Books, Articles and PhDs

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Of Norms and Networks: Theorising the Vital Link between Norm Contestation and Network Globalisation

The globalisation of advocacy and policy networks, including the dynamics of power that shape them, is integral to the emergence and evolution of norms. Yet the relationship between norms and networks remains undertheorised. How far and in what ways do changes in network structures affect the dynamism and diffusion of norms?

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Values, gender and foreign policy

Values and gender are an increasingly established part of Australian foreign policy. This chapter explores their role in Australia’s engagement in the world from 2016 to 2020.

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A Qualitative Exploration of the Impact of Increasing Criminalization on Domestic Violence Support Workers: Nonfatal Strangulation as a Case Study

Specialized nongovernmental domestic violence (DV) services provide critical support to victim/survivors. This research examines how expanded criminalization impacts support workers’ roles.

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Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on responses to technology-facilitated coercive control

This paper examines the experiences of victim-survivors, and the challenges support services face, responding to these harms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown restrictions.

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Exploring Christian Lutheran theological framings that shape men’s perpetration of domestic violence through pastor perspectives

The inclusion of theological beliefs and practices in the analysis of domestic violence is needed, hence this paper explores how Christian theological framings shape men’s perpetration of domestic violence.

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Exploring the Theological Context to Domestic and Family Violence

This article explores the theological drivers of domestic and family violence (DFV)—specifically intimate partner violence—by engaging with ecclesiastical beliefs and practices of the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA).

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Gender gaps in the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

In this paper we examine whether there are significant gender differences in the adoption of climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices in sub-Saharan Africa.

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The global rise of extremisms: towards a gendered analytical framework

This article applies the gender typology to far-right, Buddhist and Islamist extremisms, illustrating the analytical power of gender to explain and interpret diverse extremisms while highlighting patterns and relationships across them in global politics.

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Intersectionality and rehabilitation: how gendered, racial and religious assumptions structure the rehabilitation and reintegration of women returnees

Women associated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are returning to their home countries from camps in northern Syria and require prosecution, rehabilitation and reintegration.