Dr Saskia Zielińska
Lecturer in Gender and Social Development
Research interests
- International development
- Women
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Biography
Dr Saskia Zielińska is a Lecturer in Gender and Social Development in the Department of International Development at King's.
Saskia completed her PhD in Development Studies at the Department of International Development in 2024 where she researched adolescent pregnancy and multi-sided violence (institutional, structural, symbolic and interpersonal) in Ayacucho, Peru. Thereafter she completed a Post-Doctoral research position with the University of Sheffield working with Dr Rebecca Ogden on the AHRC-funded project Adolescent Parenthoods in Latin America, where they collaborated with research partners in Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico to facilitate participatory arts-based research methodologies to investigate the lived experiences of adolescent mothers.
She has been teaching at King's since 2020 where she has taught on various modules including Introduction to Development Studies, the Political Economy of Development of Latin America, and History of the Global Economy. Prior to completing her PhD, she also taught at UCL and at SOAS on several modules relating to the political economy and sociology of development, as well as violence and development. She has also completed a short-term research fellowship at Queen Mary, University of London on the ARPEC Project with Dr Doreen Montag and is one of the founding members of the online publication Feminist Perspectives.
Research
- Multi-sided Violence (SGBV, Structural, Symbolic, Normalised etc)
- Adolescent Pregnancy
- Abortion
- Sexual and Reproductive Rights
- Latin America (with a focus on Peru, Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico)
- Participatory and creative qualitative research methodologies
Saskia is primarily interested in how interlinking and overlapping forms of invisibilised violence (such as structural, symbolic, and normalised violence) produce harm towards and contribute to marginalisation of different social groups, examining how these harms are invisibilised and individualised in the context of capitalist patriarchy.
For example, her PhD research explored how the conceptualisation of adolescent pregnancy in Peru as the fault of individual girls making 'bad decisions' and engaging in 'risky behaviours' masks the multiple structural contexts of violence that contribute to adolescent pregnancy in the first place, and exculpates both state and society from the responsibility of ensuring that adolescent girls and young women can freely enjoy their sexual and reproductive rights.
Teaching
Undergraduate
- 4YYD0002 History of the Global Economy
Postgraduate
- 6YYD0002 Gender, Society and Development
- 7YYDN035 Topics in the Analysis of Emerging Economics
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Research
Gender Studies at King's
Bringing together like-minded scholars and students from across King's to examine the influence of gender relations..
Creative Contestations and Social Justice research group
This research group is concerned with social justice – spanning questions of equity and fairness, rights, accountabilities, participation, and inclusion. Our group members have a shared orientation towards critical scholarship and activism, and are committed to creative and interdisciplinary approaches.
Global Capitalism, Power & Uneven Development research group
We study the many ways in which the world-system unevenly constrains and drives development everywhere, with its persistent structural hierarchies, dependencies, contradictions, and unequal power relations between classes, ethnicities, genders, races, and states.
Events
'Abortion at the Borderlines' conference
Feminist Perspectives, in collaboration with the Gender Studies Network at King's College, London, is excited to announce the ‘Abortion at the Borderlines’...
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
Aggressors at Home and within the State: Sexual and Reproductive Rights Violations of Women and Girls during the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru
In Peru, the bodies of women, girls and adolescents have long been sites of sexual violence and patriarchal control.
Research
Gender Studies at King's
Bringing together like-minded scholars and students from across King's to examine the influence of gender relations..
Creative Contestations and Social Justice research group
This research group is concerned with social justice – spanning questions of equity and fairness, rights, accountabilities, participation, and inclusion. Our group members have a shared orientation towards critical scholarship and activism, and are committed to creative and interdisciplinary approaches.
Global Capitalism, Power & Uneven Development research group
We study the many ways in which the world-system unevenly constrains and drives development everywhere, with its persistent structural hierarchies, dependencies, contradictions, and unequal power relations between classes, ethnicities, genders, races, and states.
Events
'Abortion at the Borderlines' conference
Feminist Perspectives, in collaboration with the Gender Studies Network at King's College, London, is excited to announce the ‘Abortion at the Borderlines’...
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
Aggressors at Home and within the State: Sexual and Reproductive Rights Violations of Women and Girls during the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru
In Peru, the bodies of women, girls and adolescents have long been sites of sexual violence and patriarchal control.