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

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

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.