Academic Staff: Daniela Tepe-Belfrage

Dr Daniela Tepe-Belfrage

Faculty Research Fellow, Social Science

Telephone: +44 (0)114 222 0664
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 1717
Room: Elmfield Annex Room C2

Please note that Dr Tepe-Belfrage will be on maternity leave from January 2012 and will only have limited email access.

Profile

Daniela joined the Department in September 2012 as a Faculty Research Fellow. She was previously a lecturer in the Department of European and International Studies at King’s College London. She completed her ESRC-funded PhD at the University of Birmingham on a critical engagement with mainstream IR’s engagement with Civil Society Organisations, particularly focusing on the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Afterwards she joined the University of East London as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. She holds Masters Degrees in Public Administration, Political Science and Political Science Research Methods.

Daniela has a broad range of research interests, increasingly focusing on Gender, questions of Social Reproduction, Critical Theory and International Political Economy.

Recent Invited Papers and Keynote Lectures

12 September 2012 University of Manchester, CRESC- Workshop – Roundtable presentation: What makes methods critical?
07 November 2012 Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany - Growth - but only - if “we are all in this together!” – A feminist critique of community cohesion as “growth” strategy
14 December 2012 Conference of Socialist Economists –Trans-Pennine Working Group, University of Leeds – The “New” Materialism in IPE - What it Does(not) and Can(not) tell us about the Gendered Dimensions of ‘Austerity’

Professional activities and recognition

Guest Editor of Journal of International Relations and Development and Review of International Political Economy
Advisory Board Member of Review of Capital as Power

Current Research

Daniela’s current research project The Politics of Community and the Impact of Gendered Models of Production and Social Reproduction engages with the absence of a Gender focus from Research and Political Practice on Community Cohesion. The argument she develops is that community cohesion deepens a trend in public policy that is part of a process of global neoliberal restructuring that makes women both victims of public policy and criminalised by accompanying discourses and practices. Theoretically the project combines critical approaches in International Political Economy and Criminology to develop a framework that captures broader changes in the welfare politics of Britain.

Key Publications

Monograph

(2011) The Myth about Global Civil Society. Domestic Politics to Ban Landmines, Palgrave Studies in International Relations Series, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Articles

(2012) ‘Interrogating the Local/Global Nexus: A Feminist IPE approach to the problem of community and social cohesion’ International Politics, 49(1) (with Jill Steans).
(2011) ‘Framing Scrappage in Germany and the UK: from climate discourse to recession talk’, Journal of Transport Geography, 19(6): 1563-1569.
(2011) ‘What’s critical about critical theory’: Capturing the social totality (das Gesellschaftliche Ganze) Journal of International Relations and Development 14(3): 366-375 (with Anita Fischer)
(2010) Social Reproduction in International Political Economy: Theoretical Insights and International, Transnational and Local Sitings, Review of International Political Economy 17(5): 807-815 (with Jill Steans).
(2009) ‘Policy Networks and the Distinction between Insider and Outsider Groups: The Case of the Countryside Alliance’, Public Administration, 87(3): 621-638 (with David Toke, Dave Marsh, Claes Belfrage and Sean McGoth).

PhD Supervision

I am very happy to supervise student on issues relating to Gender in International Political Economy and International Relations, Social Reproduction and Critical Theory.