Academic Work

Payne, L. A., Zulver, J., and Escoffier, S., eds (2023). The Right Against Rights in Latin America. Oxford University Press.

Zulver, J (2022). High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Women’s Mobilization in Violent Contexts. Rutgers University Press.

Zulver, J (2022). Feminismo de alto riesgo en Colombia: Movilización de mujeres en contextos violentos. Ediciones Uniandes y FESCOL.

Stallone, K., and Zulver, J. (2024). The gendered risks of defending rights in armed conflict: Evidence from Colombia. Journal of Peace Research.

This article uses the case of Colombia to evaluate the gendered risks of social leadership and human rights activism in territories governed by armed groups.

Cookson, T., Fuentes, L., Zulver, J., Nelson, A. (2023). Fit for purpose? Assessing the accessibility, theory of action, and accountability of digital technology interventions for sexual and gender-based violence prevention and response. Gender, Technology, and Development.

This paper presents the results of a scoping review of Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D) interventions designed to address sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).

Zulver, J. (2023). Complex gendered agency in Mexico: how women negotiate hierarchies of fear to search for the disappeared. European Journal of Politics and Gender.

Fear and agency are complex, interrelated and gendered phenomena for the madres buscadoras, the women searching for the disappeared in Mexico. This article investigates how the madres navigate contexts of gendered violence in Veracruz, Mexico, to engage in expressions of complex gendered agency.

Zulver, J. (2021). Asociación de Mujeres Afro por la Paz: Feminism with the Body and Face of a Woman. Latin American Perspectives.

AFROMUPAZ is an organization of displaced Afro-Colombian women now based in Bogotá. Its “feminism with a woman’s body and face” is part of the landscape of popular feminism in the region, but its specific social location and its actions cannot be understood without a deliberate and critical understanding of race.

Zulver, J. (2021). The endurance of women’s mobilization during “patriarchal backlash”: a case from Colombia’s reconfiguring armed conflict. International Feminist Journal of Politics 23(3): 440-462.

This article focuses on the Alianza de Mujeres Tejedoras de Vida, an association of women in Putumayo who mobilized for peace and women’s rights during Colombia’s armed conflict. Since 2018, however, they have been specifically targeted by armed groups for their activism and support of the peace process.

Zulver, J. (2020). How the Global Pandemic Intensifies Vulnerabilities for Colombia’s Women Leaders. Bulletin of Latin American Research 39(S1): 23-27.

Women social leaders in Colombia say that the biggest danger posed by the global pandemic comes not from contracting the virus, but rather from non-state armed groups taking advantage of the quarantine to violently pursue social and territorial control.

Zulver, J., and Idler, A. (2020). Gendering the Border Effect: the double impact of Colombian insecurity and the Venezuelan refugee crisis. Third World Quarterly.

In the Colombian–Venezuelan borderlands, the reconfiguration of armed group presence and mass migration create and reinforce conditions of high violence and risk. Against this backdrop, we ask: What are the gendered security implications of the double crisis in the borderlands?

Zulver, J. (2019). Learning from High Risk Feminism: Emergent Lessons about Women’s Agency in Conflict Contexts. Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 13(3): 21-43

This article challenges trends of gendered essentialism and critically reads genocide and atrocity crimes “from the bottom up.” It expands beyond case studies to highlight the emergent lessons of Zulver’s High Risk Feminism framework for critical genocide prevention studies.

Zulver, J. (2017). Building the City of Women: Creating a Site of Feminist Resistance in a Conflict Zone. Gender, Place, and Culture, 24(10): 1498-1516.

This article uses the case study of the League of Displaced Women, the Liga de Mujeres Desplazadas(LMD) to illustrate the utility of the High Risk Feminism framework to explain how and why women chose to build the City of Women, despite the real and threatened danger that this implied.

Zulver, J. (2016). High Risk Feminism in El Salvador: Women’s Mobilisation in Violent Times. Gender and Development, 24(2): 171-185

Despite widespread violence, Salvadoran women have created opportunities and avenues for mobilisation in defence of their safety and well-being. This article showcases these efforts, with an eye towards the various forms of agency that women adopt, create, modify, and employ to counteract fragility in their daily lives.

Masullo, J., Zulver, J., Idler, A. (2021). Community Responses to a Changing Security Landscape at the Colombia–Venezuela Border: The Case of La Guajira. Journal of Human Rights Practice: Practice Note).

This practice note takes stock of the risks that affect security conditions as perceived and experienced by communities in La Guajira, and outlines the self-protection strategies that some communities employ to respond to the changing security conditions.

Zulver, J. (2021). “Decolonial feminisms, power and place: Sentipensando with rural women in Colombia” by Laura Rodríguez Castro. Gender, Place and Culture.

Zulver, J., Cookson, T., Fuentes, L. (2021). COVID-19 and Gender Based Violence: Reflections from a ‘data for development’ project on the Colombia-Venezuela Border. International Feminist Journal of Politics: Conversations Piece.

This Conversations piece describes the Cosas de Mujeres project in Cúcuta, at the Colombia-Venezuela border. We reflect on the GBV data that we collected in real time through Cosas de Mujeres, as well as on the role of feminist research in responding to a global health crisis.

Zulver, J. (2020). Afro-Colombian Women’s Organisations in Post-Accord Colombia: Gendering and Racialising Violent Pluralism Across the Conflict Continuum in Bogotá, Colombia. Alternautas 7(1): 31-47.

This article examines the mobilisation strategies of two groups of Afro-Colombian women now living in Bogotá – AFROMUPAZ and the Colectiva Matamba – in order to add an intersectional dimension to growing calls for ongoing theories on the gender of violent pluralism (see Sandvik 2018).

Siddiqi, A., Peters, K., and Zulver, J. (2019). ‘Doble Afectación’: Living with Disasters and Conflict in Colombia. Overseas Development Institute.

Colombia’s DRR policy and practice fail to take adequate account of the conflict situation. As a result, large numbers of conflict-displaced people are highly vulnerable, with scant protection against the devastating effects of disasters.

Zulver, J. (2018). Colectiva Matamba Resists. NACLA, 50(4): 377-38

In Bogotá, a collective of Afro-Colombian women mobilizes against structural racism and oppression.