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Journal Articles by Jamie J . Hagen

British Educational Research Journal, 2022

This paper considers queer feminist interruptions as a way to halt, reverse and rethink internati... more This paper considers queer feminist interruptions as a way to halt, reverse and rethink internationalisation in UK higher education (HE). These points of intervention are situated within the queer development

Human Rights Quarterly, 2023

The adoption of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda by the UN Security Council constituted... more The adoption of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda by the UN Security Council constituted a forum-shift by women's rights advocates away from the human rights system. As queer critique of the WPS agenda gathers pace, this article reflects on the antecedents of the queer exclusions of the WPS agenda in international human rights law. The article thereby reveals the consequences in other international law regimes of human rights law's queer exclusions. The article concludes with some tentative proposals to utilise the pluralism of international human rights law to expand queer possibilities for both human rights and WPS. Co-authored with Catherine O'Rourke.

Revista de Estudios Sociales , Jan 1, 2023

This article explores what queer as a concept brings to peacebuilding, presenting a guiding frame... more This article explores what queer as a concept brings to peacebuilding, presenting a guiding framework and introduction for a special issue on queer peacebuilding. It offers an initial approach to the topic, which means to center queer and trans perspectives of peace and bring queer epistemologies to bear on how peace is constituted so as to reartic- ulate the concept both in theory and praxis. In doing so, it addresses an unexamined gap in peacebuilding efforts to achieve gender justice and inclusive security in conflict-affected societies, namely the unique experiences of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer) individuals and their collective efforts to achieve social justice in these contexts. The authors approach the topic of queer peacebuilding through three questions: What is queer peacebuilding?, ‘Why is queer peacebuilding important? and What can queer peacebuilding contribute? While the impacts of queer peacebuilding in sites of conten- tious politics around the globe are visible, it remains an emergent and somewhat elusive concept, still under construction within peace and security scholarship and practice. By presenting a conceptualization of the notion of queer peacebuilding, the authors seek to further academic efforts to construct and analyze queer peace.

Este artículo explora lo que aporta el concepto queer/cuir a la construcción de paz, exponiendo un marco de referencia y una introducción para un número temático sobre la construcción de paz queer/cuir. Se presenta una aproximación inicial a este tema, lo que significa centrar las perspectivas queer/cuir y trans de la paz, así como aportar epistemologías queer/cuir a la forma en que se constituye la paz para rearticular el concepto tanto en la teoría, como en la práctica. Con ello, se aborda un vacío en los esfuerzos de construcción de la paz que buscan alcanzar justicia de género y seguridad inclusiva en sociedades afectadas por conflictos, es decir, se examinan las experiencias únicas de las personas LGBTQ (lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, trans y queer) y sus esfuerzos colectivos en pos de lograr la justicia social en esos contextos. Los autores abordan el tema de la construcción de la paz queer/cuir a través de tres preguntas: ¿qué es la construcción de la paz queer/cuir?, ¿por qué es importante la construcción de la paz queer/cuir? y ¿en qué puede contribuir la construcción de la paz queer/cuir?. Aunque los impactos de la consolidación de la paz queer/cuir en los lugares de conflicto político de todo el mundo son visibles, este sigue siendo un concepto emergente y un tanto esquivo, que todavía se está construyendo dentro de los estudios y las prácticas de paz y seguridad. Al presentar una conceptualización de la noción de construcción de la paz queer/cuir, los autores pretenden impulsar los esfuerzos académicos para construirla y analizarla.

Peace Review, 2022

In November 2021 Jamie J. Hagen spoke with trans rights activist Nikita Simonne Dupuis-Vargas Lat... more In November 2021 Jamie J. Hagen spoke with trans rights activist Nikita Simonne Dupuis-Vargas Latorre from Bogota, Colombia. Nikita has worked as an activist on issues of transmasculinities and depathologization of identities for 15 years. Nikita is a social communicator and journalist from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. He has worked as a public official since 2010 in the District Mayor’s Office of Bogota for the territorialization of LGBT Public Policy. He has also worked as a consultant for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for the LGBTI differential approach in the care of victims of the armed conflict and is an investigator of the Gender
Group of the Truth Commission of Colombia. He is a candidate for a master’s degree in Research on Contemporary Social Problems at the Central University of Bogota. For this interview Nikita spoke about his work over the
past decade and a half at the intersection of anti-militarization and trans rights. The interview was conducted via Zoom with the aid of an interpreter and has been edited for length. The interview is part of the forthcoming book Queering Women, Peace and Security

European Journal of Politics and Gender, 2022

In all regions, people experience violence and discrimination because of their sexual orientation... more In all regions, people experience violence and discrimination because of their sexual orientation and gender identity. In many cases, even the perception of homosexuality or trans-gender identity puts people at risk. 1 After 15 years of advocacy and policy action related to the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) architecture, 2 the continued silence about homophobic and trans-phobic violence targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) individuals in conflict-related environments is alarming. Those vulnerable to insecurity and violence because of their sexual orientation or gender identity remain largely neglected by the international peace and security community. This neglect is in part the result of heteronormative assumptions in the framing of the WPS agenda. The goal of this article is not only to point out this silence but also to propose ways in which a queer security analysis can address and redress these silences in policy through paying attention to the damaging role heteronorma-tivity and cisprivilege play in sustaining the current gap in analysis of gendered violence. 3 A queer theory analysis reveals a wide spectrum of identities that do not fit neatly into a binary conception of gender restricted to exclusive categories of male/female or man/woman. This article reviews the policy implications of excluding sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against LGBTQ individuals from policy implementation and NGO monitoring of the WPS agenda. Because LGBTQ individuals are under constant threat in many places, viewing the shifts in insecurity for this population in conflict-related environments through a gender lens offers a significant contribution to how policy-makers understand human security more broadly. Understanding what drives violence against individuals marginalized for their sexual orientation and gender identity will also shed light on the larger question of how SGBV operates in conflict

Journal of Gender Studies, 2022

The gendered effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have been documented globally by feminist researche... more The gendered effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have been documented globally by feminist researchers and activists. However, less explored are the strategies employed by feminist activists to navigate such challenges. Mobilizing feminist scholarship on the politics of crisis and the study of feminist movements, this article presents findings from a collaborative research project that sought to understand how the crisis engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting on feminist activism in Northern Ireland (NI) post-Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. Drawing on focus groups with local activists, we outline how the effects of the pandemic compound the long history of marginalization and de-prioritization of gender equality and justice seen throughout the peace process and its multiple crises. We trace how the activists who participated to this study have continued to organize collectively through online networks, gender-sensitive policy recommendations, proposals for a comprehensive recovery plan, as well as through mutual aid practices that have a long lineage in feminist activism amidst the conflict and in NI’s unfinished peace. The context of NI offers a valuable case study to trouble the temporalities and boundaries of global crises, deepening our understanding of feminist strategies for collective organizing in complex political terrains.

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies, 2021

Feminist scholars have long touted the necessity of employing a gender lens to better understand ... more Feminist scholars have long touted the necessity
of employing a gender lens to better understand
power and violence in global politics. Sexuality is
an important dimension of these gendered power
dynamics. LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,
and queer) perspectives in peacebuilding
unsettle the assumptions about what is the “correct”
or “normal” sexual orientation, gender identity,
or family structure. Drawing on a multiplicity
of LGBTQ voices to inform post-conflict
responses allows for a more expansive approach
to understanding what gendered insecurities look
like and how best to respond to them. Centering
LGBTQ communities in responses to conflictrelated
violence is also important when working
to develop peacebuilding processes that move
beyond the heteronormative patriarchal power
dynamics that have historically resulted in violent
conflict. LGBTQ perspectives in peacebuilding
introduce voices generally marginalized or left
out entirely.

Critical Studies on Security, 2021

In this article, we address hierarchies of knowledge production that have emerged in the two deca... more In this article, we address hierarchies of knowledge production that have emerged in the two decades of researching the global normative framework, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. We argue that through the constitution of Centres of Excellence (CoE), the well-meaning processes of producing WPS knowledge can reify prevailing global racial hierarchies. We find that these processes rather than achieving emancipatory feminist outcomes can instead serve to narrow the scope of inquiry, pushing marginalised peoples further to the margins.

North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) , 2019

The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) and Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Tr... more The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) and Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) hold serious consequences for Latinx queer and trans sex workers, especially those who are undocumented or seeking asylum. These new laws exemplify how racist, sexist, and moralistic legislation uninformed by those most impacted misunderstands both sex work and human trafficking. Mobilizing for change, sex workers of color offer a way to rethink what safety in their communities looks like
by centering solutions based on their own experiences.

Book Chapters by Jamie J . Hagen

This chapter takes a queer feminist approach to integrating LGBTQ women’s voices in the WPS agend... more This chapter takes a queer feminist approach to integrating LGBTQ women’s voices in the WPS agenda. I show how a workshop organized using a queer feminist methodology can bring together individuals often excluded from discussions about queer conflict research. I then explain why a queer feminist workshop presents a valuable methodology for coalition building, Queer Conflict Research highlighting the findings from a workshop of this kind in Bogotá, Colombia. The insights from this workshop show not only how this method can be effective, but also how this approach can create space for LBTQ women to inform next steps for implementing a more expansive gender perspective across all four pillars (participation, prevention, protection and relief and recovery) of the WPS agenda.

New Directions in Women, Peace and Security, 2020

We locate our reflections about the practices of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in co... more We locate our reflections about the practices of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in contemporary scholarship about race and racism in global politics. Our contribution reflects on how whiteness and white privilege are refracted in the narratives and practices of the WPS agenda through a focus on National Action Plans (NAPs). We consider who the WPS agenda is about, and who it is for, on the international stage. A central part of this investigation is interrogating whether certain NAPs are truly able to localize the international project of WPS or whether, because of global racial hierarchies, they actually simply reinforce the status quo. If the latter, NAPs-particularly those originating in the global North-can then be seen to perpetuate an image wherein the peaceful North (which nevertheless employs and relies on militarism for its practices of peace and security) is obliged to 'rescue' the insecure global South. Further, we examine the imagery used by different countries within their NAPs and the implications for WPS messaging by countries in the global North. We explore the ways in which these NAPs consider violent conflicts and gendered violence in the global South against responses to similar concerns within the borders of originating countries. We contend that the WPS agenda despite its potential for emancipation, and given its framing as a universal/global normative framework, is steeped in racialized hierarchies manifested in whiteness. George Yancy (2004, pp 7-8) writes that New Directions in Women, Peace and Securit.

Sexualities, 2019

This chapter introduces the main scholarship pertaining to sexuality as it relates to gender, wit... more This chapter introduces the main scholarship pertaining to sexuality as it relates to gender, with a focus on how this intersection matters for better understanding violence targeting LGBTQ individuals. Specifically, the chapter will examine how homophobia is used as a means of upholding heteronormativity on the institutional level. The chapter will consider how upholding norms based on binary constructions of masculinity and femininity perpetuates forms of violence, especially for queer and trans individuals who are deemed to being failing to perform these aspects of their identity appropriately who are then punished through acts of violence. Additionally the chapter reviews four key debates about sexuality: 1) the ongoing tension between sexual rights as a liberal politics versus a more radical conception of queer liberation that is not reliant on identity politics; 2) the inclusion of trans studies within sexuality studies; 3) the challenges of interpreting or working to protect sexualities in postcolonial contexts; and 4) how queer, trans and feminist interventions in global studies cause us to rework key tenets of how gender matters to understanding violence.

Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research, 2021

Troubling Motherhood: Maternality in Global Politics, 2019

This chapter highlights the different ways mothers engage in storytelling to resist stigma, while... more This chapter highlights the different ways mothers engage in storytelling to resist stigma, while also rejecting the idea that they are “bad” mothers. The prevailing story told about what makes a “good” mother relies on the construction of an ideal mother parenting within a specific vision of the nuclear family. Mothers who do not live up to this ideal construction of motherhood are punished through various forms of stigma such as sexual stigma and abortion stigma. This chapter considers the impact of stigma on two groups of women, lesbian mothers and mothers who have had abortions. Mothers from both communities who have faced stigma are finding ways to rewrite the script about how to mother without shame. Some of the forms of resistance these mothers have engaged in includes abortion speak outs, online storytelling through blogs and videos and storytelling through art. The chapter also explores how community-based initiatives informed by the principles of reproductive justice also make possible new narratives of maternity and new visions for a future for mothering without stigma.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights, 2018

This chapter addresses human rights debates about global LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgend... more This chapter addresses human rights debates about global LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) politics. Considering this topic may be new to some students, this section will begin with an overview of key terms including LGBTQ, queer, intersex, sexual orientation, and finally gender identity before then going into specific issues of LGBTQ human rights. To broadly frame this topic, attention is paid to the bridge between feminist and queer organizing for LGBTQ issues. Because this book is intended for students in American universities the section will include a brief review of which issues of LGBTQ politics have been prioritized in domestic politics including the Obergefell V. Hodges case for marriage equality as well as the fight for inclusion of LGBT individuals in the American military. The chapter reviews mobilizing for LGBTQ issues through the lens of large global civil society organizations including Outright International and ILGA as compared to a number of small organizations in the global South. The role of human rights as contained in UN documents on the global scale verses human rights concerns as articulated by local organizations is then compared. The chapter concludes with a look at the critical pushback on the human rights paradigm as a way to achieve security and equality for LGBTQ individuals due the colonial legacy of the institution as expressed by some transnational feminists.

Gender, Sex, and Politics In the Streets and Between the Sheets in the 21st Century, 2015

This book chapter reviews ways that online queer and trans communities provide a space to connect... more This book chapter reviews ways that online queer and trans communities provide a space to connect in new and exciting ways not previously available to most. The chapter highlights the lesbian, feminist website Autostraddle as well as queer sex and fashion blogs such as DapperQ, The Handsome Butch Tumblr and The Testshot Tumblr.

Policy by Jamie J . Hagen

This toolkit provides a guide for how to queer Women, Peace and Security in practice through thre... more This toolkit provides a guide for how to queer Women, Peace and Security in practice through three main sections: 1) Queering the four pillars of WPS, 2) Feminist and LGBTQ collaborations, and 3) Queering WPS National Action Plans.

The toolkit was developed in partnership with Colombia Diversa drawing on their work in the Colombian peace process, supporting LGBTQ individuals through transformative justice practices, and engaging in the drafting of the country’s first WPS National Action Plan in 2023.

The World Today

The historic 2016 peace deal in Colombia between Farc, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia... more The historic 2016 peace deal in Colombia between Farc, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, and the government ended 52 years of armed conflict, the longest in the Americas. Notably the accord included LGBTQ people in a formal peace process for the first time ever. It has shifted global understanding of what an inclusive peace process means. Focusing on the experiences and needs of sexual and gender minorities raises important questions about what issues should be prioritized when applying a gender perspective to peace and security work. Colombia could now be within reach of producing a women, peace and security national action plan for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, which protects women's rights during and after conflict.

British Educational Research Journal, 2022

Human Rights Quarterly, 2023

Revista de Estudios Sociales , Jan 1, 2023

Peace Review, 2022

European Journal of Politics and Gender, 2022

Journal of Gender Studies, 2022

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies, 2021

Critical Studies on Security, 2021

North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) , 2019

New Directions in Women, Peace and Security, 2020

Sexualities, 2019

Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research, 2021

Troubling Motherhood: Maternality in Global Politics, 2019

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights, 2018

Gender, Sex, and Politics In the Streets and Between the Sheets in the 21st Century, 2015

The World Today

Foreign Policy, 2023

Piece considers the role of the UN, and specifically the Security Council, for protecting queer r... more Piece considers the role of the UN, and specifically the Security Council, for protecting queer rights

In June of 2021 the United Nation’s Independent Expert (IE) on protection against violence and di... more In June of 2021 the United Nation’s Independent Expert (IE) on
protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual
orientation and gender identity published a report about thematic
work on gender theory as it relates to the IE’s mandate. This policy
brief answers some of the key questions raised by the IE’s gender
theory research, with a focus on LGBTQ people’s experiences living in
conflict.

LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security Working Paper Series, 2016

United Nations Security Resolution 1325 was the first resolution to draw attention to women and g... more United Nations Security Resolution 1325 was the first resolution to draw attention to women and girls during conflict, as well as the first to consider gendered experiences of war. Yet those vulnerable to insecurity and violence because of their sexual orientation or gender identity remain largely neglected by the international peace and security community. While much has been accomplished by WPS projects, there is an alarming lack of attention to how homophobic and transphobic violence targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) individuals occurs in conflict-related environments.

Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 2020

Book Review. About the book: This book argues that homophobia plays a fundamental role in dispu... more Book Review.

About the book: This book argues that homophobia plays a fundamental role in disputes for hegemony between antagonists during political transitions. Examining countries not often connected in the same research—Colombia and South Africa—the book asserts that homophobia, as a form of gender and sexual violence, contributes to the transformation of gender and sexual orders required by warfare and deployed by armed groups. Anti-homosexual violence also reinforces the creation of consensus around these projects of change. The book considers the perspective of individuals and their organizations, for whom such hatreds are part of the embodied experience of violence caused by protracted conflicts and social inequalities. Resistance to that violence are reason to mobilize and become political actors. This book contributes to the increasing interest in South-South comparative analyses and the need of theory building based on case-study analyses, offering systematic research useful for grass root organizations, practitioners, and policy makers.

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2019

Washington Post, 2021

Pride month has wrapped up around the world. In some places, LGBTQ folks celebrated their identit... more Pride month has wrapped up around the world. In some places, LGBTQ folks celebrated their identities in parades and other community events. Elsewhere, queer activists took to the streets in very different ways.

The case of Amanda Mellet, who had to leave Ireland to get an abortion due to a fatal fetal condi... more The case of Amanda Mellet, who had to leave Ireland to get an abortion due to a fatal fetal condition, has created a roadmap for advocates to call out the prohibition and criminalization of abortion in countries as a violation of human rights.

Until we monitor for violence driven by homophobia and transphobia, we can’t know for sure what v... more Until we monitor for violence driven by homophobia and transphobia, we can’t know for sure what violence we are missing. Figuring that out requires actually seeking out and amplifying LGBT voices to more fully embrace the power of peace whether during the fighting, or when it ultimately ends.

The international human rights and global health communities gathered with policy-makers and gove... more The international human rights and global health communities gathered with policy-makers and government leaders last month in Washington D.C. to make the case for universal abortion access. This unheralded collaboration arrives on the heels of another first: a report from the UN Secretary-general calling for access to safe abortion.

Human trafficking is a travesty that many consider a problem of the past, or at least one limited... more Human trafficking is a travesty that many consider a problem of the past, or at least one limited to outside the United States. Unfortunately, in today's globalized society, the problems of human trafficking are embedded in aspects of Americans' daily lives in ways that many may not be aware of – taking on new forms and presenting new challenges for human-rights defenders worldwide.

the sexual and reproductive rights of women and girls in crisis settings is essential and a matte... more the sexual and reproductive rights of women and girls in crisis settings is essential and a matter of human rights, but it is also complicated and unsustainable without a change in the way humanitarian assistance is provided and funded, " states a recently published report from the UN Population Fund.

International Studies Review

Research on armed conflict's gender dynamics has expanded significantly in the past decade. H... more Research on armed conflict's gender dynamics has expanded significantly in the past decade. However, research in this field pays little attention to sexual orientation and gender identity. Moreover, where scholarship focused on violence against sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals during war exists, it is largely divorced from work on gender-based violence (GBV) in conflict-related environments and from sexuality studies. In this article, we integrate these bodies of work and argue for the theoretical expansion of GBV as a conceptual, empirical, and analytic category to study and explain targeted attacks against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and otherwise queer individuals. We suggest two theoretical interventions to better equip existing GBV frameworks to explain violence perpetrated against SGM people. We argue, first, that violence targeting SGM communities is GBV, as sexuality and gender identity are integral components of gender, and second, that analyzing ge...

International Affairs, 2016

International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2021