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Amanda Chisholm is a Reader at King's College London, specializing in Security Studies. Her research focuses on the privatization and decentring of global war-making, examining how gendered and racial logics sustain differences and reproduce hierarchies in the security workforce. Using ethnographic methodologies, she explores the dynamics of private military security companies (PMSCs) and their global operations. Amanda's work draws on feminist international relations and global political economy, particularly looking at themes of ethical recruitment practices within global security contexts. Her contributions have been published in prominent journals such as the International Feminist Journal of Politics, Security Dialogue, and International Political Sociology. Amanda has been awarded the Economic and Social Research Council Future Leaders Grant and actively supervises PhD students interested in feminist theory and gender in global security. Her teaching encompasses topics like masculinities, militarism, and gender in global politics.
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