Dr. Julia Sachseder, MSc

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E-Mail: julia.sachseder@univie.ac.at

  • Principal Investigator of the ÖAW-funded research project "ClimPeace"

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Short biography

Dr. Julia Sachseder is Principal Investigator of the ClimPeace project, funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, while also holding a Visiting Professorship in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University. Her research explores how the global political economy and coloniality intersect in (re)producing or transforming political, environmental, and border violence. She further examines the roles of state, private and corporate actors in contexts of peace and conflict.

Research interests

Violence; Security; Peace and Conflict; Post- and Decolonial Theory; Political Economy; Political Ecology; Feminist Theory.

Selective bibliography

Monographs

  • 2023, Violence against Women in and beyond Conflict: The Coloniality of Violence: Routledge.
  • 2014, Practices in Transparency, University of Maastricht, DOI: 10.26481/marble.2014.v4.204

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  • 2025, Extractive Violence: The global political economy of sexual and environmental violence in Colombia. Limina (forthcoming).
  • 2025, On the (Im)Possibilities of Ethnographic Research in (Post)colonial Settings, in Diversifying and Decolonizing Research Methods, Sage Publishing, London (forthcoming).
  • 2024, Externalizing Violence through Gender and Race in European Border Security. 
  • 2024, with Saskia Stachowitsch, ‘The European Union as an Intersectionally Gendered Security Actor: Toward a Feminist Postcolonial Research Agenda’, in Handbook of Gender and Security, eds. By Annik Kronsell, Jutta Joachim and Natalia Dalmer.
  • 2024, with Madita Standke-Erdmann and Saskia Stachowitsch, Entangled Vulnerabilities: Gendered and Racialised Bodies and Borders in EU External Border Security, Geopolitics, DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2023.2291060
  • 2023, with Saskia Stachowitsch, Gendering EU Security Strategies: a Feminist Postcolonial Approach to the EU as a (global) Security Actor, European Security, 32:3, 404-424, DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2023.2232742
  • 2023, with Columba Achilleos-Sarll and Saskia Stachowitsch, The (Inter)Visual Politics of Border Security: Co-constituting Gender and Race through Frontex’s Risk Analysis. Security Dialogue, 54(4), 374-394, DOI: 10.1177/09670106231182314 
  • 2022, La economía política global de la violencia paramilitar contra las mujeres, in Del Paramilitarismo Al Paramilitarismo, Radiografía de una Paz Violenta en Colombia, Moreno, J., Alzate, L., Muggenthaler,     F., Peters, S., Oficina Region Andina, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.    
  • 2022, Corporate Peace: The role of transnational corporations in violence against women, working paper, Instituto-Colombo-Alema para la Paz, CAPAZ, CAPAZ | Working Paper: Women in the midst of armed conflict in Colombia (instituto-capaz.org)
  • 2022, with Saskia Stachowitsch and Clemens Binder, Gender, Race, and Crisis-Driven Institutional Growth: Discourses of ‘Migration Crisis’ and the Expansion Of Frontex, Journal of Ethnic and Migration     Studies, 48:19, 4670-4693, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2022.2092461
  • 2020, Cleared for Investment. The Intersections between Gender, Race and Transnational Capital in the Production of Sexual Violence and Internal Displacement in Colombia, in: International Feminist Journal of Politics. DOI: 10.1080/14616742.2019.1702473
  • 2020, with Sara Meger: Militarized Peace: A Feminist Audit of the Peace Deal in Colombia, in: Globalization. DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2020.1712765
  • 2019, with Saskia Stachowitsch: The Gendered and Racialized Politics of Risk Analysis. The Case of Frontex, in: Critical Studies on Security, online. DOI: 10.1080/21624887.2019.1644050

Peer-reviewed book chapters

  • 2025, Zur Theoretisierung von sexueller Gewalt als Kolonialität der Gewalt. In Krieg und Friedensbewegung: Feministische Perspektiven: Hrsg, B. Krondorfer & I. Voglmayer, Mandelbaum Verlag.
  • 2025, with Ana Pandal de la Peza (forthcoming), Towards a Coloniality of Non-Knowledge in the Women Peace and Security: a Conceptual Framework for Studying Security (Non)Knowledges, ed. Vol. Feminist Security Studies from the Abya Yala, Palgrave MacMillan.
  • 2023, Extractive insecurities: How dispossession shapes women’s experiences of violence in Colombia's armed conflict, in Security Studies: Critical Perspectives (SSCP). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

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