Assoc Prof Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes

Position/s:Head, Discipline of Women's Studies. Director of Postgraduate Studies, Centre for 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 supervision

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 Vandra Harris and Andrew Goldsmith, ed. Security, Development and Nation-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 Torry D. Dickinson and Robert K.Schaeffer, ed. TRANSFORMATIONS: Feminist Pathways to Global Change. Boulder, CO - USA: Paradigm Publishers, pp. 123-133.
Corcoran-Nantes, Y. (2004). Country institutional reports: Australia. In Philip Bergstom, ed. Women's/gender studies in Asia-Pacific. Bangkok, Thailand: UNESCO Publishing, pp. 195-199. [online]. Available from: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?catno=136213&set=4BA0506B_2_386&gp=1&mode=e&lin=1&ll=1.
Corcoran-Nantes, Y. (2003). Female consciousness or feminist consciousness?: women's consciousness raising in community-based struggles in Brazil. In Carole R McCann and Seung-Kying Kim, ed. Feminist Theory Reader. New York: Routledge, pp. 126-137.
Corcoran-Nantes, Y. and 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 Michael Pacione, ed. 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 Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender, ed. 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. [online]. Available from: http://www.outskirts.arts.uwa.edu.au/volumes/volume-24/corcoran-nantes.
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), pp.165-187. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14678800902925044.

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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 Vandra Harris and Andrew Goldsmith, ed. Security, Development and Nation-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 Torry D. Dickinson and Robert K.Schaeffer, ed. TRANSFORMATIONS: Feminist Pathways to Global Change. Boulder, CO - USA: Paradigm Publishers, pp. 123-133.
Corcoran-Nantes, Y. (2004). Country institutional reports: Australia. In Philip Bergstom, ed. Women's/gender studies in Asia-Pacific. Bangkok, Thailand: UNESCO Publishing, pp. 195-199. [online]. Available from: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?catno=136213&set=4BA0506B_2_386&gp=1&mode=e&lin=1&ll=1.
Corcoran-Nantes, Y. and 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 Carole R McCann and Seung-Kying Kim, ed. Feminist Theory Reader. New York: Routledge, pp. 126-137.
Corcoran-Nantes, Y. (2002). Women and popular urban social movements in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In Michael Pacione, ed. 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 Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender, ed. 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. [online]. Available from: http://www.outskirts.arts.uwa.edu.au/volumes/volume-24/corcoran-nantes.
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), pp.165-187. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14678800902925044.
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), pp.131-133.
Conference publications
Corcoran-Nantes, Y. (2009). Gender, Culture and Politics of Change - Democracy and Post Conflict Reconstruction in Timor Leste. In Secretariat, The Regioal Unit for Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific, ed. UNESCO Women's Studies & Gender Research Networking Conference. UNESCO Women's Studies & Gender Research Networking Conference.
Nurunnaher, N., Corcoran-Nantes, Y. and Wohab, A. (2008). Theoretical Debate on Women's Empowerment through Microcredit Programs: Virtuous Spiral or Viscious Circle. In Nowarat Coowanitwong, Prajapati Shapkota, Pravakar Pradhan & Leilani Gallardo, ed. Urban Environmental Management towards Sustainability. International Conference on Sustainable Urban Environmental Practices. [online]. Available from: http://www.sea-uema.ait.ac.th/Publications/abstracts/material/Abstract_cm_2008.pdf.
Corcoran-Nantes, Y. (2005). Useful or useless: feminist theory and female empowerment in Indonesia. In Women's Worlds 2005 Organizing Committee, ed. Embracing the Earth: East-West/North-South: Women's Worlds 2005: 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women. Embracing the Earth: East-West, North-South. [online]. Available from: http://www.ww05.org/english3/pdf/WW05_Program.PDF.

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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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