Jill Irvine is President’s Associates Presidential Professor of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is founding director of the Center for Social Justice, served as Director of Community Engagement in the Office of the Sr. Vice President and Provost and currently holds the position of Senior Vice Provost. Her teaching and research interests include social movements, political mobilization, and transnational activism, with a focus on gender. Address: Norman, Oklahoma, United States
The post-conflict transformation of gender norms in Nicaragua Following a half-century of politic... more The post-conflict transformation of gender norms in Nicaragua Following a half-century of political repression and violence in Nicaragua culminating in a decade-long civil war (1979-1990) with massive physical, social, political, and economic costs, the country began a long and at times halting process of political and economic reconstruction. Popular identification with the Sandinista program of social and economic justice along broadly socialist lines during the Sandinista National Liberation Front's (FSLN, or Frente Sandinista de la Liberación Nacional) tenure in government did not end, however, following their electoral defeat in 1990. Women's organizations in particular, including those explicitly tied to the FSLN as well as autonomous feminist organizations that also emerged during the 1980s and 1990s, continued to seek greater gender justice and equality in the post-conflict period. They drew on gains made during the Sandinista era, but also sought to end harmful or r...
Transitional Justice and Civil Society in the Balkans, 2012
Most research on transitional justice in the Balkans focuses on international mechanisms, particu... more Most research on transitional justice in the Balkans focuses on international mechanisms, particularly the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Little attention has been given to domestic responses because, until recently, there has been relatively little domestic participation and organizing around the topic of transitional justice. Our study seeks to fill this gap by examining the establishment of the Regional Truth Commission for the Former Yugoslavia (RECOM), which began officially in 2006. Using insights from social movement theory and literature on transnational advocacy networks, we identify the conditions necessary for a regional justice movement to succeed. Drawing upon interviews, survey research, as well as secondary material, we provide an interpretive analysis of RECOM, identifying the obstacles to its development, as well as the impact and role of international actors. We contend that although justice and peace are moving forward in the Balkans, ongoing dilemmas underscore important lessons about transitional justice; specifically, grassroots efforts to promote transitional justice must overcome significant challenges in defining issues, creating coalitions, and engaging the state. While international actors have thus far focused primarily on the ICTY, they can and should support grassroots efforts.
... For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. ISBN ... more ... For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. ISBN 0-312-12690-5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data State-society relations in Yugoslavia, 1945-1992 / edited by Melissa Bokovoy, Jill Irvine, and Carol Lilly. P. cm. ...
The post-conflict transformation of gender norms in Nicaragua Following a half-century of politic... more The post-conflict transformation of gender norms in Nicaragua Following a half-century of political repression and violence in Nicaragua culminating in a decade-long civil war (1979-1990) with massive physical, social, political, and economic costs, the country began a long and at times halting process of political and economic reconstruction. Popular identification with the Sandinista program of social and economic justice along broadly socialist lines during the Sandinista National Liberation Front's (FSLN, or Frente Sandinista de la Liberación Nacional) tenure in government did not end, however, following their electoral defeat in 1990. Women's organizations in particular, including those explicitly tied to the FSLN as well as autonomous feminist organizations that also emerged during the 1980s and 1990s, continued to seek greater gender justice and equality in the post-conflict period. They drew on gains made during the Sandinista era, but also sought to end harmful or r...
Transitional Justice and Civil Society in the Balkans, 2012
Most research on transitional justice in the Balkans focuses on international mechanisms, particu... more Most research on transitional justice in the Balkans focuses on international mechanisms, particularly the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Little attention has been given to domestic responses because, until recently, there has been relatively little domestic participation and organizing around the topic of transitional justice. Our study seeks to fill this gap by examining the establishment of the Regional Truth Commission for the Former Yugoslavia (RECOM), which began officially in 2006. Using insights from social movement theory and literature on transnational advocacy networks, we identify the conditions necessary for a regional justice movement to succeed. Drawing upon interviews, survey research, as well as secondary material, we provide an interpretive analysis of RECOM, identifying the obstacles to its development, as well as the impact and role of international actors. We contend that although justice and peace are moving forward in the Balkans, ongoing dilemmas underscore important lessons about transitional justice; specifically, grassroots efforts to promote transitional justice must overcome significant challenges in defining issues, creating coalitions, and engaging the state. While international actors have thus far focused primarily on the ICTY, they can and should support grassroots efforts.
... For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. ISBN ... more ... For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. ISBN 0-312-12690-5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data State-society relations in Yugoslavia, 1945-1992 / edited by Melissa Bokovoy, Jill Irvine, and Carol Lilly. P. cm. ...
This article investigates the role of women’s organizations and activists in the electoral breakt... more This article investigates the role of women’s organizations and activists in the electoral breakthroughs in Serbia and Croatia in 2000. When, how, and to what effect, it asks, did women organize during transformational moments to promote their goals of political liberalization and gender equality? I argue that political opportunities—shaped by the domestic constellation of forces and international assistance programs—are essential to explaining political success. I identify what I call the insider/inclusionary strategy that characterizes women’s organizing in Croatia and the outsider/oppositional strategy that characterizes women’s organizing in Serbia. These strategies resulted in different immediate outcomes for women’s political equality in the electoral breakthroughs in Croatia and Serbia.
Political event data has been increasingly important for researchers to study and predict global ... more Political event data has been increasingly important for researchers to study and predict global events. Until recently the majority of political events were hand-coded from text, limiting the timeliness and coverage of event data sets. Recent systems have successfully employed big data systems for extracting events from text. These automated event systems have been limited by either the slow performance or high infrastructure demands. In this work, we present a new approach to big data systems that allow for faster extractions when compared to existing systems. We describe a modular system, Biryani, that adaptively extracts events from batches of documents. We use distributed containers to process streams of incoming documents. The number of containers processing documents can be increased or reduced depending on the number of available resources. The optimal configuration for event extraction is learned, and the system adapts to maximize the throughput of coded documents. We show ...
Right wing populist parties in Europe are clearly different from other right wing parties in thei... more Right wing populist parties in Europe are clearly different from other right wing parties in their rhetoric and electoral appeal. Some observers see substantive differences between right wing populists and other right wing parties, with populists supporting the welfare state and gender equality more than other right wing parties, often as part of an anti-immigration and anti-Muslim agenda. We test this claim using novel data produced by a multilingual convolutional neural net on political party platforms for the years 1990 to 2015 from the Manifesto Corpus. We find no systematic differences between right wing populists and non-populists on support for welfare and gender equality, though there is some evidence that more successful populists are more centrist.
Although U.S. private foundations provide significant and varied kinds of support for women and g... more Although U.S. private foundations provide significant and varied kinds of support for women and girls globally, we know little about the scope of foundation giving or its effects. In what ways, we ask, has foundation funding attempted to promote the empowerment of women and girls? An important critique has emerged among scholars and practitioners that funding practices often undermine women's activism and movements. We study the empirical evidence for this critique, examining funding trends internationally in the areas of capacity building, issue framing, and coalition forming from 2002 to 2013. We argue that there are reasons for both optimism and concern. On the one hand, we find that the share of funding for organizations and issues that have a political advocacy component has held steady in the past decade. On the other hand, we find trends in the opposite direction in declining shares of funding for general operating costs, leadership training, and coalition building for gr...
pride is always a site of contentious politics, from the protest within the parade to the public’... more pride is always a site of contentious politics, from the protest within the parade to the public’s response and the state’s securitization. the militarization of prides blurs the line between marchers as normal citizens and dangerous deviants.
Machine-produced event data from news text is a cheap, accurate, and useful source of empirical d... more Machine-produced event data from news text is a cheap, accurate, and useful source of empirical data for researchers in political science. Many quantitative analyses rely on English language text rather than text in the local language. We investigate the relationship between protests in Syria and subsequent violence in Syria and demonstrate that the results are substantially different using data coded from English and Arabic news sources. Using a gold standard hand coded dataset (Mazur 2018), we find a significant effect of protests on subsequent violence in the locality. The result holds when using data coded from Arabic sources, but becomes insignificant when using English language text. These results suggest that researchers should include text from the local language when using automated text analysis to study subnational outcomes. We also offer guidance on which statistical classifiers perform best on detecting protest events in short text. While a neural net classifier using state-of-the-art BERT embeddings slightly outperforms other models and feature representations in Arabic, a simple random forest on a bag-of-words performs best in English.
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BOOKS by Jill Irvine
List of Tables and Figures ix
Preface xi
Introduction: Gendered Mobilizations and Intersectional
Challenges 1 Jill Irvine, Sabine Lang, and Celeste Montoya
PART I. INTERSECTIONALITY WITHIN GENDERED
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 23
1 The Limits and Potential of Solidarity: Activism on
Reproductive Rights in Ireland 25 Pauline Cullen
2 Feminist Policy Mobilization and Intersectional
Consciousness: The Case of Swedish Domestic Services Tax
Reform (RUT) 42 Andrea Spehar
3 The Politics of Intersectionality in Activism against Domestic
Violence in Hungary and Romania 56 Raluca Maria Popa and Andrea Krizsán
4 Counter-Intersectionality: The Politics of Conservative
Women’s NGOs in Turkey 74 Ayşe Dursun
5 Political Opportunities and Intersectional Politics in Croatia 92 Jill Irvine and Leda Sutlović
6 Intersectional and Transnational Alliances during Times of
Crisis: The European LGBT Movement 111 Phillip M. Ayoub
PART II. INTERSECTIONALITY ACROSS SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS 133
7 From Identity Politics to Intersectionality? Identity-Based
Organizing in the Occupy Movements 135 Celeste Montoya
8 Navigating Transnational Complicities: Expanding
Frameworks of Intersectionality in the Deadly Exchange
Campaign 154 Rachel H. Brown
9 Enacting Intersectional Solidarity in the Puerto Rican Student Movement 171 Fernando Tormos-Aponte
10 Activists as Political Translators? Addressing Inequality and
Positional Misunderstandings in Refugee Solidarity Coalitions 189 Nicole Doerr
11 Equality and Recognition or Transformation and Dissent? Intersectionality and the Filipino Migrants’ Movement in Canada 208 Ethel Tungohan
12 Sistas Doing It for Themselves: Black Women’s Activism and #BlackLivesMatter in the United States and France 226 Jean Beaman and Nadia E. Brown
13 Mountain Skyline? Gender Equality and Intersectionality in Supranational “Equality CSOs” 244 Petra Ahrens
References 263
Papers by Jill Irvine
List of Tables and Figures ix
Preface xi
Introduction: Gendered Mobilizations and Intersectional
Challenges 1 Jill Irvine, Sabine Lang, and Celeste Montoya
PART I. INTERSECTIONALITY WITHIN GENDERED
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 23
1 The Limits and Potential of Solidarity: Activism on
Reproductive Rights in Ireland 25 Pauline Cullen
2 Feminist Policy Mobilization and Intersectional
Consciousness: The Case of Swedish Domestic Services Tax
Reform (RUT) 42 Andrea Spehar
3 The Politics of Intersectionality in Activism against Domestic
Violence in Hungary and Romania 56 Raluca Maria Popa and Andrea Krizsán
4 Counter-Intersectionality: The Politics of Conservative
Women’s NGOs in Turkey 74 Ayşe Dursun
5 Political Opportunities and Intersectional Politics in Croatia 92 Jill Irvine and Leda Sutlović
6 Intersectional and Transnational Alliances during Times of
Crisis: The European LGBT Movement 111 Phillip M. Ayoub
PART II. INTERSECTIONALITY ACROSS SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS 133
7 From Identity Politics to Intersectionality? Identity-Based
Organizing in the Occupy Movements 135 Celeste Montoya
8 Navigating Transnational Complicities: Expanding
Frameworks of Intersectionality in the Deadly Exchange
Campaign 154 Rachel H. Brown
9 Enacting Intersectional Solidarity in the Puerto Rican Student Movement 171 Fernando Tormos-Aponte
10 Activists as Political Translators? Addressing Inequality and
Positional Misunderstandings in Refugee Solidarity Coalitions 189 Nicole Doerr
11 Equality and Recognition or Transformation and Dissent? Intersectionality and the Filipino Migrants’ Movement in Canada 208 Ethel Tungohan
12 Sistas Doing It for Themselves: Black Women’s Activism and #BlackLivesMatter in the United States and France 226 Jean Beaman and Nadia E. Brown
13 Mountain Skyline? Gender Equality and Intersectionality in Supranational “Equality CSOs” 244 Petra Ahrens
References 263