Julia Zulver
Researcher
- Julia.Zulver@fhs.se
- Department of War Studies
- Functions and Perspective Division
- War Studies
- Engelsk beskrivning om dig själv
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I am a Wallenberg Academy Fellow at the Department of War Studies, Swedish Defence University, where I lead a five-year project on feminist responses to rising backlash in Latin America.
Before this, I was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas (UNAM, Mexico) and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (2020-2024), where I studied women's leadership in high-risk social movements across the region. I was also the Postdoctoral Gender Researcher for Oxford's CONPEACE Programme (2019), conducting fieldwork along the Colombian-Venezuelan border on how the reconfiguration of armed conflict and Venezuelan migration shape the lives of women in the borderlands. My doctoral thesis (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, 2018) focused on women's organisations mobilising for gender justice in Colombia. The resulting book, "High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts" was published in 2022 by Rutgers University Press, and in Spanish by Ediciones Uniandes and FESCOL.
I believe it is important to bring a feminist lens to public debates about security and conflict, and I do so through publishing commentary across public media outlets. These outputs are available at: juliazulver.com/media
Alongside my academic work, I am a Senior Researcher at Ladysmith, a feminist research consultancy that collects, analyses, and acts on gender data, where I lead the Women, Peace and Security + portfolio. In the past, I have undertaken research for the Centre for Reproductive Rights, the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, the Equality Fund, Impunity Watch, and the Overseas Development Institute.
Finally, I serve as an expert witness in asylum trials related to gender-based violence and violence against women activists and human rights defenders in Colombia and El Salvador and am registered with the UC Hastings Center for Gender and Refugee Studies.
Latest publications
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A state of denial : Why Mexico’s National Action Plan is not fit for purposePart of European Journal of Politics and Gender
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Book Reviews editorialPart of International feminist journal of politics
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Explaining Violence Against Feminist Activists and Women Human Rights DefendersPart of Politics & Gender
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FemicidePart of Handbook on Gender and Violence
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The Right Mobilizing Against Gender and Women’s Rights in Latin AmericaPart of Latin American Politics and Society
Research projects
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IKV 2024Julia Zulver