Catherine Eschle

Dr Catherine Eschle

Small Group Project 2024-25

Base Women and Beyond: Developing a Decolonial Feminist Approach to Military/Nuclear Installations

This project seeks to revive and extend feminist approaches to the everyday politics of military and nuclear installations. As a starting point, we follow Cynthia Enloe’s invitation to take women and gender seriously in the analysis of military bases in her classic chapter “Base women”. We aim to develop a more systematic decolonial feminist analysis of a variety of military/nuclear site-specific installations around the world, such as bases, laboratories, and training academies, in relation to the following three lines of enquiry: • the infrastructures and quotidian practices through which these sites are sustained; • how these sites are experienced by, and resisted in, local communities; • the material and affective legacies they leave behind.

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Areas of interest

Feminism International Relations Social Movements Global Justice Neoliberalism Gender Protest Decolonisation

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FG10

Biography

Catherine Eschle is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and Public Policy, University of Strathclyde.

Catherine is a feminist international relations and social movements scholar.

Her earlier work focused on the global justice movement and organising against neoliberalism; more recently, she has published on the gendered politics of protest camps and on feminism in relation to (anti)nuclear politics.

With Shine Choi, she coordinates the international, interdisciplinary FemNukes research network, which recently produced a special section of International Affairs combining feminist and decolonial approaches to the global nuclear order.

She is currently researching the transnational solidarity networks that linked women from Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp with Indigenous communities in the Pacific and the Americas.

Biographical details correct as of 09.07.25