Marsha Henry

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Cover of Eating the Ocean by Elspeth Probyn. Cover image is a blue-toned photo of large fish swimming underwater.

We are sorry to learn of the death of Elspeth Probyn, Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies at @sydney.edu.au and author of "Eating the Ocean" (2016). Our thoughts are with her family, friends, colleagues and students.

Women's History Month - University of Pennsylvania Press March is Women's History Month, commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history. To mark this occasion, Penn Press is sharing a…

Our 2025 Women's History Month sale ends on March 31! Browse our collection & use code PENN-WHM2025 for 40% off paperbacks and hardcovers and code PENN-WHM2025-E for 50% off ebooks!

Oral history interview with Sandra Harding Sandra Harding was born in San Francisco, California, the first of five children born to Lloyd and Constance Harding. Her father's struggle to find work during the Great Depression led the family to L...

A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️

Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women.

Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.

Author Omer Aijazi will discuss his book ATMOSPHERIC VIOLENCE—an ethnography exploring the lives of people in the militarized, ecologically fragile borderlands of Kashmir—in a virtual event hosted by the Center for South Asian Studies at UC Santa Cruz tomorrow at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET: bit.ly/4bqresW

Women's History Month - University of Pennsylvania Press March is Women's History Month, commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history. To mark this occasion, Penn Press is sharing a colle...

Announcing our 2025 Women's History Month sale, featuring special discounts on women’s history and studies books published in the past five years!

Browse the collection & learn how you can save 40% on paperbacks & hardcovers and 50% on ebooks through 3/31: www.pennpress.org/womens-histo...

Disabled people around the world are disproportionately likely to be murdered by family, partners and/or caretakers. On Disability Day of Mourning, please take a moment to mourn with us
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And on Tuesday I am so pleased that these incredible scholars will be joining me for a discussion on Fixing Gender. Shepherded, as ever, by the inimitable @mghacademic.bsky.social

I’m kicking off the conference tomorrow by celebrating @mghacademic.bsky.social new book 🤩 with @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @rogermacginty.bsky.social and other fabulous discussants

Visiting Scholar - Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program - Houston, Texas, United States Department: Women's Studies Program Salary: Commensurate with experience Description: The Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS) at the University of Houston invites applications ...

#Postdoc in Women, Gender and Queer studies, Uni Texas, careers.uh.edu/jobs/visitin...

Excited for my upcoming book launch at LSE in conversation with the brilliant @karinwahlj.bsky.social Rosalind Gill, Goldsmiths, and Radha Hegde, NYU!

Black History Month - University of Pennsylvania Press February is Black History Month, which pays tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society. To mark this occasion, Penn......

Announcing our 2025 Black History Month sale! Browse our collection of African American history and studies books from the past five years, and save 40% on paperbacks and hardcovers and 50% on ebooks!

www.pennpress.org/black-histor...

Emma Hutchison’s work on emotions and international relations defined and informed a generation of scholarship. We have put together a special collection honoring the legacy of Emma's work, including her RIS article and 8 others which have built on it.

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The weaponisation of victimhood | LSE Research Why are populists increasingly adopting the language of victimhood? Lilie Chouliaraki’s book Wronged explores why victimisation has become a political tool.

“We usually think that victims are powerless and passive: vulnerable individuals or marginalised groups who suffer injustices or trauma. But what does it mean when we hear powerful individuals claiming that they are victims and they do so to gain even more power?” www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...

Sending so much gratitude for this generosity!

The End of Peacekeeping: Gender, Race, and the Martial Politics of InterventionBy Marsha Henry, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. 208 pp. $55.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐1512825237 Click on the article title to read more.

My review of @mghacademic.bsky.social’s wonderful new book, The End of Peacekeeping, is out with Peace & Change: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Ebooks are now available on pennpress.org! Read more about this exciting news on our blog (ow.ly/6mkW50ULaRF) and use code PENN-EBOOKS for 45% off all available ebooks from now through January 31!

Politics and International Relations provision in UK higher education This report provides insight into the health of the Politics and International Relations disciplines over the last decade.

The British Academy has published a detailed report on the provision of Politics and International Relations in UK universities - well worth a read for those interested in the field @britishacademy.bsky.social

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

A visual guide to the destruction of Gaza Satellite imagery, maps, video footage and graphics show how Gaza has been left in ruins by Israel’s war against Hamas

It can be difficult to visualize from afar the scale and scope of the violence and damage done in Gaza over the last 15 months. This visual guide helps www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Patrice Lumumba: May Africa breathe the air of freedom Prime Minister of Congo June-Sept 1960 (Assasinated)

On the 17th of January 1961, Patrice Lumumba of Congo was brutally killed. Here I write about him and how and why he was killed, his corpse dismembered, dissolved in sulfuric acid, yet his freedom dreams live on for us all.

folukeafrica.com/patrice-lumu...

#Postdoc in Palestine Studies at Yale MES for scholars of the history, society, politics, language, culture of Palestinians and the broader study of the Middle East. Prefer candidates whose research focuses on the early modern or modern period.

Please share widely!

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Petition: Do not stop transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards The previous government proposed changes to the NHS constitution which would mean transgender hospital patients in England may not be treated in female- and male-only wards. We believe that this segre...

Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it.

#Trans #LGBTQ #UK

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Films at the Whitney Presents Palestine through Film Mark your calendars for Films at the Whitney’s spring 2025 series: Palestine through Film. Curated by two Yale graduate students, Palestine through Film chronicles key moments in Palestinian

Mark your calendars! 🇵🇸 📽️ Palestine through Film chronicles key moments in Palestinian history—from the Nakba of 1948 to the present occupation. These weekly screenings of documentaries, historical dramas, and shorts open a window onto the mosaic of life in Palestine.

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The End of Peacekeeping with Marsha Henry - Visualising War and Peace In this episode, Alice interviews Professor Marsha Henry, the Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women, Peace, Security and Justice at the Mitchell Institute, at Queen’s University Belfast. Ove...

Hello! We're migrating from other social media, hoping that this place is healthier! We'd really appreciate help rebuilding our 1000s of followers - many thanks! To kick off, here's a link to our latest podcast - Prof. Marsha Henry on 'the end of peacekeeping': www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...

The Movie ‘Detroit’: Telling Tales of a Wretched Night Fanon and Depicting the Wretched

In this essay on the movie "Detroit" [2017], I ask if it is possible to tell stories of racism that do more than retraumatise the already brutalised. Can this wretched earth, suffused as it is in an atmosphere of violence [Fanon], learn freedom again through film?

folukeafrica.com/detroit-the-...

LISTEN: Author Kerry Smith discusses his book PREDICTING DISASTERS, which chronicles Japan's efforts to study earthquakes in the 20th and early 21st centuries, with Sarah Bramao-Ramos on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social's New Books in East Asian Studies podcast!

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Diversity of thought as ‘mission critical’: Knowledge, politics and power in UK national security policymaking Abstract The idea that diversity and inclusion in policymaking institutions is a national security imperative because it enhances ‘diversity of thought’ has proliferated among policymakers in recent years. Building on critical, feminist and postcolonial scholarship arguing that constructions of gender, race and class undergird hegemonic militaristic and colonial approaches to security, this article analyses how the discourse on diversity of thought occasionally challenges, but more often reinforces these hegemonic approaches. Based on interviews with UK civil servants, the article explores how this discourse, and consequent measures to promote diversity of thought by creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace, have developed in the UK national security community, analysing how officials interpret the relationship between demographic diversity and knowledge production. Using feminist epistemologies as a heuristic, the article argues that although some officials view this agenda as a means to challenge militaristic thinking, the commonplace exclusion of structural power analysis places hard constraints on its ability to achieve this end and has enabled its recuperation by far-right anti-equality agendas. Ultimately, the politics of diversity are insufficient to overcome UK national security institutions’ commitment to militarism, which demands attention to the material structures that make militaristic approaches to security appear necessary.

I'm grateful to Security Dialogue for publishing my new (open access) article exploring how discourses on promoting 'diversity of thought' circulate in the UK national security policy community, and the political work they do in relation to hegemonic security thinking 🧵: doi.org/10.1177/0967...