Claire Duncanson

Senior Lecturer in International Relations

c.p.duncanson@ed.ac.uk

+44 (0)131 650 4624

Rm 4.24

Chrystal Macmillan Building

15a George Square

Edinburgh

EH8 9LD

Research interests

Gender Politics Research Group

Gender, Gender and international relations, International peacebuilding, International peace and security, Gender and security, Feminism, Masculinities, The military in global politics, Feminist political economy, Feminist political ecology, Women, Peace and security agenda

Claire's research interests lie at the intersection of international security, IR theory and gender politics. Her work applies new theoretical insights about feminism, gender, and masculinities to current international issues, such as military interventions, peacebuilding and nuclear proliferation.

Her recent book, Gender and Peacebuilding, with Polity Press (2016) assesses the Women, Peace and Security agenda and calls for more feminist attention on the political economy of building peace. She has also published on gender and military issues, including a monograph on Forces for Good? Military Masculinities and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan and Iraq (Palgrave Macmillan 2013) and, co-edited with Rachel Woodward, the Palgrave Handbook on Gender and Military (Palgrave Macmillan 2017; read more about it here).

Claire has taught a wide variety of courses at the University of Edinburgh, including Global Politics of Sex and Gender (GPSG), International Security, International Cooperation in Europe and Beyond (ICEB), War and Justice, and Contemporary Feminist Thought. She now teaches an undergraduate honours option, Gender, Peace and Security, and a postgraduate option Gender, War and Peacebuilding.

Claire is a convenor of the Gender Politics Research Group, and member of the International Relations Research Group. She is also an active member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).

She is an affiliated researcher with the Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, working on the Feminist Roadmap for Sustainable Peace project: https://genderandsecurity.org/feminist-roadmap-sustainable-peace

Topics interested in supervising

I welcome enquiries about supervision in all aspects of gender and International Relations, including gender and peacekeeping/peacebuilding, Women, Peace and Security, feminist political economy in post-war contexts, military masculinities, gender and foreign policy and gender and nuclear weapons.

If you are interested in being supervised by Claire Duncanson, please see the link below for more information:

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Background

Qualifications

PhD Politics (University of Edinburgh)
MPhil Peace Studies (Trinity College Dublin)
MA Political Philosophy (Univeristy of York)
BA Hons Combined Social Science (University of Durham)

Biographical Statement

Claire has been a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh since 2009. Prior to her academic career, she worked for a variety of human rights and international development NGOs, including Amnesty International, Jubilee 2000 and Global Perspective.

Selected Publications

Duncanson, Claire. (2018) "Beyond liberal vs liberating: women’s economic empowerment in the United Nations’ Women, Peace and Security agenda." International Feminist Journal of Politics Published online: 16 Oct 2018

Duncanson, C and V Farr (2019) “Afghanistan: The First Test of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda” in Jacqui True and Sara Davies (eds), The Oxford Handbook on Women, Peace and Security, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Bastick, M and C Duncanson (2018) "Agents of Change? Gender Advisors in NATO militaries," International Peacekeeping 25: 4, 554-577.

Bergeron, S, C Cohn and C Duncanson (2017) ‘Rebuilding Bridges: Toward a Feminist Research Agenda for Postwar Reconstruction,” Politics and Gender 13:4, 715-721

Woodward R and Duncanson C (2017) Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military, Palgrave Macmillan

Duncanson, C and R Woodward (2017) “Introduction” to Woodward and Duncanson (eds) Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military, Palgrave Macmillan

Duncanson, C (2017) “Anti-militarist approaches to Gender and the Military” in Woodward and Duncanson (eds) Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military, Palgrave Macmillan

Duncanson, C, N Jenkins and R Woodward (2017) “Military Memoirs” in Woodward and Duncanson (eds) Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military, Palgrave Macmillan

Woodward, R and C Duncanson (2016) ‘Gendered Divisions of Labour in the British Armed Forces’ Defence Studies, 16:3, 205-228

Duncanson, C and R Woodward (2016) "Regendering the Military; theorising women’s military participation" Security Dialogue, 47:1, 3-21

Duncanson, C (2016) Gender and Peacebuilding, Cambridge: Polity Press

Duncanson, C (2015) "Hegemonic Masculinity and the Possibility of Change in Gender Relations." Men and Masculinities 18:2, 231-248

Duncanson, C (2013) Forces for Good? Military Masculinities and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan and Iraq, Palgrave Macmillan

Cornish, H and Duncanson, C, (2012) “Feminist Perspectives on British COIN” in Paul Dixon (ed), The British Approach to Counterinsurgency: From Malaya and Northern Ireland to Iraq and Afghanistan, Palgrave Macmillan

Duncanson, C (2010) "Do Forces for Good contain Real Men? Military Masculinities in the British Army on Operations Other Than War," in Annika Bergman-Rosamond & Mark Phythian (eds), War, Ethics and Justice: New Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World , Routledge

Duncanson, C (2009)"Forces for Good? Narratives of Military Masculinity in Peacekeeping Operations," International Feminist Journal of Politics, Volume 11:1

Duncanson, C & Eschle, C (2008) "Gender and the Nuclear Weapons State: A Feminist Critique of the UK Government's White Paper on Trident", New Political Science, 30:4, 545(special issue on Alternative Globalizations: Challenges to Neoliberalism, Empire, and Militarism). [co-authored on an equal basis]

Works within

Politics and International Relations

Tuesdays 11am to 1pm

Publication	Research Explorer link
Cohn C, Duncanson C. Critical feminist engagements with Green New Deals. Feminist Economics. 2023 Apr 11. Epub 2023 Apr 11. doi: 10.1080/13545701.2023.2184844	View
Cohn C, Duncanson C. Natural resources and the prospects for gender-just sustainable peace. OpenGlobalRights. 2022 Nov 17.	View
Cohn C, Duncanson C. Re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic? The UK Government and the WPS agenda in a time of climate crisis. 2022.	View
Cohn C, Duncanson C. Securitizing climate change: How to not think about the climate crisis. IPI Global Observatory. 2022 Oct 12.	View
Duncanson C, Bastick M, Funnemark A. International climate justice, conflict and gender – Scoping study. The University of Edinburgh, 2022. 60 p. doi: 10.7488/era/1880	View
Bergman Rosamond A, Duncanson C, Gentry C. Opinion paper: Scotland the Brave? An authentic, ambitious and accountable Feminist Foreign Policy. 2022. 18 p.	View
Cohn C, Duncanson C. Extractivist economies and the prospects for gender-just sustainable peace. 2022. Paper presented at Women, Climate, and Insecurity Conference.	View
Cohn C, Duncanson C. Natural resource extraction and the prospects for gender-just sustainable peace. 2022. Paper presented at ISA 2022 Annual Convention, Nashville, United States.	View
Cohn C (Author), Duncanson C (Author). Feminist Engagements with Green New Deals: Are They Green Enough, New Enough, & Who Gets the Raw End of the Deal? Consortium on Gender, Security & Human Rights. 2022.	View
Cohn C, Duncanson C. Create just, inclusive feminist economies to foster sustainable peace. In MacKenzie M, Wegner N, editors, Feminist Solutions for Ending War. London: Pluto Press. 2021. p. 181-199	View
Cohn C, Duncanson C. Whose recovery? 2021.	View
Cohn C, Duncanson C. Women, peace and security in a changing climate. In Shepherd LJ, editor, The Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Place, Space, and Knowledge Production. 1st ed. Routledge. 2021	View
Cohn C, Duncanson C, Corres J, Lee K, Sandys L, Corti MA et al.. Inclusivity in green recovery. 2021. Paper presented at Climate Exp0. doi: 10.33774/coe-2021-v5md1	View
Cohn C, Duncanson C. Women, peace, and security in a changing climate. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 2020 Nov 24;22(5):742-762. Epub 2020 Nov 24. doi: 10.1080/14616742.2020.1843364	View
Cohn C, Duncanson C. Whose recovery? IFI prescriptions for post-war states. Review of International Political Economy. 2020 Apr 8. Epub 2020 Apr 8. doi: 10.1080/09692290.2019.1677743	View
Duncanson C. Masculinities, war and militarism. In Gottzén L, Mellström U, Shefer T, editors, Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies. Routledge. 2019. (Routledge International Handbooks).	View
Duncanson C, Farr V. Testing the women, peace and security agenda: The case of Afghanistan. In Davies SE, True J, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace and Security. Abingdon, UK: Oxford University Press. 2019. p. 553-568. (Oxford Handbooks). Epub 2018 Dec. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190638276.013.42	View
Duncanson C. Beyond liberal vs liberating: Women’s economic empowerment in the United Nations’ Women, Peace and Security Agenda. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 2019 Jan 30;21(1):111-130. Epub 2018 Oct 16. doi: 10.1080/14616742.2018.1518725	View
Bastick M, Duncanson C. Agents of change? Gender advisors in NATO militaries. International Peacekeeping. 2018 Jul 10;25(4):554-577 . Epub 2018 Jul 10. doi: 10.1080/13533312.2018.1492876	View
Duncanson C. [Review of] Gender, UN Peacebuilding and and the Politics of Space: Locating Legitimacy, by Laura J. Shepherd. Ethics & International Affairs. 2018 Jun 8;32(2):251-253. doi: 10.1017/S0892679418000357	View
Bergeron S, Cohn C, Duncanson C. Rebuilding Bridges: Toward a Feminist Research Agenda for Postwar Reconstruction. Politics & Gender. 2017 Dec 1;13(4):715-721. Epub 2017 Nov 24. doi: 10.1017/S1743923X17000368	View
Duncanson C. Women, Insecurity and Violence in a Post-9/11 World, by Bronwyn Winter. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 2017 Nov 15;20(1):112-114. Epub 2017 Nov 15. doi: 10.1080/14616742.2017.1400207	View
Duncanson C. Anti-Militarist Feminist Approaches to Researching Gender and the Military. In Woodward R, Duncanson C, editors, The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military. 1 ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017. p. 39-58 Epub 2017 Jun 25. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-51677-0_3	View
Woodward R, Duncanson C, Jenkings KN. Gender and Military Memoirs. In Woodward R, Duncanson C, editors, The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military. 1 ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017. p. 525 - 542 Epub 2017 Jun 25. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-51677-0_32	View
Woodward R, Duncanson C. An Introduction to Gender and the Military. In Woodward R, Duncanson C, editors, The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military. 1 ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017. p. 1-20 Epub 2017 Jun 25. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-51677-0_1	View
Woodward R, (ed.), Duncanson C, (ed.). The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military. 1 ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 580 p. Epub 2017 Jun 25. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-51677-0	View
Woodward R, Duncanson C. Gendered divisions of military labour in the British armed forces. Defence Studies. 2016 Sep;16(3):205-228. Epub 2016 May 9. doi: 10.1080/14702436.2016.1180958	View
Duncanson C. Gender and Peacebuilding. 1 ed. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016. 240 p.	View
Duncanson C, Woodward R. Regendering the military: Theorizing womens military participation. Security Dialogue. 2016 Feb 1;47(1):3-21. Epub 2015 Dec 8. doi: 10.1177/0967010615614137	View
Duncanson C (Performer), Bell C (Performer), Anders G (Performer), Marks Z (Photographer). Women, Peace And Security – Research Agendas Political Settlements Research Programme. 2015.	View
Duncanson C. Hegemonic Masculinity and the Possibility of Change in Gender Relations. Men and Masculinities. 2015 Jun;18(2):231-248. Epub 2015 May 11. doi: 10.1177/1097184X15584912	View
Duncanson C. Book review: Aili Mari Tripp, Myra Marx Ferree, and Christina Ewig (eds). Gender, Violence, and Human Security: Critical Feminist Perspectives. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 2014;16(4):675-77. Epub 2014 Dec 1. doi: 10.1080/14616742.2014.959857	View
Duncanson C. Forces for Good? Military Masculinities and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan and Iraq. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 216 p. (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies).	View
Duncanson C, Cornish H. A Feminist Approach to British Counterinsurgency. In The British Approach to Counterinsurgency: From Malaya and Northern Ireland to Iraq and Afghanistan. 2012. p. 147-172 doi: 10.1057/9781137284686.0011	View
Duncanson C. Ethics, Gender and Forces for Good: Military Masculinities in British Soldiers’ Accounts of Iraq and Afghanistan. In Bergman-Rosamond A, Phythian M, editors, War, Ethics and Justice: New Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World. Routledge. 2011. p. 91-111	View
Duncanson C. Forces for Good? Narratives of Military Masculinity in Peacekeeping Operations. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 2009 Mar 1;11(1):63-80. doi: 10.1080/14616740802567808	View
Duncanson C, Eschle C. Gender and the Nuclear Weapons State: A Feminist Critique of the UK Government's White Paper on Trident. New Political Science. 2008;30(4):545-563. doi: 10.1080/07393140802518120	View
Duncanson C. Forces for Good: Changing Military Masculinities in the UK Armed Forces. 2006. 45 p.	View