Dr. Jenny Peterson
Intergenerational Connections and Futures Lead (PPP) Associate Professor of Teaching (UBC)
Jenny Peterson joined the department from the Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (Manchester) where she worked as a lecturer from 2009-2013. She is broadly interested in the politics of international aid with her past work analyzing process of liberal peacebuilding and critiques thereof. Finding much of this critical work homogenizing of a diverse range of processes she has recently began exploring conceptual and empirical deviations from the liberal model. Engaging with debates on pacifism, agonism, resistance, hybridity and political space she is now exploring diversity and innovation, both local and international, in peace/justice movements. She has conducted research and led student fieldtrips in Kosovo, Sri Lanka and Ghana. Her teaching interests include peace studies, international relations, humanitarian studies and human rights.
Publications
Shelling, W and Peterson, J (2021) 鈥楽tudent Led Advocacy and the 鈥淪cholars in Prison鈥� Project:聽 Experiential Learning and Critical Knowledges in International Relations鈥� in聽Signature Pedagogies in International Relations, edited by Jan Ludert:聽 E-International Relations Publishing.
Peterson, J (August, 2018) 鈥榃hy we should try publishing with our undergraduates鈥� Times Higher Education Online
Peterson JH (2018) 鈥楻esisting Securitized and Militarized Understandings of Protection: Aesthetics as Counterpower鈥櫬�International Politics, Online First version聽
Peterson, JH (2016) 聽鈥楬umanitarianism and Peace鈥櫬�Palgrave Handbook of 聽Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace. 聽Oliver Richmond, Sandra Pagoda and Jasmin Ramovic eds. Palgrave.
Peterson, JH (2016) 鈥楾he Politics of Crime, Violence and Policy鈥� in聽Linking Political Violence and Crime in Latin America: Myths Realities and Complexities.聽 Peterson and Howarth, eds. Lexington Books
Howarth K and Peterson JH eds (2016)聽聽Linking Political Violence and Crime in Latin America: Myths Realities and Complexities. Lexington Books.
Peterson, JH and Mac Ginty R eds. (2015)聽Handbook on Humanitarian Action, Routledge Press.
Peterson, JH (2014) Building a Peace Economy? Liberal Peacebuilding and the Development-Security Industry Manchester University Press.
Peterson, JH (2013) 鈥淐reating Space for Emancipatory Human Security: Liberal Obstructions and the Potential of Agonism鈥� International Studies Quarterly, 57(2), 318-328.
Peterson, JH (2013) 鈥淎 conceptual unpacking of 鈥榟ybridity鈥�: Accounting for notions of power, politics & progress in analyses of aid driven interfaces鈥� Journal of Peacebuilding and Development 7(2), 9-22.
Peterson, JH and Campbell S (2013) 鈥淪tatebuilding鈥� in Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding. Roger Mac Ginty ed. London: Routeledge. 336-346.
Peterson, JH (2010) 鈥溾�楻ule of Law鈥� initiatives and the liberal peace: the impact of politicized reform in post conflict states.鈥� Disasters 34(1), 2010, 15-39.