Dr Swati Parashar

BA (Honours) History (Delhi University, India); MA Politics and International Relations (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India); PhD Politics and International Relations (Lancaster University, UK.)

Email:  sparasha@uow.edu.au
Telephone:  (+61 2) 4221 3667
Location:  19:2038

I have previously worked as lecturer at the Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick, Ireland. I have also worked in policy think tanks as research analyst on terrorism and political violence issues at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi and the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore.

Research interests/Areas of expertise:

Terrorism, War and Security Studies
Feminist International Relations
Women, Gender and Political Violence
Religion, Conflict and Development in South Asia / India

Publications

Books

1. Editor, Maritime Counter Terrorism : A Pan Asian Perspective, Pearson Longman, Delhi, 2007
2. Co-editor (with Wilson John) Terrorism in South East Asia-Implications for South Asia, Pearson Education, Delhi, 2005

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

1. Feminist IR and Women Militants: Case Studies from South Asia” in Cambridge Review of International Affairs, June 2009 pp 235 – 256
2. “Gender, Jihad, and Jingoism: Women as Perpetrators, Planners, and Patrons of Militancy in Kashmir” (2011) Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 34: 4, 295 — 317
3. “Embodied ‘Otherness’ and Negotiations of Difference: A Critical Self Reflection on the Politics of Emotions in Researching Militant Women” in International Studies Review (December 2011, forthcoming)
4. “The Sacred and the Sacrilegious: Exploring women’s ‘politics’ and ‘agency’ in radical religious movements in South Asia” (2010) Totalitarian Movements and Political Religios, 11:3, 435 - 455

Book Chapters

1. “Women Militants as Gendered Political Subjects” in Annika Kronsell and Erika Svedberg edited, Making Gender, Making War, Routledge, 2011
2. “Aatish-e-Chinar: In Kashmir where women keep the resistance alive” in Women and 21st Century Terrorism (eds.), Laura Sjoberg and Caron Gentry, Georgia University Press, US, 2011
3. With Christine Sylvester, “The Contemporary Mahabharata and the Many Draupadis: Bringing Gender to Critical Terrorism Studies,” in Critical Terrorism Studies, edited by Richard Jackson and Marie Breen Smyth, Routledge, 2009, pp 178-193
4. “The Good, Bad or the Ugly? Women militants in religio-political and secular nationalist movements,” Gender and International Security: Feminist perspectives edited by Laura Sjoberg, Routledge, 2009 pp 168-188

Book Reviews

1. Book Review of “Gender Matters in Global Politics” by Laura Shepherd, in the journal Gender and Development (Nov. 2010)
2. Book Review of “Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity and the Rise and Fall of the A. Q. Khan Network” by Gordon Corera, in the Journal Roundtable (April 2008).
3. Book Review of “From Where We Stand” by Cynthia Cockburn in Feminist Theory, (August 2009).

Research Students

Tshering Yangden (co-supervised with Michael Flood)

Recent Awards and Fellowships

• Workshop grant on Gender and Peace Research at the ISA annual convention in Montreal, March 2011
• Faculty Research Grant, University of Limerick, Ireland. March 2010
• Fulbright Fellow at the Winter Institute on US National Security and Foreign Policy: Post 9/11 at the University of California, San Diego, 2006

Professional Membership

• International Studies Association (ISA), University of Arizona, US.
• International Counter Terrorism Academic Community (ICTAC), IDC, Herzliya, Israel
• Development Studies Association of UK and Ireland