Dr Claire Duncanson

Senior Lecturer in International Relations

Research Interests

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 a 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 inquiries 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:

PhD in Politics

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

Publications

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

Duncanson C, Cohn C. Critical feminist engagements with Green New Deals. Feminist Economics. 2022 Aug 15.

Bergman Rosamond A, Duncanson C, Gentry C. Opinion paper: Scotland the Brave? An authentic, ambitious and accountable Feminist Foreign Policy. 2022. 18 p.

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.

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

Cohn C, Duncanson C. Whose recovery? 2021.

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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