Cai Wilkinson, Ph.D.

cai.wilkinson@deakin.edu.au

Deakin University

City: Melbourne, Victoria

Country: Australia

About Me:

I am an Associate Professor in International Relations in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. My research focuses on societal security in the post-Soviet space, with a particular focus on LGBTQ human rights and “traditional values”, and also interrogates the role of genders and sexualities in international politics. My work has been published in Security Dialogue, Journal of Human Rights and Nationalities Papers amongst other scholarly journals, and I have contributed chapters to volumes on securitization theory, LGBT activism and politics, and fieldwork-based research methods. I recently guest-edited and contributed to an interventions symposium on queer/ing in/security for Critical Studies on Security (vol. 5, no. 1, 2017). I am currently working on research projects about the politics of LGBT rights in the post-Soviet space and the protection of LGBTIQ human rights in the Asia-Pacific. 

Research Interests

Gender and Politics

Post-Communist Politics

LGBTQIA Politics

Research Methods & Research Design

Human Rights

LGBT Human Rights

Traditional Values

Queer Insecurity

Societal Security

Identity Politics

Genderqueer

Gender Inclusivity

Critical Security Studies

Countries of Interest

Russia

Kyrgyzstan