Henry, Marsha


Dr Marsha Henry  

Department

Position held

Gender Institute

Lecturer in Gender, Development and Globalisation

Experience keywords:

reproductive technologies; gender; development; South Asia and South Asian Diaspora; militarisation; peacekeeping; representation; security

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Marsha Henry’s research interests focus on three main areas: gender, 'race' and health; gender, development and militarisation; and feminist, diasporic and qualitative methodologies. Her doctoral research focused on reproductive decision-making amongst middle-class women in India and her postdoctoral research was concerned with immigration medical exams in Canada. Over the past five years, she has concentrated on examining the social experience of living and working in peacekeeping missions. Her future research interests are to explore the experiences of female peacekeepers from the Global South. For a number of years she has been thinking and writing about the fieldwork challenges faced by the 'unconventional' researcher.

Dr Henry has a STICERD Small Grant (2011-2012) for 'Engendering Peacekeeping: The Experiences of Indian Women Peacekeepers'.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Policy and Regulatory Bodies

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Liberia; Haiti; India; Kosovo; Cyprus

Languages:

French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6247

Publications

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2013

Henry, Marsha and Higate, Paul (2013) Peacekeeping power practices and women's insecurity in Haiti. In: Stephenson, Max and Zanotti, Laura, (eds.) Building wallsand dissolving borders: the challenges of alterity, community and securitizing space. Ashgate, Farnham, UK, pp. 133-153. ISBN 9781409438359

Henry, Marsha (2013) Sexual exploitation and abuse in peacekeeping missions: reconceptualising agency and gender relations. In: Phillips, Anne and Wilson, Kalpana and Madhok, Sumi, (eds.) Gender, agency, and coercion . Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780230300323

2012

Henry, Marsha (2012) Peacexploitation?: interrogating labor hierarchies and global sisterhood among Indian and Uruguayan female peacekeepers. Globalizations, 9 (1). pp. 15-33. ISSN 1474-7731

2011

Higate, Paul and Henry, Marsha (2011) Militarising spaces: a geographical exploration of Cyprus. In: Kirsch, Scott and Flint, Colin , (eds.) Reconstructing conflict: integrating war and post-war geographies. Ashgate, London, UK. ISBN 9781409404705

2010

Higate, Paul and Henry, Marsha (2010) Space, performance and everyday security in the peacekeeping context. International peacekeeping, 17 (1). pp. 32-48. ISSN 1353-3312

2009

Henry, Marsha and Higate, Paul and Sanghera, Gurchathen (2009) Positionality and power: the politics of peacekeeping research. International peacekeeping, 16 (4). pp. 467-482. ISSN 1353-3312

Higate, Paul and Henry, Marsha (2009) Insecure spaces: peacekeeping, power and performance in Haiti, Kosovo and Liberia. Zed Books Ltd., London, UK. ISBN 9781842778869

2007

Henry, Marsha (2007) Gender, security and development. Conflict, security & development, 7 (1). pp. 61-84. ISSN 1467-8802

Henry, Marsha (2007) If the shoe fits: authenticity, authority and agency feminist diasporic research. Women's studies international forum, 30 (1). pp. 70-80. ISSN 0277-5395

2005

Henry, Marsha (2005) Knowledge crossing borders: images of South Asian women in newspaper reporting on sex-selection practices. In: Thobani, Sunera and Hellwig, Tineke , (eds.) Asian women: interconnections . Women's Press , Toronto, Canada. ISBN 9780889614574

2004

Higate, Paul and Henry, Marsha (2004) Engendering (in)security in peace support operations. Security dialogue, 35 (4). pp. 481-498. ISSN 1460-3640

Thapar-Bjorkert, Suruchi and Henry, Marsha (2004) Reassessing the research relationship: location, position and power in fieldwork accounts. International journal of social research methodology, 7 (5). pp. 363-381. ISSN 1364-5579

2003

Henry, Marsha (2003) Where are you really from?: representation, identity and power in the fieldwork experiences of a South Asian diasporic. Qualitative research, 3 (2). pp. 229-242. ISSN 1468-7941

Henry, Marsha (2003) Investing in mothering: reproduction, sex-selective technologies and biological capital in an Indian case study. In: Bendelow, Gillian and Birke, Lynda and Williams , Simon , (eds.) Debating biology. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 185-197. ISBN 9780415279024

1997

Birke, L. and Henry, Marsha (1997) Women's studies, science and technology. In: Robinson , Victoria and Richardson, Diane , (eds.) Introducing women's studies . Palgrave Macmillan , London, UK, pp. 220-238. ISBN 9780333684696

1996

Birke, L. and Henry, Marsha (1996) The blackhole: women's studies, science and technology. In: Robinson, Victoria and Richardson, Diane , (eds.) Introducing women's studies: feminist theory and practice. New York University Press, New York, USA, pp. 220-238. ISBN 9780814774946

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