Julie Billaud
I am an anthropologist with a keen interest in Afghanistan, Islam, international governance, gender and human rights. My doctoral research, carried out at the University of Sussex, focused on gender politics in 'postwar/reconstruction' Afghanistan and the politics of humanitarianism and legal reform in the new Islamic Republic. My first monograph 'Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan' came out in March 2015, with the University of Pennsylvania Press (The Ethnography of Political Violence Series).
Since then, I have worked on several research projects. One focused on Islam in Europe and the contemporary transformations of the European public sphere through its encounter with Islamic difference. This work documents everyday 'shariah' in neo-liberal Britain, and highlights how state interventions participate in contradictory ways in the making of a legal field which is both embraced for its commercial potential and contested for its supposed discrimination against women. More generally, the study explores notions of morality, citizenship and multiculturalism from the standpoint of these emerging religious claims.
My second research project was carried out in collaboration with Jane Cowan (Univ. of Sussex), and consisted in an ethnographic study of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a new mechanism of human rights monitoring within the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
From February 2016-February 2018, I was hired by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva to carry out a study of its ‘diplomatic culture’. The research documents the ways in which this 150-year old humanitarian organization implements its international mandate as ‘guardian of International Law’ on the frontlines of world conflicts.
Since then, I have worked on several research projects. One focused on Islam in Europe and the contemporary transformations of the European public sphere through its encounter with Islamic difference. This work documents everyday 'shariah' in neo-liberal Britain, and highlights how state interventions participate in contradictory ways in the making of a legal field which is both embraced for its commercial potential and contested for its supposed discrimination against women. More generally, the study explores notions of morality, citizenship and multiculturalism from the standpoint of these emerging religious claims.
My second research project was carried out in collaboration with Jane Cowan (Univ. of Sussex), and consisted in an ethnographic study of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a new mechanism of human rights monitoring within the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
From February 2016-February 2018, I was hired by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva to carry out a study of its ‘diplomatic culture’. The research documents the ways in which this 150-year old humanitarian organization implements its international mandate as ‘guardian of International Law’ on the frontlines of world conflicts.
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Offering one of the first long-term on-the-ground studies since the arrival of allied forces in 2001, Julie Billaud introduces readers to daily life in Afghanistan through portraits of women targeted by international aid policies. Examining encounters between international experts in gender and transitional justice, Afghan civil servants and NGO staff, and women unaffiliated with these organizations, Billaud unpacks some of the paradoxes that arise from competing understandings of democracy and rights practices. Kabul Carnival reveals the ways in which the international community’s concern with the visibility of women in public has ultimately created tensions and constrained women’s capacity to find a culturally legitimate voice.
Reviews of Kabul Carnival by Julie Billaud
Articles in peer-reviewed journals by Julie Billaud
Offering one of the first long-term on-the-ground studies since the arrival of allied forces in 2001, Julie Billaud introduces readers to daily life in Afghanistan through portraits of women targeted by international aid policies. Examining encounters between international experts in gender and transitional justice, Afghan civil servants and NGO staff, and women unaffiliated with these organizations, Billaud unpacks some of the paradoxes that arise from competing understandings of democracy and rights practices. Kabul Carnival reveals the ways in which the international community’s concern with the visibility of women in public has ultimately created tensions and constrained women’s capacity to find a culturally legitimate voice.
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