Chelsea Dunn
Chelsea Dunn
Network Coordinator (RN-WPS)
Dept. of Political Studies
Queen's University
Mackintosh- Corry Hall, Room B307
About
Chelsea Dunn is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University where she specializes in International Relations and Comparative Politics. She holds an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Victoria and a B.A. (Hons.) in Political Studies from Queen's. Chelsea’s research considers the global political economy of environmental governance. Using a feminist historical materialist lens, she aims to examine the global relations of power that produce uneven ecological outcomes in the context of climate change. Specifically, her work interrogates efforts to contain escalating ecological disruptions in urban settings, which are simultaneously spaces of everyday survival—linking housing, employment, and social reproduction—and sites of production and circulation driving global capitalism.
Chelsea’s doctoral research focuses on the multi-scalar governance of flooding in Manila, Philippines. By exploring how flooding alters urban rhythms of survival and accumulation in a relational manner, she hopes to reveal who benefits from current configurations of flood governance and the power relations therein. She is also currently working on a project that examines the discourses, myths, and governance practices surrounding climate change-induced migration and displacement.
Research Interests
- Global Political Economy
- Environmental Politics
- International Relations
Recent Publications
- Dunn, C. and Sharma, S. E. (under review). ‘Governing climate-induced displacement: Resilience and rendering disposable in the global South.’ Review of International Political Economy.
Online
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/ChelseaMDunn
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A career diplomat, Tim has led in the epicenters of geopolitical crises from Somalia to Kandahar. He was the Horn of Africa foreign policy officer during Canada’s Somalia mission and saw the crisis unfold in both Mogadishu and Ottawa. When Canada established diplomatic relations with the Palestinian authority, Tim went to Ramallah to open and head up Canada’s Representative Office to the West Bank and Gaza. He was there for three years from the high point of the peace process to the eruption of the second intifada. In Nairobi he tracked the pillaging of Congo resources in the aftermath of the Rwanda genocide and went on to be Chairman of the Kimberley Process to ban blood diamonds.
Dr. Grazia Scoppio is a Professor in the Department of Defence Studies, Royal Military College of Canada (RMC), cross-appointed in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University and Fellow at the Centre for International and Defence Policy (CIDP) at Queen’s. She held several appointments including Acting Deputy Director Research, Dallaire Centre of Excellence for Peace and Security; Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Peace and War Studies at Norwich University, Vermont, USA; and Dean of Continuing Studies at RMC. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Canadian Military Journal and the Comparative and International Education journal (CIE) and was the Editor (French) with Dr. Marianne Larsen, Editor (English) of the CIE journal. Her multidisciplinary research focuses on military personnel issues including: diversity and gender in military organizations; immigrants in the armed forces; indigenous people in the military; and military education. She presented her research at many national and international conferences and authored or co-authored several publications, including the book The Power of Diversity in the Armed Forces – International Perspectives on Immigrant Participation in the Military, co-edited by Scoppio and Greco. She received grants and awards from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Department of National Defence, and Fulbright.