Jemima Repo

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Jemima Repo
Twitter	@jrepo

Jemima Repo ist eine britische Politik­wissen­schaftlerin. Sie ist Dozentin in der Politik der Geschlechterpolitik an der Universität Newcastle.

Research interests

Feminist political theory, biopolitics, theories of gender, race and class, contemporary social and political theory, violence, popular culture

Qualifications

PhD in Political Science (Politics) University of Helsinki, 2012

MSc in Political Science (World Politics) University of Helsinki, 2006

BA in Political Science (World Politics) University of Helsinki, 2006

Previous positions

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki

Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London

Visiting Lecturer, University of Groningen

Visiting Reseach Fellow, Waseda University

Memberships

Editorial board member of Democratic Theory

Editorial board member of the Finnish ISA journal Kosmopolis

American Political Science Association

American Sociological Association

European International Studies Association

International Studies Association

Finnish Women's Studies Association

Finnish International Studies Association

Finnish Peace Research Association

Finnish Political Science Association

Publications

• Repo J. Thanatopolitics or biopolitics? Diagnosing the racial and sexual politics of the European far-right [Bodies in politics]. Contemporary Political Theory 2016, 15(1), 110-118.
• Repo J. Gender Equality as Bioeconomic Governmentality in a Neoliberal EU. In: Prozorov,S; Rentea,S, ed. Ashgate Research Companion to Biopolitics. Farnham: Ashgate, 2016. In Press.
• Repo J. The Biopolitics of Gender. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
• Repo J. Gender Equality as Biopolitical Governmentality in a Neoliberal European Union. Social Politics 2014, Epub ahead of print.
• Repo J, Yrjölä R. 'We’re All Princesses Now': Sex, Class and Neoliberal Governmentality in the Rise of Middle-Class Monarchy. European Journal of Cultural Studies 2015, 18(6), 741-760.
• Repo J. Herculine Barbin and the Omission of Biopolitics from Judith Butler’s Gender Genealogy. Feminist Theory 2014, 15(1), 73-88.
• Repo J. Reproduction. In: Gibbons,MT; Coole,D; Ellis,E; Ferguson,K, ed. The Encyclopedia of Political Thought. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, pp.3222-3226.
• Repo J. The Biopolitical Birth of Gender: Social Control, Hermaphroditism, and the New Sexual Apparatus. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 2013, 38(3), 228-244.
• Repo J. The Life Function: The Biopolitics of Sexuality and Race Revisited. Theory & Event 2013, 16(3).
• Repo J. The Governance of Fertility Through Gender Equality in the EU and Japan. Asia Europe Journal 2012, 10(2-3), 199-214.
• Repo J. "Gender" biopolitiikkana. Naistutkimus-Kvinnoforskning 2012, 3, 51-55.
• Kantola J, Norocel C, Repo J. Gendering violence in the school shootings in Finland. European Journal of Women’s Studies 2011, 18(2), 183-197.
• Repo J, Yrjölä R. The Gender Politics of Celebrity Humanitarianism in Africa. International Feminist Journal of Politics 2011, 13(1), 44-62.
• Repo J. Sexuality, Race and the Biopolitics of Difference. In: Kajanus,A;Meinke,M, ed. Perspectives on Difference: Makings and Workings of Power. Helsinki: Renvall Institute Publications 30, Unigrafia, 2012.
• Repo J. A Feminist Reading of Gender and National Memory at the Yasukuni Shrine. Japan Forum 2008, 20(2), 219-243.
• Repo J. Sukupuoli, toiseus ja väkivaltaisuuden rajat: Diskursseja naisterroristeistä ja naissotilaista Irakin sodassa. Naistutkimus-Kvinnoforskning 2007, 4, 4-15.