Cynthia Cockburn Explained

Cynthia Cockburn
Birth Date:24 July
Nationality:British
Workplaces:City University London (visiting professor), University of Warwick (honorary professor)
Notable Ideas:antimilitarism, gender democracy

Cynthia Cockburn (1934 – 2019)[1] [2] was a British academic, feminist, and peace activist.

Career

Cockburn was a researcher in the fields of gender, war and peace-making, labour processes and trade unionism, and refugees. She was active in the international women's peace movement.[3]

Cockburn was a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at City University London and honorary professor in the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick.[4] [5]

An active antimilitarist, she was involved in a number of peace and anti-war organisations. In 1981, she was part of a group of women who founded Women Against War in the Gulf, and in response to the Bosnian Yugoslav wars, the group evolved to become Women Against War Crime. From 1993, they began calling the group Women in Black in support of other international peace movement efforts, specifically those taking place in Israel, Italy, and Yugoslavia.[6] She was also involved with Women Against Fundamentalism, the European Forum of Socialist Feminists,[7] and was a member of the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom.[8]

As both an academic and activist, Cockburn presented talks at a number of conferences. In May 2017, she was honoured at the Gender and Peace Conference in Istanbul, and presented the keynote address.[9] [10]

Cockburn was selected to be featured in the British Library project, 'Sisterhood and After', an oral history archive of feminists active in the 1970–1980s.

On 14 October 2017, the journal Feminist Review celebrated Cockburn's contribution to feminist scholarship by co-hosting an event with the SOAS Centre for Gender Studies and provided free access to a number of her published articles.[11]

Cockburn was widely published in academic journals, including in Feminist Review,[12] Gender & Development,[13]  Journal of Classical Sociology,[14] Peace in Process.[15] She also wrote for The Guardian,[16] [17] Red Pepper,[18] Peace News,[19] IndyMedia UK,[20] and OpenDemocracy.[21]

Publications

Cockburn published a number of academic books including:

Publications by Cockburn have been translated into German, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Georgian, Bosnian, Serbo-Croat, Bulgarian, Greek, Spanish, Korean, and Catalan.[22]

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Al-Ali . Nadje . 2019-09-24 . Cynthia Cockburn obituary . 2024-01-15 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  2. News: Fredsaktivisten och feministen Cynthia Cockburn är död. Valdés. Ana. 17 September 2019. Ny Tid. 17 September 2019. sv. https://web.archive.org/web/20191019062023/https://www.nytid.fi/2019/09/fredsaktivisten-och-feministen-cynthia-cockburn-ar-dod/. 19 October 2019. dead.
  3. News: Looking to London. Pluto Press. 24 November 2017. en-US.
  4. Web site: People - Department of Sociology. University of Warwick. en-GB. 24 November 2017.
  5. Web site: Cynthia Cockburn. WILPF. en-US. 24 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034020/http://wilpf.org/wilpf_academic/cynthia-cockburn/. 1 December 2017. dead.
  6. Web site: Cynthia Cockburn discusses Women in Black. The British Library. en. 24 November 2017. 8 December 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191208180155/https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/cynthia-cockburn-women-in-black. dead.
  7. Web site: Cynthia Cockburn. The British Library. en. 24 November 2017. 8 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160408063229/http://www.bl.uk/people/cynthia-cockburn. dead.
  8. Web site: Academics. WILPF. en-US. 24 November 2017.
  9. Web site: Gender & Peace Conference, 6-7 May 2017, Istanbul. Sabanci University. en. 24 November 2017.
  10. Web site: Cynthia Cockburn's Keynote Speech at Gender and Peace Conference in Istanbul, May 2017. YouTube. 24 November 2017.
  11. Web site: Celebrating Cynthia Cockburn. Feminist Review palgrave. 24 November 2017. 1 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171201040035/http://www.palgrave.com/us/journal/41305/volumes-issues/collection-celebrating-cynthia-cockburn. dead.
  12. Cockburn. Cynthia. 2013. what became of 'frontline feminism'? a retroperspective on post-conflict Belfast. 24571901. Feminist Review. 105. 105. 103–121. 10.1057/fr.2013.20.
  13. Cockburn. Cynthia. 12 November 2013. War and security, women and gender: an overview of the issues. Gender & Development. 21. 3. 433–452. 10.1080/13552074.2013.846632.
  14. Cockburn. Cynthia. 29 May 2012. Who are "we"?', asks one of us. Journal of Classical Sociology. 12. 2. 205–219. 10.1177/1468795X12441963.
  15. Cockburn. Cynthia. February 2015. Transversal Politics: a practice of Peace. Peace in Process. 22. 24 November 2017. 22 January 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200122052814/http://www.icip-perlapau.cat/numero22/articles_centrals/article_central_1/. dead.
  16. Web site: Cynthia Cockburn. The Guardian. 24 November 2017.
  17. News: Domestic violence must be about prevention as well as protection. 27 February 2014. The Guardian. 24 November 2017. en-GB. 0261-3077.
  18. Web site: Guerrilla woolfare. Cockburn. Cynthia. 15 July 2014. Red Pepper. en-US. 24 November 2017.
  19. Web site: Cockburn, Cynthia, Peace News. www.peacenews.info. en. 24 November 2017.
  20. Web site: The Trials of Pinar Selek. Cockburn. Cynthia. UK Indymedia. en. 24 November 2017.
  21. Web site: Cynthia Cockburn. openDemocracy. en. 24 November 2017.
  22. Web site: Bibliography. Cynthia Cockburn. 24 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171201041048/http://www.cynthiacockburn.org/notowar/publications.html. 1 December 2017. dead.

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