Dr Juanita Elias

Biography/ Background

Juanita Elias joined the department in 2005. She was educated at Manchester University (BA Politics and Modern History)and Warwick University (MA International Political Economy, PhD Politics and International Studies). Juanita Elias teaches courses in International Relations.

Research Interests

• Gender issues in world politics (including gender and development,gender and globalisation
  and gender in IR theory)
• International Political Economy
• The politics of corporate social responsibility
• Political Economy of Malaysia

Publications

BOOKS:

(2007) International Relations: The Basics (with Peter Sutch). London: Routledge [textbook].

(2004) Fashioning Inequality: The MNC and gendered employment in a globalising world, Aldershot: Ashgate [single authored manuscript].

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES:

(forthcoming 2010) "Transnational Migration, Gender and Rights: Advocacy and Activism in the Malaysian Context" International Migration Journal

(2010) "Gendered Political Economy and the Politics of Migrant Worker Rights: The View from Southeast Asia" Australian Journal of International Affairs, 64(1)

(2009) with Chris Beasley "Hegemonic Masculinity and Globalization: 'Transnational Business Masculinities' and Beyond", Globalizations, Vol. 6 (2), pp. 281-295.

(2009) "Gendering Liberalisation and Labour Reform in Malaysia: Fostering 'competitiveness' in the productive and reproductive economies" Third World Quarterly Vol. 30 (3), pp. 469-483.

(2008) "Struggles over the rights of foreign domestic workers in Malaysia: The possibilities and limitations of ‘rights talk’" Economy and Society Vol. 10 (4), pp. 383-388.

(2008) "Hegemonic Masculinities, the Multinational Corporation, and the Developmental State: Constructing Gender in ‘Progressive’ Firms", Men and Masculinities Vol. 10 (4), pp. 405-421.

(2008) "Introduction: Hegemonic Masculinities in International Politics" Men and Masculinities Vol. 10 (4), pp. 383-388.

(2007) "Women workers and labour standards: The problem of ‘human rights’", Review of International Studies Vol. 33 (1), pp. 45-57.

(2005) "The gendered political economy of control and resistance from the shop floor of the multinational firm: A case study from Malaysia", New Political Economy Vol. 10 (2), pp. 203-222

(2005) "Stitching-up the Labour Market: Recruitment, Gender and Ethnicity in the Multinational Firm”, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 7 (1), pp. 90-111

(2004) "Evaluating human capital: An exploratory study of management practice”, (with Harry Scarbrough), Human Resource Management Journal, Vol 14(4)

(2003) "International labour standards, codes of conduct and gender issues: A review of recent debates and controversies", Non-state Actors and International Law, Vol. 3, Nos.2-3, pp. 283-301

EDITORIAL WORK

(forthcoming 2010) co-editor (with Carol Johnson) special issue of Australian Journal of Political Science, 'Australia Re-engaging Asia'

(forthcoming 2010) co-editor (with Leonard Seabrooke) special issue of the Australian Journal of International Affairs 'The Sociological Turn in Australian IPE'

(2008) Editor, special issue of the Journal Men and Masculinities ‘Hegemonic Masculinities in International Politics’ Vol. 10 (4).

BOOK CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS:

(Forthcoming) 'Gender and Labour' essay for the International Studies Association Compendium Project edited by Robert A. Denmark. Oxford: Blackwell.

(Forthcoming 2009) with Lucy Ferguson 'Production, Reproduction and Consumption' in Laura J. Shepherd (ed.) Gender Matters in Global Politics, London: Routledge.

(2009) with Hayley Stevenson ‘Women Work and Labour Standards’ in Jenny Gunning, Soren Holm and Ian Kenway, Ethics, Law and Society Volume IV, Aldershot: Ashgate.

(Forthcoming 2009) ‘Work and the Global Economy’ in Susan Shaw and Janet Lee (eds.) Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women. McGraw Hill.

(2007) with Lucy Ferguson "The Gender Dimensions of New Labour’s International Development Policy", in Claire Annesley, Francesca Gains and Kirstein Rummery (eds.) Women and New Labour .Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 211-228.

(2006) with Robert Lee "Ecological Modernisation and Environmental Regulation: Corporate Compliance and Accountability" in Sorcha MacLeod (ed.) Global Governance and the Quest for Justice: Corporations, Governance and Globalisation v. 2, Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp. 163-181

(2005) with Celia Wells, "Holding Multinational Corporations Accountable for Breaches of Human Rights", in Jennifer Gunning and Søren Holm (eds), Ethics, Law and Society Volume 1, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 227-237.

(2005) with Celia Wells "Catching the Conscience of the King: Corporate Players on the International Stage" in Philip Alston (ed) Non State Actors in International Law, Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law, Oxford University Press, pp. 141-175

(2002), "Recruitment and Employment Practices in a Multinational Firm: Gendered Divisions of Labour in Malaysia and Britain", in Hazim Shah, Jomo KS, and Phua Kai Lit, Malaysia at the Crossroads: New Perspectives in Malaysian Studies, Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Social Science Association, pp. 139-157

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES:

(2006) Entries on "Export processing zones" and "South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)" in Mark Bevir (ed.) SAGE Encyclopedia of Governance, London, Thousand Oaks: Sage.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Various book reviews in journals including Gender, Work and Organisation; Feminist Economics; Political Studies Review; Capital & Class; Feminist Theory; Millennium: Journal of International Studies.

Entry last updated: Sunday, 1 Nov 2009