Yolande Bouka
Yolande Bouka
Associate Professor
Deptartment of Political Studies
Queen's University
Mackintosh-Corry Hall C425
About
Dr. Yolande Bouka is the Canada Research Chair on Afrofeminist Thought and Political Transformation, and an Associate Professor of gender and politics and international relations at Queen’s University in Canada. She is also the co-director of the MINDS-funded Research Network on Women, Peace, and Security. Prior to her academic appointment, she worked as a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in the Conflict Prevention and Risk Analysis Division, focusing on Africa’s Great Lakes Region. Her research focuses on gender, political violence, and race and international relations. The key questions driving her multidisciplinary research agenda is how vulnerable groups and individuals understand and navigate structural and political violence and how these experiences influence the social and political landscapes of conflict-affected societies.
Research Interests
- Gender and Security
- Race and Politics
- African politics
Recent Publications
- Contestation en Afrique, with Marie-Eve Desrosiers (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2022).
- “Create Foreign Policies as if Black and Brown Lives Mattered” In Feminist Solutions to Ending War, edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner (London: Pluto Press, 2021).
- “Implementing Inclusion: Gender Quotas, Inequality, and Backlash in Kenya” with Marie Berry and Marilyn Muthoni Kamuru, Politics and Gender 17:4, 640-664 (2020)
