Academic Staff - G Waylen

Professor Georgina Waylen, BA (Manchester), MA (Manchester), PhD (CNAA)

Professor

Telephone: +44 (0)114 222 1668
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 1717
Room: 1.31 Elmfield
Feedback & Consultation hours: Wednesday 1600 - 1700 and Thursday 1200 - 1300

email : G.Waylen@sheffield.ac.uk

Profile

Georgina Waylen joined the department in 1994 having held appointments previously at the Universities of Salford and East Anglia. She studied Politics and Economics followed by an MA in Political Development at the University of Manchester. Her PhD was a study of the political economy of colonialism in Jamaica. She has since carried out extensive research in Latin America as well as South Africa. In 1995-6 she was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Latin American Studies at Stanford University, California; in 2003 she was a visiting fellow in the Department of Political Studies, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa; and in 2005 she was visiting fellow at the Centre for Global Political Economy, Simon Fraser University, Canada. She has been on the editorial board of the APSA journal Politics and Gender since its establishment in 2003 and became one of its co-editors in July 2007. She is also a founder member and co-director of the Feminism and Institutionalism International Network (FEMFIIN) together with colleagues from the Universities of Edinburgh, Sydney and Washington, St Louis. Georgina Waylen is also co-convenor (with Dr Victoria Robinson, Sociological Studies) of the Social Science Gender Research Network at the University of Sheffield.

In recent years she has engaged in extensive research on various aspects of gender and transitions to democracy. Beginning with British Academy-funded research on the transition in Chile in the early 1990s, she continued with an ESRC-funded comparative research project on 'Gender and Simultaneous Economic and Political Liberalization', [R000221334] which examined both political and economic transitions in Chile, Argentina and Peru. This research has been extended by a subsequent ESRC-funded grant which has broadened the focus to look at 'Gender and Political Transitions: South African in Comparative Context' [R000220259]. These projects have generated numerous articles and a book, Engendering Transitions (Oxford University Press 2007), which was co-recipient of the American Political Science Association (APSA) Victoria Schuck Award for the best book published in women and politics in 2007.

Her main research interests are in the fields of political economy/comparative politics, with a focus on gender and politics, international political economy, transitions to democracy, governance and globalization.

Teaching

Pol 214 Comparing Political Change: from Dictatorship to Democracy

Pol 336 Women and Politics

Pol 6900 Gender and Globalization

Current Research

Georgina Waylen´s current research includes:

Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament. Together with Prof Shirin Rai (Warwick), Prof Joni Lovenduski (Birkbeck) and Dr Sarah Childs (Bristol), since October 2007 Georgina Waylen has been conducting research as part of a Leverhulme Programme of the same name. Her research is focusing on two themes: integrating ceremony and ritual into institutional theory; and investigating the role of space and symbols in building new democracies.

Feminist Institutionalism, She working on developing a feminist historical institutionalism (as part of the newly created Feminist International Institutionalist Network (FIIN).

Gender and Post conflict Institution Building. This a comparative study of Bosnia, South Africa, Northern Ireland and El Salvador focusing on how post conflict institutions are gendered and the impact that women actors can have on the institutional outcomes in different contexts.

Key Publications(selected)

Books

  • Global Governance: Feminist Analyses, co-edited with Shirin Rai, Palgrave, forthcoming 2008
  • Engendering Transitions: Women’s Mobilization, Institutions and Gender Outcomes, Oxford University Press, 2007
  • Towards a Gendered Political Economy, co-edited with Joanne Cook and Jennifer Roberts, Macmillan 2000
  • Gender, Politics and the State, co-edited with Vicky Randall, Routledge 1998
  • Gender in Third World Politics (Lynne Rienner/Open University Press 1996)

Journal Articles

  • 2008 – Women’s Substantive Representation: Lessons from Transitions to Democracy’ Parliamentary Affairs, 61, 3:518-534.
  • 2007 - Women’s Mobilization and Gender Outcomes in Transitions to Democracy: the South African Case’, Comparative Political Studies. 2007, 40, 5, May.
  • 2006 - Gender and Constitutional Engineering: What Prospects for the enhancement of Gender Rights, Third World Quarterly, 2006, 27, 7: 1209-22.
  • 2006 - ”You still don’t understand” Why Troubled Engagements Continue between Feminists and (critical) IPE’, Review of International Studies, 2006 32, 1: 145-164.
  • 2004 - 'Putting Governance into the Gendered Political Economy of Globalization', International Feminist Journal of Politics, 6, 4
  • 2003 - 'Gender and Transitions: What do we Know?', Democratization (2003) 10, 3, March
  • 2000 - 'Gender and Democratic Politics: A Comparative Analysis of Consolidation in Argentina and Chile', Journal of Latin American Studies, 32, 3, 765-793
  • 1999 'IPE, Development and Gender', in special issue of Journal of International Relations and Development, 2, 4, 435-46
  • 1998 - 'Gender and Governance: Democratic Consolidation and Economic Reform', Journal of International Development, 10: 7, November
  • 1998 - 'Introduction' to Special Section on 'Towards a Gendered Political Economy', New Political Economy, 3, 2: 181-9
  • 1997 - 'Gender, Feminism and Political Economy', New Political Economy, 2, 2: 205-220
  • 1995 - 'Women's Movements, the State and Democratisation in Chile', IDS Bulletin, 26, 3: 86-93
  • 1994 - 'Women and Democratisation: Conceptualising Gender Relations in Transition Politics', World Politics, April, 46, 3: 327-54
  • 1993 - 'Women's Movements and Democratisation in Latin America', Special issue on Democratisation in the Third World, Third World Quarterly, 14, 3: 573-88
  • 1992 - 'Rethinking Women's Political Participation and Protest: Chile 1970-1990', Political Studies, 40, 2:299-315

Book Chapters

  • ‘Transforming Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities’, in Shirin Rai and Georgina Waylen (eds) Global Governance: Feminist Perspectives. Palgrave, forthcoming 2008.
  • 'Feminist Perspectives on Global Governance' in Shirin Rai and Georgina Waylen (eds) Global Governance: Feminist Perspectives, Palgrave, forthcoming 2008.
  • Governance’ in Gary Goertz and Amy Mazur (eds) Gendering Political Concepts, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2008.
  • 2001 - 'Women and Democratization: Conceptualizing Gender Relations in Transition Politics', in S White and D Nelson (eds), The Politics of the Postcommunist World, Vol 2, Ashgate, pp 185-212
  • 2000 - 'Le Gendre, le feminisme et l'etat: un survol', in T Ballmer-Cao, V Mottier and L Shier (eds), Genre et Politique: debats et perspectives, Editions Gallimard, pp 203-232
  • 2000 - 'Gender and Political Economy' in J Cook, J Roberts and G Waylen (eds), Towards a Gendered Political Economy, Macmillan, pp 14-38
  • 1999 - 'Frauen, Demokratisientung und Demokratische Konsoliderung: Eine- FeministischeAnalyse' in Halbierte Demokratie Velweit? Feministische Perspektiven auf Transitions und Demockratisierungsprzesse, G Abels and S Sifft (eds), Campus Verlag, Hamburg pp 37-63
  • 1998 - 'Gender, Feminism and the State: An Overview', in V Randall and G Waylen (eds), Gender, Politics and the State, Routledge, pp 1-17
  • 1998 - 'Women's Activism, Authoritarianism and Democratisation in Chile', in N Charles and H Hintjens (eds), Gender, Ethnicity and Political Ideologies, Routledge, pp 146-167
  • 1997 - 'Women's Movements, the State and Democratisation in Chile: the Establishment of SERNAM' in A M Goetz (ed), Getting Institutions Rights for Women in Development, Zed Press, pp 90-104
  • 1996 - 'Democratisation, Feminism and the State in Chile: the Establishment of SERNAM', in S Rai and G Lievesley (eds), Women and the State: International Perspectives, Taylor and Francis, pp 103-118
  • 1996 - 'Analysing Women in the Politics of the Third World' in H Afshar (ed), Women and Politics in the Third World, Routledge, pp 7-24
  • 1992 - 'Women, Authoritarianism and Market Liberalisation in Chile', in H Afshar and C Dennis (eds), Women and Adjustment Policies in the Third World, Macmillan, pp 150-178
  • 1986 - 'Women and Neo-Liberalism' in J Evans et al, Feminism and Political Theory, Sage, pp 85-103

PhD Supervision

Georgina Waylen welcomes good research students with interests in gender and politics including women´s representation, transitions to democracy, international political economy, globalization and development.

Areas of current and past supervision include:

  • Ceremony, Ritual and Deliberation in the South African Parliament, due for completion Sept 2010
  • Feminism, nationalism and war in the former Yugoslavia Due for completion Sept 2009
  • Women's movements and state feminism in Brazil. Due for completion Sept 2008
  • 'Globalization and women's work in Japan' Completed January 2003.
  • 'Gender and Citizenship in Europe' Completed June 2002.
  • 'Trades Unions and the transition to democracy in the Czech Republic' Completed December 2001.
global governance
Engendering Transitions
Towards a Gendered Political Economy
Gender, Politics and The State
Gender in Third World Politics
See also