{"id":331,"date":"2009-04-16T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/ccms\/?page_id=331"},"modified":"2025-06-27T09:08:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:08:49","slug":"buss-doris-e","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/buss-doris-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Doris E. Buss"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Area of Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Gender and global governance; Gender, sexuality, and violence in the constitution of legal orders; Transnational governance dimensions of mining and resource extraction; Rural mining livelihoods and gender in sub-Saharan Africa; gender and epistemology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Research Projects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

1. Gender and Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (Kenya, Sierra Leone and Mozambique): 2014\u20132021<\/strong> (for more information and copies of publications: https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/research\/artisanal-mining-and-gender-in-sub-saharan-africa-exploitation-miniere-artisanale-et-le-genre\/)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with partners in Canada and Africa, Carleton Professor Blair Rutherford and I have been studying the gendered dimensions of artisanal and small-scale gold mining in these three countries as well as the gendered context of global resource governance (in one project) and in the second, connecting the research results with mining communities, national and transnational organizations and governments working on gender and resource governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.<\/strong>\u201cGender and Global Governance: Beyond Co-optation and Confrontation\u201d<\/strong> (with Shireen Hassim, Pablo Heidrich, Laura Macdonald, Lisa Mills, Blair Rutherford, and Ania Zbyszewska), Faculty of Public Affairs Research Team competition winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This explores questions about how, and with what effects, gender is taken up in resource governance and trade policy regimes, what understandings infuse \u2018gender equality\u2019 in selected sites, and whether the discourse of gender inclusion enables alternatives to mainstream economic models and conceptions of gender, labour and human rights, and if so, in what ways?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Graduate Supervisions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I am currently accepting graduate students working in the areas of: gender, critical and queer approaches to international law and politics; transnational law and global governance; law and development; law and Africa; armed conflict and gendered insecurity; global resource governance; feminist politics and sexual and gender-based violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate students (current and recent)<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Doctoral:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Student Name<\/th>Project<\/th>Degree<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Janoff<\/td>Queer Diplomacy: Homophobia, Human Rights and International Affairs<\/em><\/td>PhD Canadian Studies, committee member (in progress)<\/td><\/tr>
Tan<\/td>Child Soldiers<\/em><\/td>PhD Legal Studies (Committee Member) in progress<\/td><\/tr>
Hoogendam<\/td>Reacting to the Rise in Accountability Requirements: A Case Study of Status of Women Canada\u2019s Women\u2019s Program<\/em><\/td>PhD, Public Policy (Committee Member), in progress<\/td><\/tr>
Bromwich<\/td>Re:Reading Ashley: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Figures of Ashley as Girl in the Smith Case<\/em><\/td>PhD Legal Studies, with distinction; Senate Medal winner, committee member.2015<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Masters:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Student Name<\/th>Project<\/th>Degree<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Sriyanchita Srinivasan<\/td>Women\u2019s political protest, Manipur, India<\/em><\/td>MA Legal Studies, Thesis, supervisor, current<\/td><\/tr>
Sarah Kamba<\/td>Conflict to Peace: The Turn Towards Peacebuilding in Natural Resource Management and the Role of Supply Chain Certification<\/em><\/td>MA Legal Studies, 2019, Research Essay, supervisor<\/td><\/tr>
Nathan Taylor<\/td>A challenge to the discourse of development or development done differently: The discourse of experts in the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation<\/em><\/td>MA Political Economy, Thesis, Supervisor 2018<\/td><\/tr>
Danielle Mihok<\/td>\u201cGoverning at a Distance\u201d Exploring the U.S. Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Action Section 1502 through the lens of Tania Murray <\/em>Li<\/td>MA Legal Studies, Research Essay, Supervisor 2017<\/td><\/tr>
Margaret Coligan<\/td>Legal Consciousness and Reporting Rape: An analysis of media responses to the allegations against Jian Ghomeshi<\/em>,<\/td>MA Legal Studies, Research Essay, Supervisor 2015<\/td><\/tr>
Ida Dei<\/td>The Difference Between \u2018Us and Them\u2019, \u2018Here and There\u2019: The use of language in the international discourse on the Anti-homosexuality Bill<\/em><\/td>MA Legal Studies, Research Essay, Supervisor 2013<\/td><\/tr>
Hayley Flett<\/td>Are Refugees \u2018Disappearing\u2019? An analysis of exclusion technologies used in the Tamil Immigration and Refugee Board Decisions in Canada<\/em><\/td>MA Legal Studies, Thesis (with distinction), supervisor 2012<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Selected Recent Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Forthcoming<\/strong> \u201cGender and Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining; Implications for Formalization\u201d, Extractive Industries and Society<\/em>, in production<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forthcoming<\/strong> (second author, with Blair Rutherford) \u201cGendered Governance and Socio-Economic Differentiation among Women Artisanal and Small-Scale Miners in Central and East Africa\u201d, Third World Thematics<\/em>: A TWQ Journal<\/em>, 4:1, 63-79, (DOI 10.1080\/23802014.2019.1646614)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020.<\/strong> (with Blair Rutherford, Cynthia Kumah, Mary Spear). \u201cBeyond the Rituals of Inclusion: The Environment for Women and Resource Governance in Africa\u2019s Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector\u201d, Environmental Science and Policy, 116: 30-37,(https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.envsci.2020.10.019<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020.<\/strong> (with Sarah Katz-Lavigne, Aluoka Otieno, Eileen Alma), \u201cRemember the Women of Osiri\u201d: Women and Gender in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Migori County, Kenya\u201d, 54(1) Canadian Journal of African Studies 177-195 (DOI 10.1080\/00083968.2019.1677483).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020.<\/strong> (with Blair Rutherford) \u201cGendering Women\u2019s Livelihoods in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: An Introduction\u201d, 54(1) Canadian Journal of African Studies 1-16<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020.<\/strong> (with Diana Majury) \u201cShadow Matters: Campus Sexual Violence and Legal Forms\u201d, in Violence, Interrupted: Sexual Violence on University Campuses, 243-262. Diane Crocker, Joanne Minaker, and Amanda Nelund, eds. McGill-Queens University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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m completing a multi-year study of identity and international war crimes tribunals. My research examines how international war crimes prosecutions produce \u2018legal knowledge\u2019 about the origins and nature of large-scale violence, the meaning of racial and ethnic identity, and the impact of sexual violence crimes. I am interested in how international criminal law draws on various expert knowledges \u2013 from anthropology to sociology and history \u2013 to generate legal determinations about large scale violence. This part of my research focuses specifically on the Rwanda Tribunal and what I term \u2018the politics\u2019 of judging Rwandan history. My research and teaching generally could be characterised as interested in identity and international law. My previous work considered how social movements coalesced around the promotion of, or opposition to, women\u2019s human rights, including sexual and reproductive rights.I am currently working (with Joanne Lebert, Blair Rutherford, Donna Sharkey, and Obi Aginam) on a project entitled Sexual Violence and Conflict in Africa<\/em>. This international workshop was held at Carleton University in May 2010, the papers from which will be published in an edited volume by the United Nations University Press in 2012. For more information on this project, see: http:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/sexual-violence-and-conflict-in-africa-workshop\/<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7596,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Doris E.","cu_people_last_name":"Buss","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[22],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-331","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor","cu_people_degree":"B.A. (Carleton), LL.B. (Dalhousie), LL.M. (British Columbia)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"doris.buss@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"613-520-2600 x. 8011","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32671,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/331\/revisions\/32671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}