Dr Penny Griffin

Research Summary

Penny's research is located primarily in the areas of international (global) political economy (IPE), international relations (IR), global governance and feminism(s), gender and sexuality studies. Her work explores the processes, practices and effects of the contemporary global political economy with a view to understanding how these shape and are shaped by identity politics.

Research Areas:
* Political economy
* Gender/sexualities/feminism(s) and international relations
* Global governance

UNSW Research Profile

Teaching

Semester 1
ARTS3812 (Theorising International Political Economy)
Semester 2
ARTS2812 (The Politics of International Organisation)
POLS5121 (International Organisations and Global Politics)

Postgraduate Research Supervision
* International relations, international political economy.
* International relations, International Pd. Economy

Publications

Books
(2009), Gendering the World Bank: Neoliberalism and the Gendered Foundations of Global Governance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan hyperlink

Awards and Prizes
British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group (IPEG) Book Prize, 2010 hyperlink for Gendering the World Bank (2009).

Journal Special Issues
Special Issue of Men and Masculinities on ‘Men, Masculinity and Responsibility’, forthcoming 2012. Co-edited with Prof. Marysia Zalewski (University of Aberdeen) and Prof. Jane Parpart (Dalhousie University). Includes co-authored introduction.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
(2011), 'The World Bank, HIV/AIDS and Sex in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Gendered Analysis of Neoliberal Governance'. Globalizations, 8(2), pp.229-248.

(2010), ‘Gender, Governance and the Global Political Economy’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 64(1), pp.86-104.

(2007), ‘Sexing the Economy in a Neoliberal World Order: Neoliberal Discourse and the (Re)Production of (Heteronormative) Heterosexuality’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 9(2), pp.220-238.

(2007), ‘Refashioning IPE: What and How Gender Analysis Teaches International Political Economy’, Review of International Political Economy, 14(4), pp.719-736.

(2007), ‘Neoliberalism and the World Bank: Economic Discourse and the (Re)Production of Gendered Identity(ies)’, Policy Futures in Education, 5(2), pp.226-238.

(2006), ‘The World Bank’, New Political Economy, 11(4), December, pp.571-581.

Book Chapters
(forthcoming), ‘Deconstruction as “Anti-Method’’’, in Shepherd, L. J. (ed.), Critical Approaches to Security: An Introduction to Theories and Methods. London and New York: Routledge.

(2011), ‘Sexuality and Global Social Justice’, in Smith, N. and Widdows, H. (eds), Global Social Justice. London and New York: Routledge.

(2011), ‘Poststructuralism in/and IPE’, in Bruff, I., Macartney, H and Shields, S. (eds), Critical International Political Economy: Dialogue, Debate and Dissensus. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.43-58.

(2011), ‘Queer Theories of Power’, Encyclopedia of Power. London: Sage hyperlink

(2011), ‘The Role of Power in Hetereosexism’, Encyclopedia of Power. London: Sage hyperlink

(2010), ‘The Gendered Global Political Economy’, Denemark, R. A. (ed.), The International Studies Association Compendium. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp.2631-2650 hyperlink

(2009), ‘Neoliberal Globalisation and Development Institutions’, Shepherd, L. J. (ed.), Gender Matters in Global Politics. London and New York: Routledge, pp.218-233 hyperlink

(2009), ‘The Spaces Between Us: The Gendered Politics of Outer Space’, in Bormann, N. and Sheehan, M. (eds), Securing Outer Space. London and New York: Routledge, pp.59-75.

Peer Reviewed Essays
(2009), ‘(The Lack of) Gender in Economic Analysis: A Review of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, The Mystery of Economic Growth and The Imagined Economies of Globalization’, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 11(1).

Reviews
(2008), Review of Globalization, Development and Human Security and The Globalization and Development Reader, Development and Change, 39(3), pp.699-701.

(2008), Review of (En)Gendering the War on Terror: War Stories and Camouflaged Politics, Capital and Class, 94, pp.142-145.

Working Papers
(2005), ‘Neoliberal Economic Discourses and Hegemonic Masculinity(ies): Masculine Hegemony (Dis)Embodied’, IPEG Papers in Global Political Economy, Working Paper No.19 hyperlink

Current Projects
(forthcoming), The Death of Feminism? Is Popular Culture Undermining Feminism in Western Societies? London and New York: Routledge.
(forthcoming), Gender and the Global Financial Crisis. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Conference Presentations
April 2012, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA.
December 2011, 'Theorising Crisis: Feminist Perspectives', UNSW.
Sept 2011, Inaugural ISA Asia-Pacific Regional Section Conference, University of Queensland.
July 2011, IPSA Research Committee on Political Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney.
June 2011, 10th METU Conference on International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara (Turkey).
July 2010, OCIS, University of Auckland (NZ).
July 2009, 'Popular Culture and World Politics' Conference, University of Bristol (UK).
July 2009, 'Aesthetics and International Relations: Exploring the Frontiers of Visual and Cultural Politics' Conference, University of Birmingham (UK).
June 2009, BISA International Political Economy Group (IPEG) Annual Workshop, University of York (UK).
April 2009, Australian IPE workshop, ANU, Canberra.
July 2008, OCIS, University of Queensland, Brisbane.
Oct 2007, 'The Sociological Turn in IPE', Australian IPE Workshop, University of Adelaide.

Affiliations and Memberships

APSA (Aus); APSA (US); BISA (UK); ISA (US); Women in Research Network (UNSW).

Contributions

‘Soldiers of Peace’ (Dir. Tim Wise. Produced by One Tree Films, Australia). hyperlink

Personal Links

Oceanic Conference of International Studies (OCIS) 2012 Sydney, hyperlink;
Palgrave Macmillan, Gendering the World Bank, hyperlink;
BISA Gendering IR Working Group hyperlink;
BISA International Political Economy Group (IPEG) hyperlink;
SSIS 'News & Events', hyperlink;
SSIS ‘Referencing, Citations and Assignment Writing Guide for Politics and International Relations’, available at hyperlink (PDF).