Dr Catherine Eschle

Senior Lecturer

Politics

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Personal statement

I am a feminist scholar of International Relations (IR) and politics, with two overlapping research interests. The first is in feminism and social movement politics, with my books including Making Feminist Sense of the Global Justice Movement (2010) and Feminism and Protest Camps (2023). My second interest is in global nuclear politics and particularly feminist antinuclear critiques. Initially working to extend Western Cold War feminist antinuclear arguments to post-Cold War developments, and to reinterrogate the politics of feminist antinuclear activism and of peace camps in the UK, in recent years I have been developing a research program integrating feminist and post colonial critiques of the global nuclear order. To that end, I co-founded the international, interdisciplinary FemNukes research network in 2020, which produced a special section of International Affairs. I am currently working on projects on transnational antinuclear solidarities and on the material, everyday politics of military/nuclear installations.

In the Department of Government and Public Policy, I teach Honours and Masters-level classes on Feminism and Politics, Feminism and International Relations, and Global Nuclear Politics, and I also contribute to the Masters in Applied Gender Studies. I am Undergraduate Director of GPP and co-Director of Teaching.

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Publications

Base women and beyond
Deiana Maria-Adriana, Eschle Catherine, Frain Sylvia C, Kayser Lis, Ómarsdóttir Silja Bára R, Taha Hebatalla, Untalan Carmina Yu
International Feminist Journal of Politics (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2025.2510495
Gender, violence and nuclear weapons
Li Ruoyu, Eschle Catherine
Handbook on Gender and Violence (2025) (2025)
Entangled worlds : the intimate, uncomfortable relationship between feminist scholarship and feminist activism
Eschle Catherine
The Contemporary Reader of Feminist International Relations (2024) (2024)
'Why haven't you known?' Transoceanic solidarity and the politics of knowledge in feminist anti-nuclear activism
Eschle Catherine
Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung/ ZeFKo Studies in Peace and Conflict Vol 12, pp. 195-216 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s42597-023-00091-1
Protest camps as 'homeplace'? : social reproduction in and against neoliberal capitalism
Eschle Catherine
Feminism and Protest Camps Entanglements, Critiques and Re-Imaginings (2023) (2023)
Feminism and Protest Camps : Entanglements, Critiques and Re-imaginings
Eschle Catherine, Bartlett Alison
(2023)

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Professional Activities

Ross Priory Residential Workshop
Participant
20/2/2025
Opening Keynote
Speaker
6/12/2024
British International Studies Annual Convention
Participant
5/6/2024
Paper Presentation
Speaker
11/4/2024
International Studies Association Annual Convention
Participant
3/4/2024
Base women and beyond project workshops
Participant
2/4/2024

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Projects

The Contested Afterlives of Nuclear Bases
Eschle, Catherine (Principal Investigator)
31-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2026
Base Women and Beyond: Developing a Feminist Decolonial Approach to Military/Nuclear Installations
Eschle, Catherine (Principal Investigator)
31-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
Weaving Webs Across Oceans: Antinuclear solidarities between Greenham Women and Indigenous Communities
Eschle, Catherine (Principal Investigator)
working with Glasgow Women's Library to expand and catalogue Women for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific archive; curated the exhibition ‘Weaving a Transcoceanic Web’ October 2023-January 2024
01-Jan-2023

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Dr Catherine Eschle
Senior Lecturer
Politics

Email: catherine.eschle@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2214