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Biography
Elisa Wynne-Hughes is a Reader in International Relations in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University. They hold an MA in Political Science from York University (2007) and a PhD in Politics from the University of Bristol (2013).
Elisa conducts interdisciplinary, collaborative research on transnational and urban (im)mobilities, focusing on how they reinforce global hierarchies and exclusions. Her work explores urban tourism and responses to sexual harassment as sites where power operates through practices such as touristic governance and neoliberal authoritarianism.
She has examined how tourism in Cairo shaped exclusionary neoliberal forms of authoritarianism before and after Egypt's 2011 revolution, and has analysed how guidebooks portrayed the sexual harassment of women tourists in ways that legitimized national and global counterterrorism efforts during the revolutionary period. She has also investigated the shifting role of anti-harassment groups during the post-revolutionary transition to understand how neoliberal authoritarianism is gendered.
Her research is grounded in theories of popular culture and world politics, along with post/decolonial, feminist, and poststructuralist approaches, drawing on discourse analysis and ethnographic methods. She is part of networks that study touristic governance, the role of street harassment in shaping (im)mobilities, and the use of walking tours to decolonise urban spaces.
Elisa conducts interdisciplinary, collaborative research on transnational and urban (im)mobilities, focusing on how they reinforce global hierarchies and exclusions. Her work explores urban tourism and responses to sexual harassment as sites where power operates through practices such as touristic governance and neoliberal authoritarianism.
She has examined how tourism in Cairo shaped exclusionary neoliberal forms of authoritarianism before and after Egypt's 2011 revolution, and has analysed how guidebooks portrayed the sexual harassment of women tourists in ways that legitimized national and global counterterrorism efforts during the revolutionary period. She has also investigated the shifting role of anti-harassment groups during the post-revolutionary transition to understand how neoliberal authoritarianism is gendered.
Her research is grounded in theories of popular culture and world politics, along with post/decolonial, feminist, and poststructuralist approaches, drawing on discourse analysis and ethnographic methods. She is part of networks that study touristic governance, the role of street harassment in shaping (im)mobilities, and the use of walking tours to decolonise urban spaces.
Biographical details correct as of 21.05.26