School of Interdisciplinary Studies
Learning & Teaching Director
Centre for Gender Studies
Chair
Curriculum Quality Assurance Panel
Member
Centre of African Studies
Member
- Name:
- Dr Awino Okech
- Email address:
- ao21@soas.ac.uk
- Address:
- SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 4403
- Academic Support Hours:
- By appointment only
Biography
My teaching and research interests lie in the nexus between gender, sexuality, security and nation/state making projects as they occur in conflict and post-conflict societies. I remain deeply attentive to power in knowledge production and transfer processes and explore these dynamics through my methodological and pedagogical choices in my research and in the classroom. Prior to my appointment at the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS, I worked in the development sector across various sub-regions in Africa for over decade, supporting women rights organisations and local movements in building local capacities for peace. This work remains central to my scholarship and teaching and is illustrated in ongoing support to feminist social justice movements in Africa and feminist movement building organisations globally. At CGS I convene and contribute to a range of postgraduate modules including Gender Theory, Queer Politics in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Dissertation Methods for Gender Studies, African Feminism/s: Theories, Politics and Action and Gender and Security in Africa.
Teaching
Programmes Convened
Modules Taught
- African Feminisms: Theories, Politics and Action
- Dissertation Methods for Gender Studies
- Dissertation in gender studies
- Gender and Security in Africa
PhD Students supervised
- Alison Jin, Women's (dis)engagement with politics in post-1994 Rwanda
- Hanna Al Taher, Gendered Citizenship in Jordan: Imagining, Claiming, Resisting Belonging
- Nina Sun, Intra-household Gender Relations and Modern Marriage Ideal in urban China
Publications
Authored Books
Okech, Awino (2019) Widow inheritance and Contested Citizenship in Kenya. London: Routledge.
Articles
Okech, Awino and Musindarwezo, Dinah (2019) 'Building Transnational Feminist Alliances: reflections on the post 2015 development agenda'. Contexto Internacional, (41) 2, pp 255-272.
Okech, Awino (2019) 'Gender and state-building conversations: the discursive production of gender identity in Kenya and Rwanda'. Journal Conflict, Security & Development, (19) 3, pp 1-15. [Forthcoming]
Okech, Awino (2018) 'Boundary anxieties and infrastructures of violence: Somali identity in post-Westgate Kenya'. Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, (3) 2, pp 293-309.
Olonisakin, 'Funmi and Hendricks, Cheryl and Okech, Awino (2015) 'The convergence and divergence of three pillars of influence in gender and security'. African Security Review, (24) 4, pp 376-389.
Okech, Awino (2015) 'Asymmetrical conflict and human security: Reflections from Kenya'. Strategic Review for Southern Africa, (37) 1, pp 53-74.
Okech, Awino (2013) 'Gendered security: Between ethno-nationalism and constitution making in Kenya'. Africa Peace and Conflict Journal, (6) 1, pp 29-42.
Edited Books or Journals
Olonisakin, Funmi and Hendricks, Cheryl and Okech, Awino, (eds.), (2013) Africa peace and conflict journal - Vo.6 No. 1. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: University for Peace Africa Programme.
Olonisakin, Funmi and Okech, Awino, (eds.), (2011) Women and Security Governance in Africa. Cape Town; Dakar; Nairobi; Oxford: Fahamu; Pambazuka Press.
Book Chapters
Matchett, Sara and Okech, Awino (2015) 'Uhambo: pieces of a dream - Waiting in the Ambiguity of Liminality'. In: Reinelt, Janelle and Singleton, Brian, (eds.), Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp 110-124.
Okech, Awino (2013) ''In sisterhood and solidarity': queering African feminist spaces'. In: Ekine, Sokari and Abbas, Hakima, (eds.), Queer African Reader. Dakar: Pambazuka Press.
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