Maria Eriksson Baaz

Researcher at NAI Conflict Cluster (from February 2010)

Project: Gendering and (Un)Gendering Police Reform: the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Academic background
PhD in Peace and Development Research, School of Global Studies , Gothenburg University , Sweden;  MA in Development Studies, including Development Studies at the Department of Peace and Development Research, Gothenburg University and Political Science and Sociology, University of Lund , Sweden.   

Subject areas
Gender and war; masculinity and militarism; gender and defence and police reform in post conflict contexts; postcolonial theory; diaspora studies, with focus on the African Diaspora.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Contact
maria.eriksson-baaz@nai.uu.se
Tel: +46 18 56 22 04 (direct)

Articles in international refereed journals
Eriksson Baaz, Maria & Stern, Maria, 2009, “Why do Soldiers Rape? Masculinity, Violence and Sexuality in the Armed Forces in the Congo”, in International Studies Quaterly. (2009) 53, 495-518

Eriksson Baaz, Maria & Stern, Maria, 2008, “Making Sense of Violence: Voices of Soldiers in the DRC”, in Journal of Modern African Studies 46(1).Cambridge University Press. Second most read JMAS article in 2008.

Books
Eriksson Baaz, Maria, 2005, The Paternalism of Partnership: A Postcolonial Reading of Identity in Development Aid, London and New York : Zed Books.

Eriksson Baaz, Maria & Palmberg, Mai (eds.), 2001, Same and Other: Negotiating African Identity in Cultural Production, Uppsala : The Nordic Africa Institute.  

Eriksson Baaz, Maria; Eriksson, Catharina and Thörn, Håkan (eds), 1999, reprinted 2002.
Globaliseringens kulturer: Den postkoloniala paradoxen, rasismen och det mångkulturella samhället. Nora: Nya Doxa. (Eng: “The Cultures of Globalization: The Postcolonial Paradox, Racism and the Multicultural Society”).