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Elisa Wynne-Hughes

Dr Elisa Wynne-Hughes

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Overview

I conduct interdisciplinary collaborative research on transnational and urban (im)mobilities and how they reproduce various global (neoliberal/colonial/gendered) hierarchies and exclusions. This has led me to study urban tourism and responses to sexual harassment to understand practices like 'touristic governance' (or how tourism exerts power globally) and neoliberal authoritarianism. For example, I have conducted research on how tourism in Cairo (re)shaped exclusionary neoliberal adaptations of authoritarianism before and after the 2011 Egyptian revolution. I have studied how tourism guidebooks depicted the sexual harassment of women tourists to Egypt in a way that built consent for national/global counterterrorism practices in the revolutionary period. I have also examined the shifting role of anti-street harassment groups during the post-revolution transition to understand how neoliberal authoritarianism is gendered. I frame this research through an engagement with theories of popular culture and world politics, along with post/decolonial, feminist and poststructural approaches, employing discourse analysis and ethnographic research methods. I am part of networks studying touristic governance, how street harassment reproduces (im)mobilities, and how we can use walking tours to decolonise urban spaces. 

 

 

 

Publication

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2007

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Research

The international politics of tourism

Including neoliberal authoritarianism and urban tourism in Egypt, how tourism governs, the power of touristic representations. 

Transnational responses to everyday sexual violence

Including tourism guidebook representations of sexual harassment in Cairo and responses to street harassment from independent initiatives like HarassMap in the period immediately before and following the 2011 Egyptian revolution. 

Postcolonial Governmentalities

Precarity and International Relations

 

Teaching

Current Teaching:

  • Introduction to Globalization (1st Year, UG)
  • Critical Approaches to Middle East Politics (2nd Year, UG)
  • Popular Culture and World Politics (3rd year, UG)
  • The International Politics of Tourism: Difference, Discovery and Desire (PGT)

Previously Taught:

  • International Security (2nd Year, UG)
  • The International Politics of the Middle East: Security, Development and Governance (3rd Year, UG)
  • Popular Culture and World Politics (PGT)
  • Gender, Sex and Death (2nd Year, UG)
  • Colonialism, Global Political Economy and Development (2nd Year, UG)
  • Issues in International Relations (PGT)

I have completed the Cardiff Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning programme, and am a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Biography

Education and Qualifications

    • PhD in Politics, Bristol, UK
    • MA in Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada
    • BA (Honours) in Political Studies and English Literature, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

Career Overview

    • 2014 - present: Cardiff University School of Law and Politics, Department of Politics and IR

Supervisions

I welcome proposals for research projects in my areas of research. These include:

  • popular culture and world politics
  • the international politics of tourism
  • transnational responses to everyday sexual violences
  • neoliberal subjectivities
  • neoliberalism authoritarianism and urban tourism in Egypt
  • postcolonial governmentalities
  • postcolonial, feminist and poststructural approaches
  • discourse analysis and ethnographic research methods

 

Current supervision

Ali Kourani

Ali Kourani

Vicky Sutch

Vicky Sutch

Teaching Associate and PhD student

Shahrzad Akbari

Shahrzad Akbari

Contact Details

Specialisms

  • Popular Culture and World Politics