Christie Nicoson, PhD
peace research – climate action – feminist praxis
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland
I am a researcher in peace and conflict studies and political science, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at University College Dublin. My interdisciplinary work examines gendered experiences and structures of peace and violence. I use constructivist interpretivist feminist theory and methods to explore connections of peace and violence with coercive control, climate change, and food sovereignty and security.
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Imagining peace & enacting utopias in Puerto Rico, open-access in Peacebuilding
Local groups in Puerto Rico are often described as being at the forefront of climate transformation. This article explores active struggles towards alternate futures, using a critical concept of utopia in a phenomenological study alongside women at a community organisation in Culebra, Puerto Rico. I use feminist ethics of care as a theory of knowledge to study how cognitive, embodied, and affective visions influence struggles towards utopian futures. Read more…
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