Dr Jennifer Bates

Biography

Jennifer is a Research Associate in the Department of War Studies, working on the project, Mapping Injury, led by Professor Vivienne Jabri, and selected by the ERC Advanced, funded by the UKRI Horizon Europe Guarantee. The project investigates ‘injury’ in its multiple sites and manifestations in the Global South, and its impact on political agency and global mechanisms of response. Jennifer’s research on the project focuses on Colombia.

Jennifer holds a BSc in Spanish and Politics from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics. She wrote her ESRC-funded PhD on the feminist politics and agency of female ex-combatants from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London (KCL). During her PhD she also worked as a co-editor of KCL’s Feminist Perspectives blog and a research assistant on the Erasmus+ funded project ‘ARTHEWE Multiform Pedagogy in Arts, Health and Well-being Education.’ Her research focus in the Mapping Injury project is on the politics of injury relating to indigenous communities in Colombia.

Research interests:

• Colombian politics
• Feminist activism and theories
• Gender, conflict and peacebuilding

Publications:

• Bates, J. (2024) ‘Challenging multiple oppressions: Situating the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia’s (FARC) insurgent feminism within Andean feminisms.’ In: Martin, P. and Irons, R. (eds). Decolonising Andean Identities: Andinxs, Activism and Social Change. London: UCL Press.
• Flavin, M. and Bates, J. (2023). A Literature Review of Arts in Healthcare Education and Practice, 2000-2022. ARTHEWE: Multiform Pedagogy in Arts, Healthcare and Wellbeing. https://arthewe.turkuamk.fi/yleinen/article-a-literature-review-of-arts-in-healthcare-education-and-practice-2000-2022/
• Bates, J. (2022) ‘The violence of norms: resisting repertoires of gender violence in post-conflict Colombia.’ Journal of Gender Studies, 31 (2), 153-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2020.1855130