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Dr Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes

Position/s:Joint appointment in Women't Studies and Development Studies
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Phone: +61 8 82013133
Email:
Location: Social Sciences South (315)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Teaching

Topic Coordinator:

  • DVST 2006 The Politics of the Global South: From Bullets to Ballot Box and Back
  • INTR 9062 Contemporary Issues in Gender and Development
  • POLI 2027 Feminist Political Theory
  • WMST 2017 Gender, Globalisation and International Development
  • WMST 3013 Gendering Politics and Policy: Justice, Rights and Representation
  • WMST 8007 A Walk on the Wild Side: Gender and International Politics
  • WMST 9015 Women's Studies: Research Strategies

Research and consultancy

Publications

Books

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2005. Lost voices: central Asian women confronting transition, London: Zed Books.

Book chapters

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2011. The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics: a case study of gender and politics in Lospalos Timor-Leste. In Security, Development and Nationa Building in Timor Leste - a cross sectoral assessment. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 80-100.

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2008. Female consciousness or feminist consciousness? Women's consciousness raising in community based struggles in Brazil. In TRANSFORMATIONS: Feminist Pathways to Global Change. Boulder, CO - USA: Paradigm Publishers, pp. 123-133.

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2004. Country institutional reports: Australia. In WOMEN'S/GENDER STUDIES IN ASIA-PACIFIC. Bangkok, Thailand: UNESCO, pp. 195-199.

Corcoran-Nantes, Y. & Roberts, K., 2003. 'We've got one of those!': the peripheral status of women in male-dominated industries. In Workplace / Women's Place. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury, pp. 302-320.

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2003. Female consciousness or feminist consciousness?: women's consciousness raising in community-based struggles in Brazil. In Feminist Theory Reader. New York: Routledge, pp. 126-137.

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2002. Women and popular urban social movements in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In The City: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences. New York, USA: Routledge, pp. 636-653.

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2000. Environment: Commonwealth of Independent States. In International Encyclopedia of women: global women's issues and knowledge. New York: Routledge.

Refereed journal articles

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2011. Unnatural Beings: Gender and Terrorism. Outskirts, 24.

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2009. The politics of culture and the culture of politics - a case study of gender and politics in Lospalos, Timor-Leste. Conflict, Security and Development, 9(2), 165-187.

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Books

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2005. Lost voices: central Asian women confronting transition, London: Zed Books.

Book chapters

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2011. The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics: a case study of gender and politics in Lospalos Timor-Leste. In Security, Development and Nationa Building in Timor Leste - a cross sectoral assessment. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 80-100.

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2008. Female consciousness or feminist consciousness? Women's consciousness raising in community based struggles in Brazil. In TRANSFORMATIONS: Feminist Pathways to Global Change. Boulder, CO - USA: Paradigm Publishers, pp. 123-133.

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2004. Country institutional reports: Australia. In WOMEN'S/GENDER STUDIES IN ASIA-PACIFIC. Bangkok, Thailand: UNESCO, pp. 195-199.

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2003. Female consciousness or feminist consciousness?: women's consciousness raising in community-based struggles in Brazil. In Feminist Theory Reader. New York: Routledge, pp. 126-137.

Corcoran-Nantes, Y. & Roberts, K., 2003. 'We've got one of those!': the peripheral status of women in male-dominated industries. In Workplace / Women's Place. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury, pp. 302-320.

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2002. Women and popular urban social movements in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In The City: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences. New York, USA: Routledge, pp. 636-653.

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2000. Environment: Commonwealth of Independent States. In International Encyclopedia of women: global women's issues and knowledge. New York: Routledge.

Refereed journal articles

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2011. Unnatural Beings: Gender and Terrorism. Outskirts, 24.

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2009. The politics of culture and the culture of politics - a case study of gender and politics in Lospalos, Timor-Leste. Conflict, Security and Development, 9(2), 165-187.

Journal articles

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2005. MacLachlan, Colin M. (2003) A History of Modern Brazil: The Past Against the Future (Review). Bulletin of Latin American Research, 24(1), 131-133.

Conference publications

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2009. Gender, Culture and Politics of Change - Democracy and Post Conflict Reconstruction in Timor Leste. UNESCO Women's Studies & Gender Research Networking Conference.

Nurunnaher, N., Corcoran-Nantes, Y., & Wohab, A., 2008. Theoretical Debate on Women's Empowerment through Microcredit Programs: Virtuous Spiral or Viscious Circle. Urban Environmental Management towards Sustainability.

Corcoran-Nantes, Y., 2005. Useful or useless: feminist theory and female empowerment in Indonesia. Embracing the Earth: East-West/North-South: Women's Worlds 2005: 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women.

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Professional and community engagement

Expertise for media contact

  • Gender and Politics war, political parties, feminism, popular movements, revolutionary movements, international perspectives, especially Latin America, Central Asia and East Asia
  • Gender and Development environment, human rights, agriculture, population issues, politics, industrialisation, CIS countries

Subject/s

  • Asia
  • Conflict/Disputes
  • Development
  • Gender Studies
  • Latin America
  • Politics
  • Terrorism
  • Women


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