Daniel Conway's Page

What motivated you (or your organization) to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?

My research interests draw from my PhD which was entitled ‘Masculinities, Citizenship and Political Objection to Compulsory Military Service in the South African Defence Force (SADF) 1978-1990’. This analysed competing discourses of masculinity and citizenship between South African white male political objectors to compulsory conscription, their supporters in the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) and the apartheid state. I am particularly interested in the intersections between gender, sexuality and militarisation and conceptualise military service and objection to it as performative acts generative of political subjectivities. I explore post-structural theories of politics and international relations and my work fits more broadly in gendered and feminist approaches to International Relations and Political Sociology.

Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs)

I am a Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics, International Relations and European Studies, Loughborough University. Before coming to Loughborough I was at the Department of Politics, University of Bristol where I had been an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Post-Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Lecturer. I have a BA (Hons) in History and Politics from the University of Exeter and an MSc with Distinction in International Relations from the University of Bristol. I was awarded a PhD in Politics by Rhodes University, South Africa.

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise

South Africa

What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?

UK

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?

Lecturer in Politics

What is your personal or organizational website?

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/eu/people/academics/Conway-Danie...

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://www.ecc25.org/ecc25/

What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)

http://www.mg.co.za

Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?

Civil Society, Culture, Democratization, , Human Rights

Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?

Research, Qualitative Skills

What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?

* South African politics and society
* Masculinities and international politics
* Gender studies and feminist politics
* Post-Colonial Politics and Development
* Sexuality and Queer Theory
* Popular Culture and Politics
* Militarisation
* Peace Movements
* Whiteness and Race Politics

If appropriate feel free to list several of your (or your organization's) publications

Book

(Forthcoming) Contesting the Masculine State: Masculinities, Militarisation and War Resistance in Apartheid South Africa (Manchester University Press).


Journal Articles
(2009) ‘Queering Apartheid: The National Party’s 1987 ‘Gay Rights’ Election Campaign in Hillbrow’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 35(4): 849-848.

(2008) ‘Masculinities and Narrating the Past: Experiences of Researching White men who Refused to Serve in the Apartheid Army’, Qualitative Research, 8(3), 347-354.

(2008) ‘The Masculine State in Crisis: State Response to War Resistance in Apartheid South Africa’, Men and Masculinities, 10(4): 422-439.

(2004) ‘Every Coward’s Choice’? Political Objection to Military Service in Apartheid South Africa as Sexual Citizenship’, Citizenship Studies, 8(1), pp. 25-45.


Book chapters

(2008) ‘Contesting the Masculine State: White Male War Resisters in Apartheid South Africa’, in Zalewski, M. and Parpart, J. (eds.) Rethinking the Man Question: Sex, Gender and Violence in International Relations (London: Zed Press).

(2008) ‘“Somewhere on the Border - Of Credibility”: The Cultural Construction and Contestation of ‘the Border’ in White Society’, in Baines, G. and Vale, P. (eds) Beyond the Border War: New Perspectives on Southern Africa’s Late Cold War Conflicts (Pretoria: University of South Africa Press).

(2006) ‘White Masculinities’, in Jones, A. (ed.) Men of the Global South: A Reader (London: Zed).

(2005) ‘Masculinity, Citizenship and Objection to Military Service in the South African Defence Force’ in Gouws, A. (ed.) (Un)Thinking Citizenship: Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa (Basingstoke and Cape Town: Ashgate and UCT Press).

(2002) with Roger Southall, ‘Africa in the International System’ in Nel, P. & McGowan, P. (eds.) Power, Wealth and Global Order: An International Relations Textbook in Africa (UCT Press: Cape Town).


Media

(Posted 11/1/2007) ‘South Africa’, Roundtable Forum ‘Global Perspectives 2007’, International Affairs Forum, Center for International Relations. Click here for more information (24/8/2006)

‘This Modern Republic is not a ‘Boot Camp for Progressive Ideals’: Negative Analysis of South Africa Obscures the Country’s Dynamism’, The Guardian, London. Click here for more information.