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Elisabeth Prügl

Honorary Professor, International Relations/Political Science
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Spoken languages
English, German, French
Theme
  • Gender, Class, Race and Intersectionality
  • Global Governance
  • Peace, War and Conflict
  • Environment and the Anthropocene
  • Civil Society
  • Development and Cooperation
  • Justice, Equity and Inclusion

Profile
 

Professor Prügl is Professeure honoraire at the Geneva Graduate Institute. A faculty member since 2009, she was Deputy Director from 2010 to 2014 and Founding Director of the Institute’s Gender Centre.

Prügl’s research focuses on feminist International Relations and gender politics in international governance. She has written on the international regulation of atypical forms of women’s labor, such as industrial homework and agricultural labor, and on gender mainstreaming and gender expertise in international governance. Current projects center on gendered practices of social
reproduction and survival in a context of violence, in particular the war in Ukraine.

Prügl is a recipient of the Eminent Scholar Award of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section (FTGS) of the International Studies Association (ISA). Since January 2022, she is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Feminist Journal of Politics.
 

GEOGRAPHICAL EXPERTISE 

 

  • Global 

 

THEMATIC EXPERTISE
 

  • Gender in international governance/organizations
  • Feminist political economy
  • Feminist International Relations 

 

RECENT publications
 

Articles

  • 2023. Gender as a Cause of Violent Conflict. International Affairs 99, 5: 1885-1902.  https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiad184.
  • 2022. Gender and the Micro-dynamics of Violent Conflict. International Feminist Journal of Politics 24, 3: 345-367. With Christelle Rigual and Rahel Kunz. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2022.2083652.
  • 2022. Mobilizing Gender for Conflict Prevention: Women’s Situation Rooms. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 16, 3: 249-268. With Paula Drumond and Maria Spano. Online 24 November, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2021.1999136.
  • 2021. Local Peacebuilding Through a Gender Lens. With Rahel Kunz, Christelle Rigual, Mimidoo Achakpa, Henri Myrttinen, Joy Onyesoh, Arifah Rahmawati, and Wening Udasmoro. International Development Policy/Revue international de politique de développement 13. Online at https://journals.openedition.org/poldev/4499.
  • 2021. ‘No Matter What—I’ve Got Rights’: Women’s Land Grab Protests in Banyuwangi, East Java. With Wening Udasmoro. International Development Policy/Revue international de politique de Développement 13. Online at https://journals.openedition.org/poldev/4655.
  • 2021. Agricultural and Land Commercialization – Feminist and Rights Perspectives. With Fenneke Reysoo and Dzodzi Tsikata. Journal of Peasant Studies 48, 7: 1419-38. Online October 4. Open Access. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.1974843.
  • 2021. Productive Farmers and Vulnerable Food Securers: Gender in International Food Security Discourse, with Saba Joshi. Journal of Peasant Studies 48, 7: 1439-58. Online September 8. Open Access at https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.1964475.

Books

  • 2022. Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food: Insights from Ghana and Cambodia. Co-edited with Joanna Bourke-Martignoni, Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, and Dzodzi Tsikata. Routledge.
  • 2022. Gender and the Micro-dynamics of Violent Conflict. Co-edited with Christelle Rigual and Rahel Kunz. Special Section of International Feminist Journal of Politics 24,3.
  • 2021. Gender in Peacebuilding: Local Practices in Indonesia and Nigeria. With Christelle Rigual, Rahel Kunz, Mimidoo Achakpa, Joy Onyesoh, Arifah Rahmawati, and Wening Udasmoro. Brill Publishers. (Open Access in International Development Policy 13/2021, https://journals.openedition.org/poldev/4494).
  • 2021. Commercializing Agriculture/Reorganizing Gender. Co-edited with Dzodzi Tsikata and Fenneke Reysoo. Special Forum in Journal.

GRANTS

  • 2024-27: Swiss National Science Foundation, SOR4D Grant “Caring to Survive, Surviving to Care: Gendered Survival Practices, Social Reproduction and Circuits of Violence in Ukraine” (CHF 953,033).
  • 2022-26: Swiss National Science Foundation, Division 1, “Gendering Survival from the Margins.” (CHF 579,332).
  • 2015-22: Swiss National Science Foundation, r4d Grant “Land Commercialization, Gendered Agrarian Transformation and the Right to Food.” (CHF 3 Mio.)
  • 2014-21: Swiss National Science Foundation, r4d Grant “The Gender Dimensions of Social Conflicts, Armed Violence and Peacebuilding.” (CHF 2.7 Mio.)

AWARDS

  • 2021: Ann Tickner Award. International Studies Association (ISA). For ‘pursuing high-quality, pioneering scholarship that pushes the boundaries of the discipline with a deep commitment to service, especially teaching and mentoring.
  • 2019: Eminent Scholar Award. Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section (FTGS) of the International Studies Association (ISA)

 

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