Nicola Pratt

Biographie

Nicola Pratt est professeure associée au département d’études politiques et internationales de l’University of Warwick. Ses recherches portent sur la politique internationale du Moyen-Orient, avec un intérêt particulier pour les approches féministes et les ‘politiques ascendantes’. Ses travaux ont été publiés entre autres dans International Studies Quarterly, Third World Quarterly et Review of International Studies. Elle est co-auteur (avec Nadje Al-Ali) de What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq (University of California Press, 2009) et co-directrice avec Al-Ali de Women and War in the Middle East (2009), et co-directrice de Gender, Governance and International Security (2013, avec Sophie Richter-Devroe) et deRethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance: Lessons from the Arab World (2015, avec Maha El Said et Lena Meari).

De 2010 à 2013, elle a été co-directrice d’un partenariat de recherche avec l’Institute for Women’s Studies de l’Université de Birzeit, financé par la British Academy. En 2013-2014, elle a reçu une bourse de mi-carrière de la British Academy pour mener des travaux de recherche sur l’histoire de l’activisme des femmes en Egypte, au Liban et en Jordanie, et elle prépare une monographie qui sera publiée chez University of California Press.

Elle dirige actuellement un nouveau projet de recherche, financé par l’AHRC, portant sur la politique et la culture populaire en Egypte. Elle siège au Council for British Research à la commission Levant, ainsi qu’au comité de rédaction d’University of Edinburgh Press pour la série Critical Military Studies. .

Publications

Adra, Najwa, Nadje Al-Ali, Sana Farhat, Danièle Joly, Pénélope Larzillière, and Nicola Pratt. “Women, Violence and Exiting from Violence with a Gendered Approach: MENA Region and Diaspora.” Paris: FMSH, 2020.
Chilmeran, Yasmin, and Nicola Pratt. “The Geopolitics of Social Reproduction and Depletion: The Case of Iraq and Palestine.” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 26, no. 4 (2019): 586–607.
Ali, Nadje Sadig al-, and Nicola Pratt. “Researching Women in Post-Invasion Iraq: Negotiating ‘truths’ and Deconstructing Dominant Discourses.” Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 2008, 193–214.
Ali, Nadje Sadig al-, and Nicola Pratt. “The United States, the Iraqi Women’s Diaspora and Women’s Empowerment in Iraq.” In Women and War in the Middle East : Transnational Perspectives, by Nadje Sadig al-Ali and Nicola Pratt, 65–98. London ; New York: Zed Books, 2009.
Ali, Nadje Sadig al-, and Nicola Pratt. “Gendering War and Transnationalism in the Middle East.” by Nadje Sadig al-Ali and Nicola Pratt, 253–69. Zed Books, 2009.
Ali, Nadje Sadig al-, and Nicola Pratt. “Conspiracy of Near Silence: Violence Against Iraqi Women.” Middle East Report 41, no. 258 (2011): 34–48.
Ali, Nadje Sadig al-, and Nicola Pratt. “Between Nationalism and Women’s Rights : The Kurdish Women’s Movement in Iraq.” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 4, no. 3 (2011): 339–55.
Voller, Yaniv, Nadje Sadig al-Ali, and Nicola Pratt. “What Kind of Liberation: Women and the Occupation of Iraq.” Millennium 40, no. 1 (2011): 210–11.
Pratt, Nicola, and Dina Rezk. “Securitizing the Muslim Brotherhood, Legitimizing State Violence and Renewing Authoritarianism in Post-Arab Spring Egypt.” Security Dialogue, 2018.
Pratt, Nicola, and Dina Rezk. “Securitizing the Muslim Brotherhood: State Violence and Authoritarianism in Egypt after the Arab Spring.” Security Dialogue, 2019.
Pratt, Nicola, and Sophie Richter-Devroe. “Configurations of Post-Conflict: Impacts of Representations of Conflict and Post-Conflict upon the (Political) Translations of Gender Security within UNSCR 1325.” In Gender, Governance and International Security, 120–37. London: Routledge, 2014.
Pratt, Nicola, and Sophie Richter-Devroe. “Introduction: Critically Examining UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.” In Gender, Governance and International Security, 15–29. London: Routledge, 2014.
Pratt, Nicola. “7. Human Rights NGOs and the ‘“Foreign Funding Debate”’ in Egypt.” In Human Rights in the Arab World, edited by Anthony Chase and Amr Hamzawy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Al-Ali, Nadje, and Nicola Pratt. “Women’s Organizing and the Conflict in Iraq since 2003.” Feminist Review 88, no. 1 (2008): 74–85.
Pratt, Nicola. “The Queen Boat Case in Egypt: Sexuality, National Security and State Sovereignty.” Review of International Studies 33, no. 01 (2007): 129–44.
Pratt, Nicola. “Political-Social Movements: Community-Based: Arab World.” In Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, edited by Suad Joseph. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
Pratt, Nicola. “Identity, Culture and Democratization: The Case of Egypt.” New Political Science 27, no. 1 (2005): 69–86.
Pratt, Nicola. “Human Rights NGO’s and the ‘Foreign Funding Debate’ in Egypt.” In Human Rights in the Arab World, edited by Anthony Tirado-Chase and Amr Hamzawy, 114–26. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Ali, Nadje Sadig al-, and Nicola Pratt. “Women in Iraq: Beyond the Rhetoric.” Middle East Report, no. 239 (2006): 18.
Pratt, Nicola, and Nadje Sadig al-Ali. “Iraq: A Failing State?” In Politics in the Developing World, edited by Peter J Burnell, Vicky Randall, and Lise Rakner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Pratt, Nicola. “A Response to Afiya Zia’s Call for Prioritising Gender.” Critical Studies on Terrorism 6, no. 2 (2013): 334–35.
Ali, Nadje Sadig al-, and Nicola Pratt. “Women’s Organizing and the Conflict in Iraq since 2003.” Feminist Review, no. 88 (2008): 74–85.
Pratt, Nicola. “Informal Enterprise and Street Trading: A Civil Society and Urban Management Perspective.” In Contested Space, edited by Alison Brown, 37–54. Practical Action Publishing, 2006.
Bird, Kate, and Nicola Pratt. “Fracture Points in Social Policies for Chronic Poverty Reduction.” SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004.
Ali, Nadje Sadig al-, and Nicola Pratt. “Introduction: Women and War in the Middle East: Transnational Perspectives.” In Women and War in the Middle East : Transnational Perspectives, edited by Nadje Sadig al-Ali and Nicola Pratt, 1–31. London ; New York: Zed Books, 2009.
Pratt, Nicola, and Sophie Richter-Devroe. “Feminist Knowledge and Emerging Governmentality in UN Peacekeeping: Patterns of Co-Optation and Empowerment.” In Gender, Governance and International Security, 138–59. London: Routledge, 2014.
Pratt, Nicola, and Sophie Richter-Devroe. Gender, Governance and International Security. London: Routledge, 2014.
Pratt, Nicola. “Iraqi Women and UNSCR 1325 : An Interview with Sundus Abbas, Director of the Iraqi Women’s Leadership Institute, Baghdad, January 2011.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 13, no. 4 (2012): 612–15.
Pratt, Nicola. “Palestinian Women and the Right to Rights.” The International Journal of Human Rights, no. 8 (2011): 1378–82.
Ali, Nadje Sadig al-, and Nicola Pratt. “Conclusion : Gendering War and Transnationalism in the Middle East.” In Women and War in the Middle East : Transnational Perspectives, edited by Nadje Sadig al-Ali and Nicola Pratt, 253–69. London ; New York: Zed Books, 2009.
Pratt, Nicola. “The ‘Arab Spring’ and the Israel-Palestine Conflict : Settler Colonialism and Resistance in the Midst of Geopolitical Upheavals.” Ortadoğu Etütleri 5, no. 1 (2013): 9–40.
Pratt, Nicola. The Legacy of the Corporatist State: Explaining Workers’ Responses to Economic Liberalisation in Egypt. Durham: Univ. Libr., 1998.
Ali, Nadje Sadig al-, and Nicola Pratt. “Conspiracy of near Silence : Violence against Iraqi Women.” In People Power: Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, edited by Christopher J Toensing and Middle East Research & Information Project. Washington DC: Middle East Research & Information Project, 2011.
Pratt, Nicola. “Maintaining the Moral Economy: Egyptian State—Labor Relations in an Era of Economic Liberalization.” The Arab Studies Journal 8/9, no. 2/1 (2000): 111–29.
Pratt, Nicola. “Book Review: The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora.” Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 35, no. 1 (2001): 128–29.
Pratt, Nicola. “Book Review: Forcing Freedom: Political Control of Privatization and Economic Opening in Egypt and Tunisia.” Middeaststudasbu Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 40, no. 1 (2006): 112–13.
Pratt, Nicola. “Women in Iraq: The Gender Impact of International Sanctions by Yasmin Husein Al-Jawaheri.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 5, no. 2 (2009): 101–4.
Pratt, Nicola. “A Response to Marina Ottaway’s Review of ‘Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Arab World (Ijmes 40 [2008]: 501-503).’” Intejmiddeaststu International Journal of Middle East Studies 41, no. 4 (2009): 709.
Pratt, Nicola. “Yasmin Husein Al-JawaheriWomen in Iraq: The Gender Impact of International Sanctions.” jmiddeastwomstud Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 5, no. 2 (2009): 101–4.
Pratt, Nicola. Globalization and Post-Colonial State: Human Rights NGOs and the Prospects for Democratic Governance in Egypt. University of Exeter, 2001.
Pratt, Nicola, and Simon Petermann. “Democracy & Authoritarianism in the Arab World.” Études internationales. 39, no. 1 (2008): 190.
Pratt, Nicola. Publisher Statement: None Bringing Politics Back In: Examining the Link between Globalization and Democratization, 2004.
Ali, Nadje Sadig al-, and Nicola Pratt. “Positionalities, Intersectionalities, and Transnational Feminism in Researching Women in Post-Inasion Iraq.” In Researching War: Feminist Methods, Ethics and Politics, edited by Annick T. R. Wibben, 76–91. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016.
Pratt, Nicola. “Iraq’s Triple Challenge : State, Nation, and Democracy.” In Politics in the Developing World (3rd Edition), edited by Peter J. Burnell, Vicky Randall, and Lise Rakner, 406–16. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Ali, Nadje Sadig al-, and Nicola Pratt. “Gender, Protest and Political Transition in the Middle East and North Africa.” In Handbook on Gender in World Politics, edited by Jill Steans and Daneila Tepe-Belfrage, 127–36. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2016.
Pratt, Nicola. “After the 25 January Revolution : Democracy or Authoritarianism in Egypt?” In Revolutionary Egypt: Connecting Domestic and International Struggles, edited by Reem Abou-El-Fadl, 43–82. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015.
Ali, Nadje Sadig al-, and Nicola Pratt. “Researching Women in Post-Invasion Iraq: Negotiating ‘Truth’ and Deconstructing Dominant Discourses.” Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies 8, no. 1–2 (2006): 193–214.
Pratt, Nicola, and Sophie Richter-Devroe. “Critically Examining UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 13, no. 4 (2011): 489–503.
Pratt, Nicola. “Palestinian Women and the Right to Rights.” The International Journal of Human Rights 15, no. 8 (2011): 1378–82.
Pratt, Nicola. “Weaponising Feminism for the ‘War on Terror’, versus Employing Strategic Silence.” Critical Studies on Terrorism 6, no. 2 (August 1, 2013): 327–31.
Pratt, Nicola. “Reconceptualizing Gender, Reinscribing Racial-Sexual Boundaries in International Security : The Case of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on ‘Women, Peace and Security.’” International Studies Quarterly 57, no. 4 (2013): 772–83.
Pratt, Nicola. “Review of The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran by Osanloo, A.” Journal of Gender Studies 19, no. 4 (2010): 405–6.
Pratt, Nicola. “Review of UK Women in Iraq : The Gender Impact of International Sanctions, by Al-Jawaheri, Y. H.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 5, no. 2 (2008).
Pratt, Nicola. “Gendering Political Reconstruction in Iraq.” University of East Anglia, 2005.
Pratt, Nicola. “Review of Nimo’s War, Emma’s War : Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War, by Enloe, C.” The Middle East Journal 65, no. 1 (2010): 148–49.
Pratt, Nicola. “Debating the Future of the Arab Revolutions in Cairo : Democracy, Imperialism and Neoliberalism.” Arab Studies Institute, June 29, 2011.
Pratt, Nicola. “Informal Enterprise and Street Trading: A Civil Society and Urban Management Perspective.” In Contested Space: Street Trading, Public Space & Livelihoods in Developing Cities, edited by Alison Brown, 37–56. ITDG Publishing, 2006.
Allison, Katherine, and Nicola Pratt. “The ‘War on Terror’:10 Years of Feminist Engagement.” Critical Studies on Terrorism 6, no. 2 (2013): 312.
Pratt, Nicola. “Understanding Political Transformation in Egypt.” Journal of Mediterranean Studies 14 (1/2) (2004): 237–62.
Pratt, Nicola. “Maintaining the Moral Economy: Egyptian State-Labour Relations in an Era of Economic Liberalization.” Arab Studies Journal 8 (2) (2001): 111–29.
Pratt, Nicola. “Bringing Politics Back in: Examining the Link between Globalization and Democratization.” Review of International Political Economy 11 (2), no. 10.1080/0969229042000249831 (2004): 311–36.
Pratt, Nicola. “Iraqi Women and UNSCR 1325:An Interview with Sundus Abbas, Director of the Iraqi Women’s Leadership Institute, Baghdad, January 2011.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 13, no. 4 (2011): 612–15.
Pratt, Nicola. “The Gender Logics of Resistance to the ‘War on Terror’:Constructing Sex–Gender Difference through the Erasure of Patriarchy in the Middle East.” Third World Quarterly 33, no. 10 (2012): 1821–36.
Pratt, Nicola. “Weaponising Feminism for the ‘War on Terror’, versus Employing Strategic Silence.” Critical Studies on Terrorism 6, no. 2 (2013): 327–31.
Pratt, Nicola. “‘Brothers’ or Others: Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt, by Anita H. Fábos.” African Affairs 108, no. 433 (October 1, 2009): 699–700.
Ali, Nadje Sadig al-, and Nicola Pratt. What kind of liberation?: women and the occupation of Iraq. Berkeley, Etats-Unis d’Amérique: University of California Press, 2009.
Pratt, Nicola. Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Arab World. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007.
Pratt, Nicola. “‘Brothers’ or Others: Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt, by Anita H. Fabos.” African Affairs 108, no. 433 (2009): 699–700.
Pratt, Nicola. “A RESPONSE TO MARINA OTTAWAY’S REVIEW OF DEMOCRACY AND AUTHORITARIANISM IN THE ARAB WORLD ( IJMES 40 [2008]: 501–503).” International Journal of Middle East Studies 41, no. 04 (2009): 709.
Ali, Nadje Sadig al-, and Nicola Pratt. What kind of liberation?: women and the occupation of Iraq. Berkeley, Etats-Unis d’Amérique: University of California Press, 2009.
El Said, Maha, Lena Meari, and Nicola Pratt. Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance: Lessons from the Arab World. London: Zed Books, 2015.