School of Politics and International Studies

Research Interests

I am interested in gender and sexuality, gender and violence, HIV/AIDS, social movements and social policy. Currently, I am working on a research project looking at meanings of sexual violence in war- and peace-time Peru. In addition, I'm working on a book that examines non-governmental public action and HIV/AIDS in Tanzania.

Teaching

I currently teach on PIED 5230M:Development Theories, Strategies and Issues, PIED 5293M: Other Wars: Conflict in a Gendered Perspective, PIED 3225: Health and Human Security: Approaches to HIV/AIDS and PIED 1200: Contemporary Development Issues.

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

Chapters in Books

• 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.
• 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.

Books

• Boesten, J. and Nana Poku eds. (2009). Gender and HIV/AIDS. Critical Perspectives from the Developing World, Ashgate.
• Boesten, J. (2010). Intersecting Inequalities: Women and Social Policy in Peru. Penn State University Press.

Journal Articles

• 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.
• Boesten, J. (Forthcoming 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.

Working Papers

• Boesten, J. (2007) Precarious Future: Community volunteers and HIV/AIDS in a Tanzanian roadside town. ICPS Working Paper 4. University of Bradford.
• Boesten, J. (2007) AIDS Activism, Stigma and Violence. A Literature Review. ICPS Working Paper 5. University of Bradford.
• Boesten, J. (2010) Inequality, normative violence and liveable life: Judith Butler and Peruvian Reality, POLIS Working Paper No 1.

Media Contact Areas

• Politics in Peru
• HIV/AIDS in southern Africa