Vanessa Pupavac

Contact

• workRoom C11 Law and Social Sciences
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 95 14796
• fax0115 95 14859
• vanessa.pupavac@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Vanessa Pupavac is a senior lecturer in International Relations at the University of Nottingham. She has previously worked for the UN Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia and other international organisations.

Expertise Summary

Research summary

Vanessa Pupavac's research has addressed human rights (including language rights), and humanitarian and disaster politics (including international psychosocial programmes), from a historical-cultural perspective. Her current research is exploring international politics, literature and translation.

Teaching summary

Postgraduate

POLI4162 MA Dissertation Politics and International Relations

POLI4208 Disasters, Politics and Society

Undergraduate

POLI13119 Disasters, Politics and Society

POLI2049 International Politics in the Twentieth Century

POLI11004 Understanding Global Politics

Research Summary

My current research is exploring Schiller's Europe and the writings of the Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža.

Recent Publications

• VANESSA PUPAVAC AND MLADEN PUPAVAC, 2020. Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development: Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development: Rekindling Faustian Humanism Rowman & Littlefield.
• PUPAVAC, VANESSA, 2012. Global Disaster Management and Therapeutic Governance of Communities Development Dialogue. 58, 81-97
• PUPAVAC, VANESSA, 2012. War-Affected children, International Crisis of Meaning, and the Limits of Rehabilitation Programmes. In: VANDENHOLE, WOUTER and ILSE DERLUYN, CINDY MELS, STEPHAN PARMENTIER AND WOUTER VANDENHOLE, eds., Remember: Rehabilitation, Reconciliation and Reintegration of Children Affected by War Antwerp: Intersentia Publishers. 449-496
• MLADEN PUPAVAC AND VANESSA PUPAVAC, 2012. Trauma advocacy, veteran politics and the Croatian therapeutic state Alternatives. 37(2), 199-213

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Phd supervision

I am interested in students who want to work on the following areas:

International politics and south-east Europe

International politics and literature

Academic freedom

Supervision as first supervisor of successfully completed PhD theses include:

Kwame Nana Agyeman

Esther Akanya

Janine Clark

Owen Godfrey

Yumiko Kaneko

Natasha King

Sanen Marshall

Leila Thorpe

Ian Walsh

• VANESSA PUPAVAC AND MLADEN PUPAVAC, 2020. Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development: Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development: Rekindling Faustian Humanism Rowman & Littlefield.
• PUPAVAC, VANESSA, 2012. Global Disaster Management and Therapeutic Governance of Communities Development Dialogue. 58, 81-97
• PUPAVAC, VANESSA, 2012. War-Affected children, International Crisis of Meaning, and the Limits of Rehabilitation Programmes. In: VANDENHOLE, WOUTER and ILSE DERLUYN, CINDY MELS, STEPHAN PARMENTIER AND WOUTER VANDENHOLE, eds., Remember: Rehabilitation, Reconciliation and Reintegration of Children Affected by War Antwerp: Intersentia Publishers. 449-496
• MLADEN PUPAVAC AND VANESSA PUPAVAC, 2012. Trauma advocacy, veteran politics and the Croatian therapeutic state Alternatives. 37(2), 199-213
• PUPAVAC, V., 2012. Language rights: from free speech to linguistic governance Palgrave Macmillan.
• PUPAVAC, V., 2011. Punishing childhoods: contradictions in children's rights and global governance Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. 5(3), 285-312
• PUPAVAC, VANESSA, 2010. From Materialism to Non-Materialism in International Development: Revisiting Rostow’s Stages of Growth and Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful. In: JENS SORENSEN, ed., Challenging the Aid Paradigm: Western Currents and Asian Alternatives Palgrave/Macmillan. 47-77
• PUPAVAC, V., 2010. Weaving postwar reconstruction in Bosnia?: the attractions and limitations of NGO gender development approaches Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. 4(4), 475-493
• PUPAVAC, VANESSA, 2010. International Development Policies and Global Security. In: PINAR BILGIN, ed., Global Security EOLSS Publishers for UNESCO.
• PUPAVAC, V., 2010. The consumerism-development-security nexus Security Dialogue. 41(6), 691-713
• PUPAVAC, VANESSA, 2010. Between Compassion and Conservatism: A Genealogy of British Humanitarian Sensibilities. In: DIDIER FASSIN AND MARIELLA PANDOLFI, ed., States of Emergency: Anthropology of Military and Humanitarian Intervention Zone Books (distributed by MIT Press). 129-149
• PUPAVAC, VANESSA, 2009. Sigmund Freud. In: JENNY EDKINS AND NICK VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS, ed., Critical Theorists and International Relations Routledge. 171-175
• PUPAVAC, VANESSA, 2009. Children's Human Rights Advocacy. In: GOODHART, MICHAEL, ed., Human Rights Politics and Practice Oxford University Press.
• STANDISH, ALEX WITH CONTRIBUTING MATERIAL FROM VANESSA PUPAVAC, 2009. Global advocacy and the cosmopolitan citizen in the curriculum. In: STANDISH, ALEX, ed., Global Perspectives in the Geography Curriculum first. Routledge. 160-181
• VANESSA PUPAVAC, 2008. Changing Concepts of International Health. In: DAVID WAINWRIGHT, ed., A Sociology of Health Sage. 173-190
• PUPAVAC, VANESSA, 2008. Hamlet’s Crisis of Meaning and Meaninglessness in the War on Terror. Mental Health Review Journal. 13(1), 14-26
• PUPAVAC, VANESSA, 2008. A Critical Review of NGO Sustainable Development Philosophy. In: FEWSMITH, JOSEPH and ZHENG, YONGNIAN, eds., China’s Opening Society: Non-State Sector and Governance Routledge.
• PUPAVAC, V., 2008. Refugee advocacy, traumatic representations and political disenchantment Government and Opposition. 43(2), 270-292
• PUPAVAC, VANESSA, 2007. 'Witnessing the demise of the Developing State'. In: AIDAN HEHIR AND NEIL ROBINSON, ed., State-building: Theory and Practice Routledge.
• PUPAVAC, V., 2006. Language rights in conflict and the denial of language as communication International Journal of Human Rights. 10(1), 61-78
• PUPAVAC, V., 2006. Reconstructing Post-Conflict Cultures: A Case Study of Bosnia. In: Post Conflict Cultures: Rituals of Representation 1. Zoilus Press, London. 133-150
• PUPAVAC, V., 2006. Humanitarian Politics and the Rise of International Disaster Psychology. In: Handbook of International Disaster Psychology first. 1. Praeger Publishers, Westport CT. 15-34
• PUPAVAC, V., 2006. The politics of emergency and the demise of the developing state: problems for humanitarian advocacy Development in Practice. VOL 16(NUMB 3-4), 255-269
• PUPAVAC, V., 2006. Refugees in the Sick Role: Stereotyping Refugees and Eroding Refugee Rights
• PUPAVAC, V., 2006. Discriminating language rights and politics in the post-Yugoslav states Patterns of Prejudice. VOL 40(NUMB 2), 112-128
• PUPAVAC, V., 2005. Empowering women? An assessment of international gender policies in Bosnia International Peacekeeping. 12(3), 391-405
• HUGHES, C. and PUPAVAC, V., 2005. Framing Post-conflict Societies: international pathologisation of Cambodia and the post-Yugoslav states Third World Quarterly. VOL 26(NUMB 6), 873-890
• PUPAVAC, V., 2005. The Demoralised Subject of Global Civil SocietyÃ. In: Global Civil Society: Contested Futures Routledge, London and New York. 52-68
• PUPAVAC, V., 2005. Multiculturalism and its Discontents in SFR Yugoslavia and Bosnia: A Critique of the Multiculturalist Rights ModelÃ. In: The UN, Human Rights and Post Conflict Situations. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK. 213-237
• PUPAVAC, V., 2005. Human security and the rise of global therapeutic governance CSD -LONDON- CENTRE FOR DEFENCE STUDIES-. VOL 5(NUMB 2), 161-182
• PUPAVAC, V., 2004. War on the couch: the emotionology of the new international security paradigm European Journal of Social Theory. 7(2), 149-170
• PUPAVAC, V., 2004. Psychosocial interventions and the demoralization of humanitarianism Journal of Biosocial Science. VOL 36(PART 4), 491-504
• PUPAVAC, C.V., 2004. Humanitarian Politics and the Rise of International Disaster Psychology. In: Handbook of International Disaster Psychology first. 1. Praeger Publishers, Westport CT. 15-34
• PUPAVAC, V., 2004. International Therapeutic Peace and Justice in Bosnia Social and Legal Studies. VOL 13(PART 3), 377-402
• PUPAVAC, V., 2003. Securing the Community? An Examination of International Psychosocial InterventionÃ. In: International Intervention in the Balkans since 1995 Routledge, London and New York. 158-171.
• PUPAVAC, V., 2003. Politics and Language Rights: A Case Study of Language Politics in CroatiaÃ. In: Minority Languages in Europe: Status, Frameworks, Prospects Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, UK. 138-154
• PUPAVAC, V., 2002. Pathologizing populations and colonizing minds: international psychosocial programs in Kosovo Alternatives. 27(4), 489-511
• PUPAVAC, V., 2002. Afghanistan: The Risk of International Psychosocial Risk Management
• PUPAVAC, V., 2002. The International Children's Rights Regime. In: Rethinking Human Rights: Critical Approaches to International Politics Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, UK. 57-75
• PUPAVAC, V., 2002. Therapeutising refugees, pathologising populations: international psycho-social programmes in Kosovo. United Nations, New York, Geneva, Vienna. (59)
• PUPAVAC, V., 2001. Therapeutic governance: psycho-social intervention and trauma risk management Disasters. 25(4), 358-372
• PUPAVAC, V., 2001. Misanthropy without borders: The international children's rights regime Disasters. 25(2), 95-112
• VANESSA PUPAVAC, 2001. Culture of Violence Theories and Culture of Peace Programmes: A Critique. Cultural Matters series. Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK.
• PUPAVAC, V., 2001. The Limitations of SFR Yugoslavia's Multiethnic Education Policies SOUTH SLAV JOURNAL. VOL 22(PART 1), 33-43
• PUPAVAC, V., 2001. Children under UK Law. In: Direito da Familia e Politicia Social 89-99
• PUPAVAC, V., 2000. Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Multiethnic Rights Approach and the Politicisation of Ethnicity Human Rights Law Review. 5(2), 3-8
• PUPAVAC, V., 2000. From Statehood to Childhood: Changing Approaches to International Order. In: Regeneration of Wartorn Societies MacMillan Publishers Ltd, London. 134-153
• PUPAVAC, V., 2000. Od nacije-drzave do Kulturne drzave. In: Europa I Nacionalizam 109-123
• PUPAVAC, V., 2000. Eric D. Gordy The Culture of Power in Serbia. Nationalism and the Destruction of Alternatives Europe-Asia Studies. VOL 52(PART 8), 1557
• PUPAVAC, V., 1999. ChildrenÃs Rights and the New Culture of Paternalism Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK.
• PUPAVAC, V., 1998. The Infantilisation of the South and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Human Rights Law Review. 3(2), 1-6
• PUPAVAC, V., 1998. Disputes over war casualties in former Yugoslavia RADICAL STATISTICS. VOL 69, 25-30
• PUPAVAC, V., 1998. The Post-Yugoslav States Peace Review. VOL 10(NUMBER 2), 143-150
• PUPAVAC, V., 1998. Cycle of Violence Theories and Conflict Resolution in the Post-Yugoslav States Refuge. 16(6), 16-19
• PUPAVAC, V., 1997. Children's Rights and the New International Order: A Case Study of Serbia. In: Transition in Central and Eastern Europe Vol. II. 302-316