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A full list of my published work is available on Google Scholar . Much of it can be read in open access version here.
The deGruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography
The deGruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography
With my colleague Cordelia Freeman, I served as co-editor of the deGruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, forthcoming November 2025.
This volume collects forty-seven chapters from feminist political geographers across the world on a wide range of topics, tracing the sub-discipline from its origins to its futures. The book can be purchased here.
Above: Pharmaceutical Market in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (Own photo)
Below: Repeal Mural by Maser, Dublin 2018 (Own photo)
Abortion Access Beyond the Nation-State
Abortion Access Beyond the Nation-State
From 2017-2020, I held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to carry out a project on the changing geographies of abortion.
Publications from the project include:
Books:
2023. Abortion Pills Go Global: Reproductive Freedom Across Borders. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
2020. After Repeal: Rethinking Global Abortion Politics. Editors: Browne, K. and Calkin, S. London: Zed Books. (ISBN 9781786997180). 312 pgs. (My role: co-editor, 50/50 split of editorial duties) Reviewed in Gender & Development, Gender Place & Culture, and Community Development Journal.
Journal Articles:
(2024). ‘It's Not Mifepristone, But It's Not Poison’: Finding Fakes in Poland's Abortion Underground. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 42(2), 47-64. DOI: 10.3167/cja.2024.420205
2022. "The geography of abortion: Discourse, spatiality and mobility." Progress in Human Geography 46(6): 1413-1430. Co-authored with Cordelia Freeman and Francesca Moore (Equal authorship split, 33/33/33) DOI: 10.1177/03091325221128885
2022. "Legal geographies of medication abortion in the USA." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 47(2): 378-392. DOI: 10.1111/tran.12506
2021. "Legal and non-legal barriers to abortion in Ireland and the United Kingdom." Medicine Access@ Point of Care 5. (Co-authored with my PhD student Ella Berny, authorship split 66/33 to me as lead author) DOI: 10.1177/23992026211040023
2021. “Transnational Abortion Pill Flows and the Political Geography of Abortion in Ireland.” Territory Politics Governance 9(2), 163-179 DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2019.1704854
2020. “Persistence and Change in Morality Policy: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Politics of Abortion in Ireland and Poland.” Co-authored with Monika Ewa Kaminska (50/50 equal authorship split). Feminist Review Issue 124: 86–102. DOI: 10.1177/0141778919894451
2019. “Towards a Political Geography of Abortion.” Political Geography 69, 22-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.11.006
2019. “Healthcare, Not Airfare! Art, Abortion and Political Agency in Ireland.” Gender Place & Culture. Gender, Place & Culture. 26(3): 338-361. DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2018.1552928
2018. “Trails and Technologies: Social and Cultural Geographies of Abortion Access” co-authored with Cordelia Freeman (50/50 equal authorship split); Social and Cultural Geography. 20(9):1325-1332. DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2018.1509114
Above: World Development Report 2012
Below: Nike's Girl Effect Campaign
Empowerment, Equality, and 'Smart Economics'
Empowerment, Equality, and 'Smart Economics'
From 2011-2017, I carried out research in the field of feminist political economy. This research included my doctoral research (2011-2015) at the University of York.
My research during this period explored the ‘Gender Equality as Smart Economics’ agenda promoted by the World Bank and its private sector partners. From the World Bank, to NGOs, and private businesses, discourses about the economic benefits of gender equality and women’s empowerment underpin a range of development interventions that aim to unlock the ‘untapped’ potential of the world’s women. These development agendas have concrete impacts on the lives of girls and women, producing more interventionist forms of development governance, increased power by private sector actors in development, and de-politicization of gender equality issues.
Publications from the project include:
Book
2018. Human Capital in Gender and Development. Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics series. London: Routledge (ISBN 9781138697348). 200 pgs. (Sole-authored monograph) Reviewed in Gender & Development, Progress in Development Studies and The LSE Review of Books.
Journal Articles
2017. “’Disrupting’ Disempowerment: Neoliberal Feminism and the Private Governance of Gender and Development.” New Formations special issue on ‘Righting Feminism’, no. 91, 69-86. DOI: 10.3898/NEWF:91.04.2017
2016. "Globalizing ‘Girl Power’: Corporate Social Responsibility and Transnational Business Initiatives for Gender Equality." Globalizations 13(2), 158-172. DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2015.1064678
2015. “’Tapping’ Women for Post-Crisis Development: Evidence from the 2012 World Development Report.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 17(4), 611-629. DOI:10.1080/14616742.2015.1071994. Reprinted in Gender and Crisis in Global Politics, Ed. Laura Sjoberg, Routledge, 2018.
2015. “Feminism, Interrupted? Gender and Development in the Age of Smart Economics.” Progress in Development Studies 15(4), 295-307. DOI: 10.1177/1464993415592737. Nominated by the editorial board for the Best Article Award of 2015
2015. “Post-feminist spectatorship and the Girl Effect: ‘Go on, really imagine her.’” Third World Quarterly 36(4), 654-669. DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1022525
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