leading institutional gender perspectives I s…
Feminist Scholarship on International Law in the 1990s and Today: An Inter-Generational Conversation
War's Perpetuity: Disabled Bodies of War and the Exoskeleton of Equality
This paper responds to battlefield technologies that enhance the endurance and capacities of the wearer, known as exoskeletons. Following the argument that exoskeleton technology is set to provide equality for bodies on the battlefield in the near future, I look at how both law and war construct and continually re-deploy a male body as the standard form of materiality within a deeply embedded masculine subjectivity. As such, the male body provide…
Abortion in Ireland: Introduction to the Themed Issue
Introduction to the Special Issue on Hygiene, Coloniality and Law
This special issue was conceived in September 2019, just a few months before the outbreak of a virus that quickly became know as COVID-19-a strain of coronavirus causing, among other symptoms, a se
Filters and Fragments: Making Feminist Sense of Security
In this essay, I analyze how feminist work on security is read and understood, where it is located, and the relationship between feminist scholarship and conceptions of security pluralism. I pick up J. Benton Heath's argument that “pluralist security” is a good tool to address widened security agendas and to decolonize international law. 1 I also develop Heath's account of “widened security”—which he associates with feminist security studies and …
I Wouldn’t Want to Be a Gender Expert: ” Gender Experts in Peace Mediation
Peace mediation is a professional practice that is increasingly reliant on thematic technical experts, including gender experts. The strategy of including gender expertise in peace mediation reflects the Women, Peace and Security agenda and the call to include dedicated gender expertise in all peacemaking efforts. Based on interviews with peace mediation practitioners, the article analyzes the role of gender experts in peace mediation. We argue t…
Oceans
Feminist analysis of gendered subjects unlocks a myriad of interdisciplinary debates, encounters and tensions.Oceans as feminist subject are equally and simultaneously comforting and disconcerting.The gendered subject (m/f), once theorised via a binary, hierarchies and description of dichotomy, then shifts and mutates into a fluid, connected, wet space of micro-and macro-organisms that are interconnected.To engage oceans as an interdisciplinary s…
Gender and Sexuality in International Law and Development
This chapter explores the way knowledge on gender and sexuality is ingrained, assumed, invisibilised, or rendered hypervisible, across the intertwined projects of international law and development. The authors argue that the progressions and sites of transnational feminist knowledge generation present significant intellectual nodes for the field of international law and development. At the same time, the interrogation of contemporary lawmaking in…
Abandoning the idealized white subject of legal feminism: A manifesto for silence in a Lusophone register
Through an account of white feminisms and white privilege, this article examines the tensions between local and international knowledge frames. The article considers the possibility of a feminist approach to global constitutionalism and argues for a twofold critique: first, a feminist interrogation of the dominance of a specifically male history of Western and Anglo-European knowledge frames; and second, a self-critique within feminist approaches…
Intersectionality and women's participation in peace negotiations
The Women, Peace and Security resolutions have consistently called for women's increased participation at all levels in institutions and mechanisms for preventing, managing and resolving conflict. Despite a long history of feminist interventions to disrupt categories of gender as a stagnant, ahistorical or geographically consistent structure, rationales for women's inclusion continue to rest on problematic narratives and assumptions. We draw on t…
Women, Peace, and Security: Posthuman Feminisms and Oceanic Encounters
This article examines the United Nations Security Council resolutions on women, peace and security (WPS) and argues for an expansion of existing agendas to incorporate security away from the repetition of militarized security, extractive capital, and Western humanism through attention to maritime security. Drawing on posthuman feminisms, critical ocean studies, and decolonial and queer feminist engagements with the ocean, I propose the identifica…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Feminism (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Human sexuality (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works)