Henna Aiman
- Email: ll16h24a@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: Women, Peace and Security: Investigating the Representation of Women as Actors of Security, Gendered Security Narratives and Audience Perception in Popular Culture
- Supervisors: Dr Louise Pears, Dr Laura Considine
Profile
Prior to starting my PhD at the University of Leeds, I completed an MA in Global Development and Education and a BA in Arabic and English Literature. My Masters thesis considered the impact of colonial epistemologies on practices that inform the lives of indigenous populations, specifically exploring indigenous methods of conflict resolution, gender identity, language hierarchies and social mobility. Meanwhile, my undergraduate thesis examined themes of trauma and resistance in Kashmiri literature. I utilised first and second wave trauma theory to examine militarisation, settler-colonial fragility, resistance and resilience of people and topographies across two novels set in Kashmir.
My PhD research investigates the relationship between gender and international security as well as its framing in popular culture security texts, with inquiry into what viewers believe to be important in security and how women as actors of security are perceived. I will implement a lens of intersectionality, examining gender and race, in the theorisation underpinning this project in order to enhance how my research addresses inequitable power dynamics.
Research interests
World Politics and Popular Culture
Gender and Security
Feminist IR
Critical Non-traditional Security
Qualifications
- MA Global Development and Education
- BA Arabic and English Literature
Research groups and institutes
- Centre for Global Security Challenges
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
- Centre for Global Development