School of Politics and International Studies

Dr Jelke Boesten

Senior Lecturer in Social Development and Human Security

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I am interested in the workings of inequalities, mainly with regard to gender. Latin America, in particular Peru, has been central to my work since 1998. Since 2005 I also look at sub-Saharan Africa, and have been involved in several collaborative and comparative research projects in Tanzania.

I am an Associate Member of the Institute of the Americas at UCL.

Research Interests

I am interested in gender and development, gender and violence, social inequalities, transformative justice and social policy, and recently finished a book manuscript: Rape in War and Peace: Rethinking Sexual Violence and Post-conflict Justice in Peru.

Teaching

I currently teach on PIED 5256 Global Inequalities and Development, PIED 1200: Contemporary Development Issues, PIED 3230 Gender and Violence, and am MA Global Development Programme Director.

PhD Supervision

I am keen to supervise students in the following fields.

  • Gender, health, and sexuality
  • Gender and conflict
  • Gender and violence
  • Non-governmental public action
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Social policy and human security
  • Related issues in the Andean countries and East Africa

Key Publications

Books

Journal Articles

  • Boesten, J. (2012) The State and Violence Against Women in Peru: Intersecting Inequalities and Patriarchal Rule, Special Issue Gender and Social Policy, Social Politics, edited by Maxine Molyneux and Jasmine Gideon, vol 19 (3).
  • Boesten, J. (2011) Navigating the AIDS Industry: Being Positive and Poor in Tanzania. Development and Change 42 (3) pp 781-803.
  • Boesten, J. (2011) (Accepted November 2009). with Anna Mdee. Service delivery on the cheap? Community-based Workers in Development Interventions. Development in Practice. Vol 21 (1).
  • Boesten, J. (2010) Analyzing Rape Regimes at the Interface of War and Peace in Peru. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 4 (1) pp110-129.
  • Boesten, J. (2010) Revisiting ‘Democracy in the Country and at Home’ in Post Conflict Peru. In: Democratization, Special Issue on Democracy and Violence, 17 (2) pp 307-325.
  • Boesten, J. (2007) Free Choice or Poverty Alleviation? Population Policies under President Fujimori of Peru. European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 82, pp.3-20.
  • Boesten, J. (2006) Pushing the Boundaries: Social Policy, Domestic Violence, and Women's Organisations in Peru. Journal of Latin American Studies, 38(2), pp.355-378.
Chapters in Books
  • Boesten, J. (2009) Wartime Rape and Peacetime Inequalities in Peru, In Catherine Kevin ed., Feminism and the Body, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Boesten, J. (2009) Transactable Sex and Unsafe Practices: Gender and Sex when Living with HIV/AIDS, Boesten and Poku (eds.) Gender and AIDS, Ashgate.
  • Boesten, J. (2008). 'Democracia en el hogar?' In: Luis Avila, (ed.) 2008, Dinámicas de control y resistencia en las relaciones familiares, Morelia, CREFAL, IPN.
  • Boesten, J. (2008). 'Narrativas de sexo, violencia y disponibilidad: Raza, género y jerarquías de la violación en Perú' In: Peter Wade, Fernando Urrea Giraldo, and Mara Viveros Vigoya eds., Raza, etnicidad y sexualidades: ciudadanía y multiculturalismo en América Latina, Bogota: Universidad nacional de Colombia.
  • Boesten, J. (2007) Marrying the Man Who Raped You: Domesticating War Crimes in Ayacucho, Peru. In: Donna Pankhurst (ed.) Gendered Peace: Women's search for post-war justice and reconciliation, Routledge.
Working Papers

Media Contact Areas

  • Politics in Peru
  • HIV/AIDS in southern Africa



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