Swati Parashar
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Swati Parashar is Professor in Peace and Development at the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden. Her teaching and research have led to academic appointments and fellowships in India, Singapore, UK, US, Ireland, Australia and Sweden. She has also taught at the University of Rwanda in Kigali and at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. She is a member of the Swedish Development Research Network and has also served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of SIDA.
Swati’s research interests include feminism, postcolonialism, research methodologies, gender-based violence, conflict, peace and development in South Asia and East Africa. She is the author of Women and Militant Wars: The Politics of Injury (Routledge, 2014); co author of Camille Bulcke: The Jesuit Exponent of Ramkatha (Cambridge University Press, 2024); Ripping, Cutting, Stitching: Feminist Knowledge Destruction and Creation in Global Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023). She has co-edited several books including the Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research; Writing Saved Me; Gender, Silence and Agency in Contested Terrains; and Revisiting Gendered States: Feminist Imaginings of the State in International Relations. She has published several journal special issues and articles, policy papers and popular media pieces. She is a co-editor in chief of the International Feminist Journal of Politics and serves on the advisory boards of other journals as well as the Helsinki University Press. She is also one of the co editors of the book series, Creative Interventions in Global Politics with Rowman and Littlefield, and Gender and Sexuality in Global Politics with Bristol University Press.
Swati also contributes regularly to media debates through op eds and blogs and has served as Chair of the Peace Studies Section of the International Studies Association, and as Program Co-Chair for their 2023 annual convention at Montreal.
Swati holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from Lancaster University, UK; MA in International Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; and a BA (Hons) History from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, India.