Maria-Adriana Deiana

Dr Maria-Adriana Deiana

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

International Relations Feminism War & Peace Security Gender Politics Citizenship Activism Conflict Former Yugoslavia Northern Ireland European Union Border Studies

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FG10

Biography

Maria-Adriana Deiana is a Lecturer in international relations at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research deploys feminist and other critical perspectives to examine the interrelated issues of war, peace, security. She has authored papers on gender politics, citizenship and feminist activism in contexts shaped by conflict/international intervention, as well as on 'everyday' wartime experiences as embodied, affective and mediated through aesthetic narratives. She has conducted research on the post-Yugoslav space, the politics of Northern Ireland, EU border politics and security. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Citizenship studies, Peacebuilding, Geopolitics and the Journal of Narrative Politics. Her monograph titled 'Gender and Citizenship: Promises of Peace in Post-Dayton Bosnia & Herzegovina' was published by Palgrave in 2018.

Biographical details correct as of 09.07.25