Associate ProfessorMaree Pardy

Conference Papers/Presentations

The enduring coloniality of Development Feminism gender and violence interventions - Australian Womens and Gender Studies Conference November 2022

This paper argues that development feminism's reliance on an ahistorical and transhistorical concept of gender perpetuates the racialization of non-Western 'gendered' bodies. It empirically analyses the predominance of development interventions addressing gender-based violence and raises questions about the effects of the sector's approach to 'gender' and 'violence.'

Response to a Scandal - race and the development sector in Haiti (with A/Prof Kalissa Alexeyeff) - Australian Womens and Gender Studies Conference November 2022

A 2018 scandal involving Oxfam in Haiti sparked condemnation of the development and humanitarian sectors alleged complicity in the sexual exploitation of Haitian sex workers. Our examination of Oxfams media documents, shows that the sectors representations of Haitian sex workers in this case, and its approach to sex work in general are regulated by a racialised protectionism.

Power and Resistance in Localisation - Centre for Humanitarian Leadership Conference - April 2021, Deakin University

Humanitarians from the Global South are increasingly resisting the moral legitimacy of the international humanitarian system, revealing again the relationship between resistance and power. This paper draws on empirical research with humanitarian actors and joins Foucault (1978) and Abu-Lughod (1990) in tracking the claim that "where there is resistance there is power." Claims from the Global South for an increases share of resources and power brings further light to the forms of power in the international humanitarian system.