Profile
 

PhD, The American University

Professor Prügl is Professeure honoraire at the Geneva Graduate Institute. A faculty member since 2009, she was Deputy Director from 2010 to 2014 and Founding Director of the Institute’s Gender Centre.

Prügl’s research focuses on feminist International Relations and gender politics in international governance. She has written on the international regulation of atypical forms of women’s labor, such as industrial homework and agricultural labor, and on gender mainstreaming and gender expertise in international governance. Current projects center on gendered practices of social
reproduction and survival in a context of violence, in particular the war in Ukraine.

Prügl is a recipient of the Eminent Scholar Award of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section (FTGS) of the International Studies Association (ISA). Since January 2022, she is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Feminist Journal of Politics.

THEMATIC EXPERTISE
 

• Gender & public policies
• Governance & multilateralism
• Peacekeeping, peacebuilding, reconstruction policy
• Agriculture, land & rural development
• Experts & epistemic communities
• Social movements, trade unions, NGOs
• Development, cooperation, aid policies
• Intersectional inequalities & emancipation
• International organisations, UN
• Identity politics

Selected publications
 

Books

• Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food: Insights from Ghana and Cambodia. Co-edited with Joanna Bourke-Martignoni, Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, and Dzodzi Tsikata. Routledge, 2022.
• Gender in Peacebuilding: Local Practices in Indonesia and Nigeria. With Christelle Rigual, Rahel Kunz, Mimidoo Achakpa, Joy Onyesoh, Arifah Rahmawati, and Wening Udasmoro. Brill Publishers, 2021.
• Sexual Violence against Men in Global Politics. Co-edited with Marysia Zalewski, Paula Drumond, and Maria Stern. London: Routledge, 2018.
• Feminist Strategies in International Governance. Co-edited with Gülay Çaglar and Susanne Zwingel. London: Routledge, 2013.
• Transforming Masculine Rule: Agriculture and Rural Development in the European Union. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011.

Articles

• Gender as a Cause of Violent Conflict. International Affairs 99, 5 (2023): 1885-1902.
• Gender and the Micro-dynamics of Violent Conflict, with Christelle Rigual and Rahel Kunz. International Feminist Journal of Politics 24, 3 (2022): 345-367.
• Mobilizing Gender for Conflict Prevention: Women’s Situation Rooms, with Paula Drumond and Maria Spano.  Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 16, 3 (2022): 249-268.
• ‘No Matter What—I’ve Got Rights’: Women’s Land Grab Protests in Banyuwangi, East Java, with Wening Udasmoro. International Development Policy/Revue international de politique de Développement 13 (2021).
• Agricultural and Land Commercialization – Feminist and Rights Perspectives, with Fenneke Reysoo and Dzodzi Tsikata. Journal of Peasant Studies 48, 7 (2021): 1419-38.
• Productive Farmers and Vulnerable Food Securers: Gender in International Food Security Discourse, with Saba Joshi. Journal of Peasant Studies 48, 7 (2021): 1439-58.
• The Gender Thing: Apparatuses and Intra-agential Ethos. Review of International Studies 46, 3 (2020): 304-314.
• Untenable Dichotomies: De-gendering Political Economy. Review of International Political Economy 28, 2 (2020): 295-306.
• Feminist Methodology Between Theory and Praxis. Review of International Studies 46, 3 (July 2020): 304-314.
• The Poverty of Neoliberalized Feminism: Gender Equality in a “Best Practice” Large-scale Land Investment in Ghana, with Kristina Lanz and Jean-David Gerber. Journal of Peasant Studies 47, 3 (2020) : 525-543.
• Performative Technologies: Agricultural Research for Development and Gender, with Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay. International Feminist Journal of Politics 21,5 (2019): 702-723.
• Gender Expertise in Global Governance: Contesting the Boundaries of a Field, with Rahel Kunz and Hayley Thompson. European Journal of Politics and Gender 2, 1 (February 2019): 23-40.
• Feminist International Relations: Some Research Agendas for a World in Transition,  with J. Ann Tickner. European Journal of Politics and Gender 1,1 (June 2018): 75-91.
• Neoliberalism with a Feminist Face: Crafting a New Hegemony at the World Bank. Feminist Economics 23, 1 (2016): 30-53. DOI:).
• Neoliberalising Feminism. New Political Economy 20, 4 (August 2015): 614-631.
• Equality Means Business: Governing Gender through Public-Private Partnerships,  with Jacqui True. Review of International Political Economy 21, 6 (2014): 1137-1167.
• Feminism and the Figure of Man. International Studies Review 14, 4 (December 2012): 656-660.
• “If Lehman Brothers had Been Lehman Sisters …”: Gender and Myth in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis. International Political Sociology 6 (March 2012): 21-35.
• Diversity Management and Gender Mainstreaming as Technologies of Government,Politics & Gender 7, 1 (2011): 71-89.
• Feminism and the Postmodern State: Gender Mainstreaming in European Rural Development, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 32, 2 (Winter 2010): 447-475.
• Does Gender Mainstreaming Work? Feminist Engagements with the German Agricultural State, International Feminist Journal of Politics 11, 2 (May 2009): 174-195.
• Gender Orders in German Agriculture: From the Patriarchal Welfare State to Liberal Environmentalism, Sociologia Ruralis 44, 4 (October 2004): 349-372.
• Feminism and Constructivism: Worlds Apart or Sharing the Middle Ground? with Birgit Locher.International Studies Quarterly 45, 1 (March 2001): 111-129.