Dr Penny Griffin

Penny is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW Sydney. She works specifically in the areas of international relations, international political economy, global governance, the politics of development, gender/feminist studies and the politics of visual and popular culture. Her current research looks at economic governance and the 'post-crisis' period from a gender perspective. She has published with Routledge (Popular Culture, Political Economy and the Death of Feminism: Why Women are in Refrigerators and Other Stories), Palgrave Macmillan (Gendering the World Bank, 2009, winner of the BISA International Political Economy Group book prize 2010) and in the journals Feminist Review, Men and Masculinities, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Globalizations, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, New Political Economy and Review of International Political Economy.

Penny holds a Ph.D. in Politics and International Relations from the University of Bristol (UK), a MSc. in Social Science Research Methods, a MSc. in International Relations and a BA.Hons in French and Politics (first class). 

Research Areas

• International political economy (IPE).

• International relations (IR).

• Gender, feminism and sexuality(ies) in IR and IPE.

• Global governance and the role and function of international organisations.

Books

• Griffin P, 2015, POPULAR CULTURE, POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE DEATH OF FEMINISM Why women are in refrigerators and other stories PREFACE, Popular Culture and World Politics, ROUTLEDGE, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000383754200002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a
• Griffin P, 2009, Gendering the World Bank: Neoliberalism and the gendered foundations of global governance, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230233881

Book Chapters

• Griffin P, 2018, 'Gender, IPE and poststructuralism: Problematizing the material/discursive divide', in Handbook on the International Political Economy of Gender, pp. 86 - 101, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781783478842.00012
• Griffin P, 2017, 'Masculinities and financial capitalism', in Masculinities and Literary Studies: Intersections and New Directions, pp. 155 - 167, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315230733
• Griffin PS, 2016, 'Gender, Finance and Embodiments of Crisis', in Scandalous Economics Gender and the Politics of Financial Crises, Oxford University Press, pp. 179 - 201, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/scandalous-economics-9780190204242?q=scandalous%20economics&lang=en&cc=au
• Griffin PS, 2014, 'Development Institutions and Neoliberal Globalisation', in Shepherd LJ (ed.), Gender Matters in Global Politics, edn. 2nd, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 210 - 233, https://www.routledge.com/Gender-Matters-in-Global-Politics-A-Feminist-Introduction-to-International/Shepherd/p/book/9780415715218
• Griffin P, 2013, 'Sexuality, power and global social justice', in Global Social Justice, pp. 138 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203816974
• Griffin P, 2013, 'Deconstruction as 'anti-method'', in Critical Approaches to Security: An Introduction To Theories and Methods, pp. 208 - 222, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203076873
• Griffin P, 2011, 'Poststructuralism in/and IPE', in Shields S; Bruff I; Macartney H (ed.), CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: DIALOGUE, DEBATE AND DISSENSUS, edn. International Political Economy Series, PALGRAVE, pp. 43 - 58, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000291797300004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a
• Griffin P, 2011, 'Queer Theories of Power', in Dowding K (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, edn. 1st, Sage, London, http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book228360
• Griffin P, 2011, '‘The Role of Power in Hetereosexism’', in Dowding K (ed.), Encyclopedia of Power, edn. 1st, Sage, London, http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book228360
• Griffin P, 2010, 'Gender and the Global Political Economy', in Denemark R; Farrell T (ed.), The International Studies Encyclopedia, edn. 1st, Wiley Blackwell, Malden, MA., pp. 2631 - 2650, http://www.isacompendium.com/subscriber/uid=947/tocnode?query=Gender+and+the+global+political+economy&widen=1&result_number=1&from=search&id=g9781444336597_chunk_g97814443365979_ss1-3&type=std&fuzzy=0
• Griffin P, 2010, 'Development Institutions and Neoliberal Globalisation', in Shepherd LJ (ed.), Gender Matters in Global Politics, edn. 1st, Routledge, London/New York, pp. 218 - 233
• Griffin P, 2009, 'The spaces between us: The gendered politics of outer space', in Securing Outer Space, pp. 59 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203882023

Journal articles

• Griffin P, 2017, 'Financial governance ‘after’ crisis: On the liminality of the global financial crisis and its ‘afterwards’, through a gender lens', Politics, vol. 37, pp. 402 - 417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263395717720932
• Griffin P, 2017, '‘Post’ interventions: Postcoloniality, poststructuralism and questions of ‘after’ in world politics', Politics, vol. 37, pp. 367 - 370, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263395717722135
• Griffin P, 2015, 'Crisis, austerity and gendered governance: A feminist perspective', Feminist Review, vol. 109, pp. 49 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.2014.44
• Griffin P;Parpart JL;Zalewski M, 2013, 'Men, Masculinity, and Responsibility', Men and Masculinities, vol. 16, pp. 3 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184X12468103
• Griffin P, 2013, 'Gendering Global Finance: Crisis, Masculinity, and Responsibility', Men and Masculinities, vol. 16, pp. 9 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184X12468097
• Griffin P;Hastings J;Park S, 2013, 'Asia pacific going forward: A view from OCIS V', Global Change, Peace and Security, vol. 25, pp. 1 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14781158.2013.761191
• Griffin P, 2012, 'Men and Masculinities Around the World: Transforming Men's Practices', INTERNATIONAL FEMINIST JOURNAL OF POLITICS, vol. 14, pp. 575 - 578, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2012.726102
• Griffin P, 2011, 'The world bank, HIV/AIDS and sex in sub-Saharan Africa: A gendered analysis', Globalizations, vol. 8, pp. 229 - 248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2010.493025
• Griffin P, 2010, 'Gender, governance and the global political economy', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 64, pp. 86 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357710903460030
• Griffin P, 2009, '(THE LACK OF) GENDER IN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS', INTERNATIONAL FEMINIST JOURNAL OF POLITICS, vol. 11, pp. 127 - 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616740802567899
• Griffin P, 2008, 'Review of '(En)Gendering the War on Terror: War Stories and Camouflaged Politics'', Capital and Class, vol. 94, pp. 142 - 145, http://www.cseweb.org.uk/curr.shtml
• Griffin P, 2008, 'Review of 'The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change'', Development and Change, vol. 39, pp. 699 - 701
• Griffin P, 2008, 'Review of 'Globalization, Development and Human Security'', Development and Change, vol. 39, pp. 699 - 701
• Griffin P, 2007, 'Sexing the economy in a neo-liberal world order: Neo-liberal discourse and the (Re)production of heteronormative heterosexuality', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol. 9, pp. 220 - 238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2007.00280.x
• Griffin P, 2007, 'Refashioning IPE: What and how gender analysis teaches international (global) political economy', Review of International Political Economy, vol. 14, pp. 719 - 736, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09692290701475437
• Griffin P, 2007, 'Neoliberalism and the World Bank: Economic Discourse and the (Re)Production of Gendered Identiy(ies)', Policy Futures In Education, vol. 5, pp. 226 - 238, http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/
• Griffin P, 2006, 'The World Bank', New Political Economy, vol. 11, pp. 571 - 581, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13563460600991028

Working Papers

• Griffin P, 2005, ‘Neoliberal Economic Discourses and Hegemonic Masculinity(ies): Masculine Hegemony (Dis)Embodied’, IPEG Papers in Global Political Economy, 19, http://bisa-ipeg.org/ipegpapers.htm

Semester 1

• ARTS1810

Semester 2

• ARTS2812
• POLS5132

The 2010 British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group (IPEG) Book Prize for Gendering the World Bank: Neoliberalism and the Gendered Foundations of Global Governance (Palgrave Macmillan 2009, http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=308031). 

Co-convenor, British International Studies Association (BISA) Gendering International Relations Working Group (GIRWG) (with Julia Welland, University of Warwick, from January 2016 onwards)

Editorial Board, Routledge Studies in Gender in Global Politics (http://www.routledge.com/books/series/GGP/, Routledge)

Editorial Board, Global Political Economies of Gender and Sexuality (http://www.rowmaninternational.com/series/global-political-economies-of-gender-and-sexuality, Rowman and Littlefield International)

Editorial Board, Politics (www.politicsjournal.org, Wiley-Blackwell publishing)

International Advisory Board, Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy Book Series (http://www.palgrave.com/products/SearchResults.aspx?s=PEPP&fid=9265, Palgrave Macmillan publishing)

Editorial Board, Transforming Capitalism book series (Rowman and Littlefield International, http://www.rowmaninternational.com/series/transforming-capitalism)

Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN)

Australian Political Studies Association (APSA)

British International Studies Association (BISA)

International Studies Association (ISA)

Routledge, Popular Culture, Political Economy and the Death of Feminism: Why Women Are in Refrigerators and Other Stories https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415719384. 

Palgrave Macmillan, Gendering the World Bank: Neoliberalism and the Gendered Foundations of Global Governance, hyperlink;

BISA Gendering IR Working Group (GIRWG) hyperlink;

BISA International Political Economy Group (IPEG) hyperlink;