Dr. Gillian Wylie

Dr. Gillian Wylie

Associate Professor, School of Religion

Head of School, School of Religion School Office

http://people.tcd.ie/wylieg

Biography

I am originally for Scotland - where I did my studies in Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen. In 2001 I became a full time lecturer on the M.Phil in International Peace Studies. As well as teaching on the M.Phil in International Peace Studies, I co-ordinate our School's PG Diploma in Conflict and Dispute Resolution Studies and supervise a large number of masters and doctoral students - particularly in the field of gender, conflict and peace. My research specialism lies in human trafficking, the politics of international migration, globalization and gender issues. I am an editorial board member of the Journal of Human Trafficking (Taylor and Francis). I have served as my School's Director of Postgraduate Teaching and Learning and as the Head of Discipline in the Irish School of Ecumenics in recent years. I am committed to civic engagement, particularly the issue of how universities respond to refugees facing crisis in Europe.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Dong Jin Kim, David Mitchell, and Gillian Wylie, Peace and Conflict in a Changing World: Key Issues in Peace Studies, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024Book, 2024, DOI
  • Representing Human Trafficking as Gendered Violence: Doing Cultural Violence in, editor(s)Caroline Williamson Sinalo and Nicoletta Mandolini , Representing Gender Based Violence: Global Perspectives, London, Plagrave, 2023, pp69 - 88, [Gillian Wylie]Book Chapter, 2023
  • Jagoe, C., Toh, P.Y.N., Wylie, G., Disability and the Risk of Vulnerability to Human Trafficking: An Analysis of Case Law, Journal of Human Trafficking, 2022Journal Article, 2022, DOI
  • Irish Journal of Sociology, 28, 3, (2020), 255 - 348p, Fitzgerald, S. O'Neill, M, and Wylie, G., [eds.]Journal, 2020
  • Fitzgerald, Sharron; O'Neill, Maggie; Wylie, Gillian, Social justice for sex workers as a 'politics of doing': Research, policy and practice, Irish Journal of Sociology, 28, (3), 2020, p257 - 279Journal Article, 2020
  • Fitzgerald, Sharron A;O' Neill, Maggie;Wylie, Gillian, Guest editors' introduction, Irish Journal of Sociology, 28, (3), 2020, p255 - 256Journal Article, 2020
  • Peacebuilding in response to migration: From securitization to peace in the context of the crisis for migrants in Europe in, editor(s)Sean Byrne, Thomas Matyok, Imani Michelle Scott , Companion to Peace and Conflict Studies, London, Routledge, 2020, pp291 - 300, [Gillian Wylie]Book Chapter, 2020
  • Sian Maseko, Grainne Kilcullen, Amiera Sawas, Gillian Wylie, GBV Programming in Contexts Affected by Conflict: A Learning Paper, Dublin, July, 2018, 1-47Report, 2018
  • Wylie, G,, Moving Beyond the Exclusionary Politics of Migration: A Response from the Social Sciences, Biblical Interpretation, 26, (4), 2018, p544 - 553Journal Article, 2018
  • Gillian Wylie, Review of The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict, by NiAoilain, F., Cahn, N., Haynes, D. and Valji, N. , International Journal of the Red Cross, 99, (3), 2017, p1181-1185Review, 2017
  • Ward, Eilis and Wylie, Gillian, Feminism, Prostitution and the State: the Politics of Neo-Abolitionism, London, Routledge, 2017, 1 - 162ppBook, 2017, URL
  • Gillian Wylie, The International Politics of Human Trafficking, London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2016, 1 - 192ppBook, 2016, URL
  • Eilis Ward and Gillian Wylie, 'Reflexivities of discomfort': Researching the Sex Trade and sex Trafficking in Ireland, European Journal of Women's Studies, 2014, p251 - 263Journal Article, 2014
  • Siobhan Clarke, Gillian Wylie and Hans Zomer, 'ICT 4 the MDGs? A Perspective on ICTs Role in Addressing Urban Poverty in the Context of the Millennium Development Goals' , Information Technology and International Development , 9, (4), 2013, p55 - 70Journal Article, 2013
  • Human Waste? Reading Bauman's Wasted Lives in the Context of Ireland's Globalization in, editor(s)Louis Brennan , Enacting Globalization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on International Integration, Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan, 2013, pp57 - 66, [Gillian Wylie]Book Chapter, 2013
  • Ward, Eilis and Wylie, Gillian, Researching the Nature and Extent of Human Trafficking in Ireland, The Protection Project: Journal of Human Rights and Civil Society, 5, 2012, p59 - 72Journal Article, 2012
  • Eilis Ward and Gillian Wylie, What Colour is Grey? Researching Trafficking against the Discursive Grain, Incorporating Human Trafficking in Academic Institutions: The European Experience A Regional Conference , University of Amsterdam, 25-26 November, 2011, 2011Conference Paper, 2011
  • Deirdre Coghlan and Gillian Wylie, Defining Trafficking/Denying Justice: Forced Labour in Ireland and the Consequences of Trafficking Discourse, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37, (9), 2011, p1513 - 1526Journal Article, 2011
  • Speaking with a Forked Tongue: Contrary Political Discourses and the Irish State's Construction of Human Trafficking in, editor(s)Christien van den Anker and Ilse van Liempt , Human rights and labour migration: the wider context of trafficking for forced labour, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2011, pp129 - 144, [Deirdre Coghlan and Gillian Wylie]Book Chapter, 2011
  • Gillian Wylie and Penny McRedmond, Human Trafficking in Europe: Character, Causes, Consequences, 1, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2010, 1 - 310ppBook, 2010
  • Trafficking in Women, Networks of Knowledge and the Cultural Construction of Europe in, editor(s)Jürgen Barkhoff and Helmut Eberhart (eds.) , Networking across Borders and Frontiers. Demarcation and Connectedness in European Culture and Society., Bern, Peter Lang, 2009, pp155 - 168, [Gillian Wylie]Book Chapter, 2009
  • Trafficking in Human Beings, Roland Robertson Jan Aart Scholte, Encyclopaedia of Globalisation, 1, London, Routledge, 2007, [Gillian Wylie]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2007
  • Beyond the Performance of 'Sex Wars': The Trafficking-Migration Debate nad Global Anti-Trafficking Networks in, editor(s)Karen Fricker and Ronit Lentin , Performing Global Networks, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, pp105 - 120, [Gillian Wylie]Book Chapter, 2007
  • Gillian Wylie, Securing States or Securing People? Human Trafficking and Security Dilemmas, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Revue, 95, (377), 2006, p7 - 18Journal Article, 2006
  • Doing the Impossible: Collecting Data on the Extent of Human Trafficking in, editor(s)Christien Van den Anker Jeroen Doomernick , Trafficking and Women's Rights, Basingstoke, Palgrave, MacMillan, 2006, [Gillian Wylie]Book Chapter, 2006
  • Wylie G., Women's Rights and 'Righteous War': An Argument for Women's Autonomy in Afghanistan, Feminist Theory, 4, (2), 2003, p217 - 223Journal Article, 2003
  • Wylie G., Challenging the State Socialist Order: A New Social Movement in Poland, East European Politics and Societies, 15, (3), 2001, p698 - 721Journal Article, 2001
  • Wylie G, Social Movements And International Change: The Case Of "Détente From Below", Journal of International Peace Studies, 4, 1999, p61 - 82Journal Article, 1999

Research Expertise

My research encompasses two distinct and inter-related areas - human trafficking and the gendering of violence and peace. Critical trafficking studies is a growing field internationally and I am to the fore in shaping this area. Critical trafficking studies question the way knowledge of human trafficking is constructed, political responses to trafficking and the collateral damage to migrants these responses do. In 'The International Politics of Human Trafficking' (Palgrave 2016) and 'Feminism, Prostitution and the State' (Routledge 2017), I contribute to this by analysing the gendered politics of anti-trafficking norm formation at global (UN), regional (EU) and local (Irish) levels. In these and subsequent publications, I demonstrate that the criminalisation of trafficking by states and the 'victim/rescue' discourses of NGOs further the contemporary securitization of migration, to the detriment of exploited migrants. International recognition of my work includes membership of the editorial boards of the Journal of Human Trafficking and Frontiers: Society and Social Change. My second major research strand explores the gendering of violence and peace. My 2016-18 IRC New Foundations Grant with NGO partner Christian Aid Ireland researched 'responding to gender-based violence in contexts affected by conflict'. The learning from this research stressed the importance of an 'ecological' approach to GBV (from the personal to the political). The research has direct and important impacts, being used by the partner NGO to address GBV through programming in Zimbabwe and Myanmar. My expertise in the gendering of violence and peace is deployed as gender advisor to two H2020 projects on radicalisation, violent extremism and community resilience, PERICLES (2016-19) and PAVE (2019-2022). I co-curate a dissemination spin-off from PERICLES, Genderhub, a public engagement website of blogs and e-resources on the gendering of extremism. Forthcoming output from PAVE will provide innovative research and policy insights on gender, radicalisation, violence and peacebuilding.

Recognition

  • Member of Political Studies Association of Ireland present
  • Member of Conflict Research Society present
  • Irish Sex Work Research Network (founding Board member) present
  • Irish Peace and Conflict Experts Network present