Intersectionality and International Relations

Session Submission Type: In-Person Full Paper Panel

Session Description

The value and importance of understanding how categorical differences affect experiences has been one of the significant contributions of intersectionality scholarship. However, much of this scholarship has focused on domestic politics. The aim of this panel is to apply an intersectional analytic lens to questions of international relations, expanding and growing the field of study. Considering the transnational and/or global nature of the salient categories of gender, race, ethnicity, and religion, our papers reveal how an intersectional analysis can help answer critical questions of international relations, deepening and improving our prior understandings of the production of feminist IR knowledge, foreign policy analysis, security studies, and transnational social movements.

Sub Unit

• Division 31: Women, Gender, and Politics Research

Individual Presentations

• Intersectionality and Feminist International Relations - Celeste M. Montoya, University of Colorado, Boulder

• Advancing Security and Identity: From Difference to Categories of Threat (CoT) - Nola Haynes, University of Southern California

• An Intersectional Analysis of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, 1979-2020 - Sara Angevine, Whittier College

• Intersectionality and the International Dimensions of Social Reproduction - S. Laurel Weldon, Simon Fraser University; srijani datta, Simon Fraser University; Amber N Lusvardi, Purdue University; Kaitlin Kelly-Thompson, Tufts University; Summer Forester, Carleton College

Chair

• Natasha Behl Arizona State University

Discussant

• Adryan Wallace Stony Brook University