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Yolande Bouka

Yolande Bouka

Associate Professor

Deptartment of Political Studies

成人大片 University

yolande.bouka@queensu.ca

Mackintosh-Corry Hall C425

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成人大片

Dr. Yolande Bouka is the Canada Research Chair on Afrofeminist Thought and Political Transformation, and an Associate Professor of gender and politics and international relations at Queen鈥檚 University in Canada. She is also the co-director of the MINDS-funded Research Network on Women, Peace, and Security.  Prior to her academic appointment, she worked as a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in the Conflict Prevention and Risk Analysis Division, focusing on Africa鈥檚 Great Lakes Region. Her research focuses on gender, political violence, and race and international relations. The key questions driving her multidisciplinary research agenda is how vulnerable groups and individuals understand and navigate structural and political violence and how these experiences influence the social and political landscapes of conflict-affected societies.

Research Interests

  • Gender and Security
  • Race and Politics
  • African politics

Recent Publications

  • Contestation en Afrique, with Marie-Eve Desrosiers (Les Presses de l鈥橴niversit茅 de Montr茅al, 2022).
  • 鈥淐reate Foreign Policies as if Black and Brown Lives Mattered鈥 In Feminist Solutions to Ending War, edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner (London: Pluto Press, 2021).
  • 鈥淚mplementing Inclusion: Gender Quotas, Inequality, and Backlash in Kenya鈥 with Marie Berry and Marilyn Muthoni Kamuru, Politics and Gender 17:4, 640-664 (2020)

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