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Healthcare Not Airfare! Art, Abortion and Political Agency in Ireland (2019)
Journal Article
Calkin, S. (2019). Healthcare Not Airfare! Art, Abortion and Political Agency in Ireland. Gender, Place and Culture, 26(3), 338-361. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2018.1552928

Ireland’s near-total abortion ban was, in effect, a policy of offshoring abortions. Before the May 2018 vote to repeal it, the 8th Amendment allowed for conservative and nationalist groups to celebrate the idea of Ireland as an ‘abortion-free’ territ... Read More about Healthcare Not Airfare! Art, Abortion and Political Agency in Ireland.

Towards a Political Geography of Abortion (2018)
Journal Article
Calkin, S. (2019). Towards a Political Geography of Abortion. Political Geography, 69, 22-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.11.006

This article introduces a political geography of abortion, arguing that abortion access is an essential but overlooked site where gendered mechanisms of state control are enforced and contested. Today, abortion access is currently in the midst of a s... Read More about Towards a Political Geography of Abortion.

Disrupting disempowerment: feminism, co-optation, and the privatised governance of gender and development (2017)
Journal Article
Calkin, S. (2017). Disrupting disempowerment: feminism, co-optation, and the privatised governance of gender and development. New Formations, 91, 69-86. https://doi.org/10.3898/newf%3A91.04.2017

Longstanding debates about the relationship between neoliberalism and feminism have been given new vigour by the somewhat surprising emergence of an 'unabashed feminism' espoused by elite women in political, economic, and cultural institutions of the... Read More about Disrupting disempowerment: feminism, co-optation, and the privatised governance of gender and development.

Feminism, interrupted? Gender and development in the era of ‘Smart Economics’ (2015)
Journal Article
Calkin, S. (2015). Feminism, interrupted? Gender and development in the era of ‘Smart Economics’. Progress in Development Studies, 15(4), 295-307. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464993415592737

This article assesses feminist accounts of co-optation and appropriation in gender and development policy. Today women and girls are the public faces of anti-poverty policy and occupy an important position in the development discourse; however, the a... Read More about Feminism, interrupted? Gender and development in the era of ‘Smart Economics’.

“Tapping” Women for Post-Crisis Capitalism: Evidence from the 2012 World Development Report (2015)
Journal Article
Calkin, S. (2015). “Tapping” Women for Post-Crisis Capitalism: Evidence from the 2012 World Development Report. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 17(4), 611-629. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2015.1071994

Girls and women have become the public faces of development today, through the success of “Gender Equality as Smart Economics” policy agendas and similar development narratives that mediate feminist claims through market logic. Women, these narrative... Read More about “Tapping” Women for Post-Crisis Capitalism: Evidence from the 2012 World Development Report.

Globalizing ‘Girl Power’: Corporate Social Responsibility and Transnational Business Initiatives for Gender Equality (2015)
Journal Article
Calkin, S. (2016). Globalizing ‘Girl Power’: Corporate Social Responsibility and Transnational Business Initiatives for Gender Equality. Globalizations, 13(2), 158-172. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2015.1064678

The recent emergence of ‘transnational business feminism’ [Roberts, A. (2014). The political economy of ‘transnational business feminism’. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 17(2), 209–231] accompanied by numerous ‘transnational business ini... Read More about Globalizing ‘Girl Power’: Corporate Social Responsibility and Transnational Business Initiatives for Gender Equality.

Post-Feminist Spectatorship and the Girl Effect: “Go ahead, really imagine her” (2015)
Journal Article
Calkin, S. (2015). Post-Feminist Spectatorship and the Girl Effect: “Go ahead, really imagine her”. Third World Quarterly, 36(4), 654-669. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1022525

Women and girls are currently positioned as highly visible subjects of global governance and development, from the agendas of the United Nations and the World Bank to the corporate social responsibility campaigns of Nike, Goldman Sachs and Coca Cola.... Read More about Post-Feminist Spectatorship and the Girl Effect: “Go ahead, really imagine her”.