Department of Government and International Relations
The University of Sydney
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Assoc. Prof. Louise Chappell

Assoc. Prof. Louise Chappell  

BA UNE PhD Syd.

 
  Phone 9351 3310
  FAX 9351 3624
  Location Room 286
H04 Merewether Building
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Louise Chappell researches and teaches in the area of human rights, gender and political institutions, and comparative Australian politics and policy. She is currently involved in a number of research projects including an ARC funded project on the implementation of the gender provisions of the International Criminal Court as well as a project on the politics of human rights in Australia.

Louise has published widely in international and national journals including Gender and Politics, Global Society, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Parliamentary Affairs, Australian Journal of Political Science, and the Australian Journal of Public Administration. Her book Gendering Government: Feminist Engagement with the State (UBC Press 2002) won the prestigious Victoria Schuck Award granted by the American Political Science Association in 2003 for the best book in the field of women and politics as well as the 2004 American Library Association Choice Award. Other books include The Politics of Women’s Interests, co-edited with Lisa Hill, (Routledge 2006) and No Fit Place for Women’? Women and Politics in New South Wales 1856-2006, co-edited with Deborah Brennan (UNSW Press 2006).

Louise is co-director of the Feminism and Institutionalism International Network which is based at Edinburgh University and in 2005 was appointment as the Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair of Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. She regularly attends international conferences including the American Political Science Association and the European Consortium for Political Research. In the past three years she has been invited to present her research at leading universities in the United States, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands and Belgium. In the second half of 2008 Louise will take up a position as a visiting fellow at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Louise has supervised students at Masters and PhD level in a range of areas including: women’s rights, children’s rights, humanitarian intervention, comparative Muslim women’s political organising and gender and the United Nations.

Having worked in the NSW Cabinet Office in the early 1990s, Louise has maintained her connection with the NSW public sector through the Institute of Public Administration Australia. For many years Louise was a member of the NSW IPAA Council and continues to consult to and facilitate courses on public policy for the Institute.

Research Interests

 
  • Australian politics
  • Federalism
  • Gender and politics from a comparative and international perspective
  • Human rights
  • Public policy

Publications

 

2008

Book Chapter/s

Chappell L 2008. ‘Governing International Law through the International Criminal Court: A New Site for Gender Justice?’ in Shirin Rai and Georgina Waylen eds. Global Governance: Feminist Perspectives. Palgrave MacMillan

Chappell L 2008.‘Women’s Rights and Religious Opposition: The Politics of Gender at the International Criminal Court’ in Yasmeen Abu-Laban ed. Gendering the Nation State: Canadian Comparative Perspectives. University of British Columbia Press.

Journal Article/s

Chappell L (co-authored), Teghtsoonian, K 2008 'The Rise and Decline of Women’s Policy Machinery in British Columbia and New South Wales: A Cautionary Tale', International Political Science Review (2008), Vol. 29, No. 1, 29–51

Conference Proceeding/s

Chappell L 2008 Comparing Gender and Institutions Across Time and Place, Paper Presented to the ECPR Joint Sessions in Rennes, France 11-16 April 2008

2007

Conference Proceeding/s

Chappell L 2007 'Comparative Gender and Institutions: Directions for Research', 2007 American Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, USA,30 August- 2 September.

Chappell L 2007 'Comparative Gender and Institutions: Directions for Research' Paper Presented to the conference on Toward a Comparative Politics of Gender: Advancing the Discipline along Interdisciplinary Boundaries Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio October 2007.

2006

Book Section/s

Brennan D and Chappell L 2006 'Introduction: Gender and NSW Politics' in No Fit Place for Women´?: Women and Politics in New South Wales 1856-2006, ed. D.Brennan and L.Chappell, UNSW Press, Sydney pp. 1-14.

Chappell L 2006 ‘Women’s Interests’ as ‘Women’s Rights’: developments at the UN criminal tribunals and the International Criminal Court' in ed. The Politics of Women´s Interests: New Comparative Perspectives, Routledge Press. , UK.

Chappell L 2006 'Working from within: women in the NSW bureaucracy' in No Fit Place for Women’? Women and Politics in New South Wales 1856-2006, ed. L.Chappell and D.Brennan, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.

Edited Book/s

Chappell L and Hill L 2006 The Politics of Women´s Interests: New Comparative Perspectives , Routledge Press. , UK.

Brennan D and Chappell L 2006 'No Fit Place for Women’? Women and Politics in New South Wales 1856-2006, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney

Journal Article/s

Chappell L 2006 'Contesting Women's Rights: Charting the Emergence of a Transnational Conservative Patriarchal Network', Global Society, vol.20:4, pp. 491-519.

Chappell L 2006 'Comparing Political Institutions; Revealing the Gendered "Logic of Appropriateness"', Politics and Gender, vol.2:2, pp. 223-34.

2005

Conference Proceeding/s

Chappell L 2005 'Gender mainstreaming in International Institutions: developments at the UN ad hoc tribunals and the International Criminal Court', International Studies Association, Hawaii USA,3-5 March, 2006.

2004

Book Section/s

Chappell L 2004 'Feminist Engagement with Federal Institutions: Opportunities and Constraints for Multi-level Citizenship' in Representation and Democratic Theory, ed. David Laycock, UBC Press.

Conference Proceeding/s

Chappell L 2004 'Contesting women's rights: the influence of religious forces at the United Nations', The Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Adelaide,29 September - 1 October 2004.

Chappell L 2004 'The Contentious Politics of Women´s Human Rights: Religious and Cultural Challenges to Women´s Equality in the International Arena', The American Political Science Association Conference, Chicago.

2003

Journal Article/s

Chappell L 2003 'Women, Gender and International Institutions: Exploring New Opportunities at the International Criminal Court', Policy Organisation and Society, vol.22:1.

Conference Proceeding/s

Chappell L 2003 'Finding space for women's interests: developments at the UN ad hoc tribunals and the International Criminal Court', Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart,29 September - 1 October 2003.

2002

Book/s

Chappell L 2002 Gendering Government: Feminist Engagement with the State in Australia and Canada, British Columbia Press, Vancouver.

Book Section/s

Chappell L 2002 'The Femocrat Strategy: Expanding the Repertoire of Feminist Activists' in Women Politics and Change, ed. Karen Ross, Oxford University Press, Oxford pp. 85-98.

Journal Article/s

Chappell L 2002 'The Australian Bill of Rights Debate: Putting the Cart Before the Horse?' The Drawing Board - Digest, vol.3:1.

Chappell L 2002 'The Femocrat Strategy: Expanding the Repertoire of Feminist Activists', Parliamentary Affairs, vol.55:1, pp. 85-98.

Chappell L 2002 'Winding back Australian women's rights: conventions, contradictions and conflicts', Australian Journal of Political Studies, vol.37:2, pp. 475-488.

Conference Proceeding/s

Chappell L 2002 'Constructing Women's Rights: Lessons from Australia', On temporary Political Studies - Proceedings of the 2002 Annual Conference, University of Aberdeen,5-7 April 2002.

2001

Journal Article/s

Chappell L 2001 'Federalism and Social Policy: The Case of Domestic Violence', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol.60:1, pp. 59-69.

2000

Book Section/s

Chappell L 2000 'Kathleen O´Keefe' in Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Journal Article/s

Chappell L 2000 'Interacting with the state - Feminist strategies and political opportunities', International Feminist Journal of Politics, vol.2:2, pp. 244-275.

1999

Journal Article/s

Chappell L 1999 'Activism and the policy process', Australian Journal of Political Science, vol.34:3, pp. 442-442.

Conference Proceeding/s

Chappell L, Curtin J and Hill L 1999 'Gender Audit of the Australian Journal of Political Science 1979-1999', Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Sydney.

1998

Internal Thesis

1998 'Political Opportunity Structures and Political Strategies: A Comparison of the Australian and Canadian Women's Movements', PhD.

Thesis

Chappell L 1998 'Political opportunity structures and political strategies : a comparison of the Australian and Canadian women's movements', -.

1996

Book/s

Chappell L 1996 Abolition of the states - Australia's great leap forward?.

Book Section/s

Chappell L 1996 'Athel Ford' in Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Chappell L 1996 'Louisa Brown' in Australian Dictionary of Biography.

1995

Book Section/s

Chappell L 1995 'Women's Policy' in Reform and Reversal:Lessons from the Coalition Government in new South Wales 1988-1995, ed. M. Laffin and M. Painter, MacMillan, Melbourne.