Dr Paul Kirby (he/him) is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security, and a former Co-Director of the GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub. His research has focused on wartime sexual violence, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, feminist statecraft, global masculinities, and pop cultural politics. His latest book is Governing the Feminist Peace: The Vitality and Failure of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda (Columbia University Press, co-authored with Laura J. Shepherd). Other recent publications include ‘Sexual Violence in the Border Zone’ in International Affairs, ‘The Body Weaponised’ in Security Dialogue, ‘Women, Peace and Security’ in Journal of Global Security Studies, and New Directions in Women, Peace and Security (Bristol University Press, co-edited with Soumita Basu and Laura J. Shepherd).
Selected Publications:
- (with Laura J. Shepherd) ‘Women, Peace and Security: Mapping the (Re)Production of a Policy Ecosystem’, Journal of Global Security Studies, forthcoming 2020. .
- ‘Sexual Violence in the Border Zone: The European Union, the Women, Peace and Security Agenda and Carceral Humanitarianism in Libya’, International Affairs, 96 (5) (2020): 1209-1226. .
- (co-edited with Soumita Basu and Laura Shepherd) New Directions in Women, Peace and Security (Bristol University Press, 2020), including the co-authored and open access chapter ‘Women, Peace and Security: A Critical Cartography'. .
- ‘The Body Weaponized: War, Sexual Violence and the Uncanny’, Security Dialogue, Vol. 51, No. 2-3, 2020. .
- ‘Gender’, in John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia Owens (eds.) The Globalisation of World Politics (Oxford University Press, 8th edition, 2019). .
- ‘Homo Interruptus’, in Marysia Zalewski and Paula Drummond (eds.) Sexual Violence Against Men in Global Politics (Routledge, 2018).
- ‘Political Speech in Fantastical Worlds’, International Studies Review, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2017. .
- (with Laura J. Shepherd) ‘The Futures Past of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda’, International Affairs, Vol. 92, No. 2, 2016. .
- ‘Acting Time; Or, The Abolitionist and the Feminist’, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2015. .
- 'Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict: The Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative and Its Critics', International Affairs, Vol. 91, No. 3, 2015. .
- 'How is Rape a Weapon of War? Feminist International Relations, Modes of Critical Explanation and the Study of Wartime Sexual Violence', European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2013. .
- 'Refusing To Be A Man? Men's Responsibility for War Rape and the Problem of Social Structures in Feminist and Gender Theory', Men and Masculinities, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2013. .
- (with Marsha Henry) 'Rethinking Masculinity and Practices of Violence in Conflict Settings', International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2012. .