International Governance, Conflict and Development

Gender and sexuality, whether as structures, practices, subjectivity, demarcations, or performativity, play out in international governance, conflict and development. At the same time, development, international governance, and conflict also create (new) configurations of gender and sexuality. Conflict, international governance, and development are increasingly recognised to inform one another, such as expressed in the security-development nexus and notions of ‘good governance’. This section invites proposals for papers dealing with international governance, conflict and development, or the interconnections between these fields, from feminist, gender and queer perspectives. What are the methodological and theoretical challenges when incorporating gender and sexuality in research in international studies? How can concepts employed to study development, conflict and international governance be interrogated from a gender perspective? What are the normative implications when applying feminist and queer lenses to the arena of international politics? In what ways do discourses, policies, and practices of international governance, conflict and development, contribute to shifting understandings of gender and sexuality? How can we identify and understand discursive and structural linkages between development, conflict and international governance in relation to gender and sexuality? We welcome conceptual as well as empirically based contributions on any geographical area.