Centre for Gender Studies

Convenor, MA in Gender Studies and Law

School of Law

MA Convenor (Term 1)

School of Interdisciplinary Studies

Doctoral Studies Director

Centre for Human Rights Law

Member

Academic Board

Member

Equality & Diversity Committee

Member

Name:

Dr Gina Heathcote

Email address:

gh21@soas.ac.uk

Telephone:

+44 (0)20 7898 4367

Address:

SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Building:

Russell Square: College Buildings

Office No:

S335

Academic Support Hours:

Thursday 09.30-11.30

Biography

Programmes Convened

• Gender and Conflict (2019)
• LLM in Law and Gender (2018)
• LLM in Law and Gender (2019)
• LLM in Law and Gender (2020)
• MA Legal Studies (General Programme) (2018)
• MA Legal Studies (General Programme) (2019)
• MA Legal Studies (General Programme) (2020)
• Research Degrees (MPhil/PhD) in Gender Studies (2019)

Modules Taught

• Gender, Armed Conflict and International Law
• Gender, Peace and International Law
• Gender, Sexuality and Law: Selected Topics
• International Law of the Sea

PhD Students supervised

• Akanksha Mehta, Negotiating Space on the 'Right': The everyday politics of Hindu Nationalist and Zionist settler women in India and Israel-Palestine
• Alaya Forte, New forms of political inclusion or mere tokenism? Reading political representation from a gender and minority perspective in British and French government (working title)
• Alice Finden, A queer historical analysis of Anglo/Egyptian counter-terrorism and emergency law (Working title)
• Alison Jin, Sustainable Representation of Women in Parliament via Gender Quotas in Post-conflict Rwanda
• Bilge Sahin, Bringing Justice to the People: Examining International Assistance to the DR Congo’s Judiciary and Its Impacts on Sexual Violence Crimes and Gender Power Relations in North-Kivu
• Biye Gao, Gender, Class and Reproduction in Post-Socialist Rural China (working title)
• Emily Jones, Feminist Cyborgs and Gods: International Law, Humanism and the limits of the Global Order
• Haya Al -Noaimi, ‘The Protectors of Our Nation’: Discourses of Protection and the Construction of Masculinities in the Qatari and Emirati Militaries
• Isabel Käser , Militant Femininity: The PKK-led Women's Movement in the Kurdish Middle East – A Transnational Analysis
• Oreva Olakpe, Sovereignty and South-South Migrations in International Law: A Case Study on Nigeria and China
• Paola Zichi, Thesis (Working) Title: On Feminist Approaches to Self-Determination in Mandatory Palestine
• S. Paniz Musawi Natanzi, Visual Art Production in War: A Feminist Geopolitical Analysis of Masculinities in Art-Producing Spaces in West Kabul, Afghanistan, from 2014-2018
• Sara Bertotti , Law and Peace Agreements: Theory and Practice (working title)
• Sidonia Lucia Kula, Working Title: The Accountability of States for the Rape, Sexual Abuse and Violence Against Congolese Refugees in Angola
• Sreya Banerjea, 'Ladki Paraya Dhan Hoti Hai' (Girls are Others' Property')

Authored Books

Heathcote, Gina (2019) Feminist Dialogues on International Law: successes, tensions, futures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Heathcote, Gina (2011) The Law on the Use of Force: A Feminist Analysis. London: RoutledgeCavendis.

Articles

Heathcote, Gina (2018) 'On Feminist Legal Methodologies: Spilt, Plural and Speaking Subjects'. feminists@law, (8) 2.

Heathcote, Gina (2018) 'War’s Perpetuity: Disabled Bodies of War and the Exoskeleton of Equality'. Australian Feminist Law Journal, (44) 1, pp 71-91.

Heathcote, Gina (2018) 'Security Council Resolution 2242 on women, peace and security: progressive gains or dangerous development?'. Global Society, (32) 4, pp 374-394.

Heathcote, Gina (2017) 'Women and children and Elephants as Justification for Force'. Journal on the Use of Force and International Law, (4) 1, pp 66-85.

Heathcote, Gina (2016) 'From ‘people with projects’ to ‘encountering expertise’: a feminist reading of Kennedy’s A World of Struggle'. London Review of International Law.

Heathcote, Gina (2012) 'Naming and Shaming: Human Rights Accountability in Security Council Resolution 1960 (2010) on Women, Peace and Security'. Journal of Human Rights Practice.

Heathcote, Gina (2011) 'Feminist Politics and the Use of Force: Theorising Feminist Action and Security Council Resolution 1325'. Socio-legal Review, (7).

Heathcote, Gina (2010) 'Feminist Reflections on the 'End' of the War on Terror'. Melbourne Journal of International Law, (11) 2.

Heathcote, Gina (2005) 'Article 51 Self-Defense as a Narrative: Spectators and Heroes in International Law Symposium: The Power of Stories: Intersections of Law, Literature, and Culture - Transnational Narratives'. Texas Weslayan Law Review, (12), pp 131.

Edited Books or Journals

Heathcote, Gina and Loughnan, Arlie, (eds.), (2018) Celebrating 20 Years of Nicola Lacey's Unspeakable Subjects. feminists@law: University of Kent.

Heathcote, Gina and Kinsella, Helen, (eds.), (2017) Special Issue on Dystopias and Utopias. Springer. (Feminist Review Vol. 116 No. 1).

Gill, Aisha and Heathcote, Gina and Williamson, Emma, (eds.), (2016) Feminist Review. Special Issue on Violence. London: Palgrave. [Inpress]

Heathcote, Gina and Otto, Dianne, (eds.), (2014) Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security. London: Palgrave Macmillian. (Thinking Gender in Transnational Times).

Book Chapters

Chinkin, Christine and Heathcote, Gina and Jones, Emily and Jones, Henry (2019) 'Bozkurt Case, aka the Lotus Case (France v Turkey): Two Ships that Go Bump in the Night'. In: Hodson, Loveday and Lavers, Troy, (eds.), Feminist Judgments in International Law. Hart. [Forthcoming]

Heathcote, Gina (2019) 'Feminism and the Law of the Sea: a preliminary inquiry'. In: Papanicolopulu, Irini, (ed.), Gender and the Law of the Sea. Brill.

Heathcote, Gina (2018) 'Humanitarian Intervention and Gender Dynamics'. In: Cahn, Naomi and Haynes, Dina and Ni Aolain, Fionnuala and Valji, Nahla, (eds.), Oxford Handbook on Gender and Conflict. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Forthcoming]

Heathcote, Gina (2017) 'LAWs, UFOs and UAVs: Feminist Encounters with the Law of Armed Conflict'. In: Babie, Paul and Stephens, Dale, (eds.), Imagining Law: Essays in Conversation with Judith Gardam. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, pp 153-170.

Heathcote, Gina (2016) 'Robust Peacekeeping, Gender and the Protection of Civilians'. In: Charlesworth, Hilary and Farrall, Jeremy, (eds.), Strengthening the Rule of Law through the UN Security Council. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp 150-163.

Heathcote, Gina (2015) 'Feminist Perspectives on the Law on the Use of Force'. In: Weller, Marc, (ed.), Oxford University Press Handbook on the Prohibition of the Use of Force. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 114-128.

Heathcote, Gina (2014) 'Participation, Gender and Security'. In: Heathcote, Gina and Otto, Dianne, (eds.), Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Monographs and Working Papers

Heathcote, Gina (2010) Force, Feminism and the Security Council. London: SOAS School of Law Research Paper No. 06 2010.

Conference Items

Heathcote, Gina (2014) 'Women and children: Robust Peacekeeping, Gender and the Protection of Civilians' In: Centre for European Law and Internationalisation Seminar, 12th February 2014, University of Leicester. [Unpublished]

Heathcote, Gina (2014) 'Women and Children and Elephants: Robust Peacekeeping and Protection Narratives' In: Wisconsin International Law Journal Annual Symposium, 4th-5th April 2014, Madison. [Unpublished]

Heathcote, Gina (2014) 'Gender Experts in the International Realm' In: Feminist Strategy in International Law, International Studies Association, March 2014, Toronto. [Unpublished]

Heathcote, Gina (2012) 'Working paper No. 5.5 The Security Council and the rule of law: the use of force, robust peacekeeping and gender perspectives,' In: The Use of Force and the Rule of Law, 20th & 21st June 2012, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Heathcote, Gina (2012) 'The Politics of Natality: From Formal Equality to the Spectrum of Feminist Thinking' In: International Law and the Periphery, 17th -19th February 2012, The American University in Cairo. [Unpublished]

Heathcote, Gina (2012) 'Achieving Accountability for Human Rights Violations by Non-state Actors: Challenging Sexual Violence and Creating Paths to Peace' In: 21st Congress of the International Federation of Women in Legal Career, Nov 12th- 16th, Dakar, Senegal. [Unpublished]

Book Reviews

Heathcote, Gina (2014) 'Gender Politics in Transitional Justice (Catherine O'Rourke)'. Gender and Development, (22) 1.

Other

Heathcote, Gina (2017) 'Eating us out of House and Home [Part of the introduction to Food Special Issue]' Feminist Review, 114.

Heathcote, Gina (2016) 'I am an Immigrant' Feminist Review Blog: Collective Reflections on Brexit.

Heathcote, Gina (2015) 'The Protection of Civilians and Protection of Peacekeeping Mandates: Gender and Ethics in Collective Security' feminists@law, 5.

Heathcote, Gina (2013) 'Time to Rethink the Women, Peace and Security Agenda?' International Law Grrls.

Heathcote, Gina (2013) 'Thinking Gender and Speaking International Law' Oxford University Press Blog.

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