Dr Gillian Wylie
Assistant Professor in International Peace Studies, Director of Teaching and Learning Postgraduate
Gillian Wylie is an Assistant Professor in International Peace Studies. She gained her MA and PhD at the University of Aberdeen in the fields of Politics and International Relations. Her primary research interest lies in the area of human trafficking for sexual and labour exploitation in the context of globalisation. Her recent publications include ‘Human Trafficking in Europe: Character, Causes, Consequences’, Palgrave, forthcoming 2010 (edited with Penelope McRedmond); ‘Trafficking in Women, Networks of Knowledge and the Cultural Construction of Europe’ in J. Barkhoff and H. Eberhart (eds.) Networking across Borders and Frontiers. Demarcation and Connectedness in European Culture and Society, Peter Lang, 2009; and ‘The Nature and Extent of Trafficking of Women into Ireland for the Purposes of Sexual Exploitation 2002 - 2006: a report from findings’, NUI Galway Social Science Research Centre, 2007 (co-authored with Eilis Ward). From 2007-2009 she was involved in a European Science Foundation EUROCORES research project on Trafficking for Forced Labour in Europe, which linked research partners in 6 European states. Further research interests include gender-based violence, gender and peace-building, globalisation and global civil society.
Dr Wylie teaches on the International Peace Studies modules on International Politics and Gender, War and Peace, as well as contributing lectures to the Politics of Peace and Conflict and the Religions in Global Civil Society.
Current MLitt and PhD students supervised/co-supervised by Dr Wylie are working in the following fields; maternalism and peace building, rape in war, critical discourse analysis and human trafficking, undocumented migration and the hegemonic domination of the churches’ imagination by the nation-state, the ethics of open and closed borders, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Outside TCD, Dr Wylie is a member of Trocaire’s Programme Review Committee and a board member of Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review.
Areas of expertise
civil society, trafficking in women for the purposes of sexual exploitation, politics and democratisation of Eastern Europe, European Union, transnational social movements, feminist and gender issues
Modules taught
Education
Ph.D. University of Aberdeen
B.A./M.A University of Aberdeen
Contact details
Email: wylieg@tcd.ie
Direct Tel: +353. (01) 1 896 4788
General Tel: +353 (0) 1 8964770, Ext. 4788
Fax: +353 (0) 1 672 5024
Select publications
- 2011, Speaking with a Forked Tongue: Contrary Political Discourses and the Irish State's Construction of Human Trafficking' in, editor(s)Christien van den Anker and Ilse van Liempt , Human rights and labour migration: the wider context of trafficking for forced labour, Basingstoke, Palgrave, pp129 - 144
- Coughlan D., and Wylie G., 2010, Defining Trafficking/Denying Justice: Forced Labour in Ireland and the Consequences of Trafficking Discourse, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37, (9), 2011, p1513 - 1526
- Gillian Wylie and Penny McRedmond, eds. 2010, Human Trafficking in Europe: Character, Causes, Consequences, 1, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2010, 1 - 310pp
- 2009, Trafficking in Women, Networks of Knowledge and the Cultural Construction of Europe in, editor(s)Jurgen Barkhoff and Helmut Eberhart (eds.) , Networking across Borders and Frontiers. Demarcation and Connectedness in European Culture and Society., Bern, Peter Lang, 2009, pp155 - 168
- 2009, Beyond the Performance of 'Sex Wars': The Trafficking-Migration Debate nad Global Anti-Trafficking Networks in, editor(s)Karen Fricker and Ronit Lentin , Performing Global Networks, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, pp105 - 120