Dr Fiona Macaulay - Staff Profile

NameDr Fiona Macaulay
Contact PositionSenior Lecturer in Development Studies Description BA Hons (Modern Languages), M.Phil (Latin American Studies), D.Phil (Politics), all University of Oxford
Telephone Number +44 (0)1274 23 5598
Email Addressf.macaulay@bradford.ac.uk

Research Areas

Latin America, especially Brazil

    * political parties (participation, gender, the Brazilian Workers¿ party)

    * gender policies (domestic violence, political representation)

    * women¿s movements and the state

    * human rights policy

    * reform of criminal justice systems, especially the police, prisons, access to justice and civil society involvement


Fiona has two principal research interests in Brazil and Latin America. These are (1) gender policies and politics (2) criminal justice reform and human rights. In both cases she is interested in the interface between organised civil society and the state, and the way in which specific political institutions and governance arrangements (political parties, decentralisation) impinge on the capacity of civil society groups to affect policy and reform the state.


In the area of gender studies, her research began by examining the restoration of democracy in Chile and Brazil, and the way in which party systems and individual parties in Latin America have responded to, and filtered, women¿s movement demands for political representation and state gender policies. Her two-country comparative study, Gender Politics in Brazil and Chile, based on several years of in-country fieldwork, is original in focusing on both national and local-level political arenas, in emphasising party systems as well as individual parties; and in analysing the religious-secular cleavage in addition to the left-right axis, the degree and type of institutionalization of individual parties and of the party system, and the individual party¿s political genesis and habitus as variables determining parties¿ receptivity to gender equality and equity claims. She has also published studies of women¿s networks and NGOs in Brazil and Latin America in relation to legal literacy, lobbying and advocacy, and domestic violence.


She developed expertise in the area of human rights whilst responsible for the Brazil desk at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International (1997-99). Funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation, she examined the institutional and political dynamics of human rights reform in Brazil, which has resulted in a number of publications on reform processes in the judiciary, police and prison system, as well as more general analyses. She is currently researching the ways in which civil society is able to engage with the criminal justice system, through accountability mechanisms, on the one hand, and co-production of security, on the other. In particular articles on little-known, but ground-breaking civil-society community-run prisons in Brazil, based on research supported by the Socio-Legal Studies Association, are due out in Spanish, Portuguese and English. She is continuing the study of state-NGO partnerships in São Paulo state with comparative research conducted in Minas Gerais state in November-December 2007. To this end she spent a month as Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, at the invitation of the Institute for Advanced Transdisciplinary Studies (holding the IEAT/Ford Foundation Chair). In September 2007 she gave a paper at the conference of the Latin American Studies Association in Montreal on organized crime gangs and the prison system in São Paulo.


She has also given presentations at high-level closed-door policy conferences at Chatham House, Wilton Park, and Ditchley Park on violence, security and criminal justice sector reform in Latin America, and Brazil. In 2005 she participated in an Expert Group Meeting on Equal Participation of Women and Men in Political Decision-Making, held at the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa. She has also contributed briefings on Brazil to the Economist Intelligence Unit, Oxford Analytica, Global Facilitation Network on Security Sector Reform and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She has contributed interviews to the BBC World Service in Portuguese, Women¿s Hour, and other media outlets.

Other Professional Interests

Other Professional Activities


    * Latin American Studies Association: Fiona was programme track chair for the 'Citizenship, social justice and rights' stream at the 2006 conference, and for 'Feminist Studies' at the 2007 conference.

    * Brazilian Studies: from 2000-2005 Fiona was Research Fellow at the Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford where she convened the Human Rights Programme, organising an annual workshop and hosting visiting fellows. She maintains a close link with the Brazilian Studies Programme based in the Latin American Centre, Oxford.


Editorial Positions


    * Journal of Latin American Studies (University of London), editorial board

    * Sur: International Journal on Human Rights (São Paulo) international board

    * The Latin Americanist (University of Central Florida) international board

    * Revista Brasileira de Segurança Pública (Brazilian Journal of Public Security) international board


Refereeing


    * Journals: Journal of Latin American Studies, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Latin American Politics and Society, International Political Economy.

    * Publishers: ITDG, University of North Carolina Press, Pluto, Manchester University press. University of Notre Dame


External Examiner


    * MAs in Development Studies and in Conflict, Governance and Development, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia

    * External doctoral examiner for School of Oriental and African Studies (London), London School of Economics, Universities of Leeds and Manchester


Bibliography

Forthcoming publications


    * Macaulay, F: 'Os Centros de Ressocialização no Estado de São Paulo: Estado e sociedade civil em um novo paradigma de administração prisional e de reintegração de infratores' (The Resocialization Centres in the State of São Paulo: state and society in a new paradigm of prison administration and offender reintegration') in Maria Palma Wolff and Salo de Carvalho (eds) Sistemas Punitivos na América Latina: Perspectiva Transdisciplinar [Penal Systems in Latin America: an interdisciplinary perspective] (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Lumen Juris, 2008)

    * Macaulay, F: 'Human rights in context: Brazil' in Andrew Hurrell and Monica Serrano (eds) The Human Rights Regime in the Americas: Theory and Reality (Oxford: Oxford University Press/United Nations University, 2008)

    * Macaulay, F: 'Women and civil war in Central America' Bonnie G. Smith (ed.) Oxford Encyclopaedia of Women in World History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008)

    * Macaulay, F (with Mahrukh Doctor and Kathryn Hochstetler): Brazil and Globalization (New York: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2008)

    * Macaulay, F: 'Corruption and accountability in the criminal justice system (police, prisons, judges)' in Timothy J. Power and Matthew M. Taylor (eds) Accountability Institutions and Political Corruption in Brazil (2009)


Current Publications


    * Macaulay, F: 'Justice sector and human rights reform' special issue 'Cardoso's Brazil and neo-liberalism' Latin American Perspectives Issue 156, 34 (5), September 2007, pp.26-42, ISSN: 0094-582X

    * Macaulay, F: 'Knowledge production, framing and criminal justice reform in Latin America' Journal of Latin American Studies 39 (3) August 2007, pp. 627-51. ISSN 0022216X link to pdf

    * Macaulay, F: 'Política carcerária e prisões' ('Prison policy') in Liana de Paula and Renato Sérgio de Lima (eds) Segurança pública e violência: o Estado está cumprindo seu papel? [Public Security and Violence: is the State playing its part?] (São Paulo: Editora Contexto, 2006) pp.15-29 ISBN 85-7244-345-2

    * Macaulay, F: Gender Politics in Brazil and Chile: the role of political parties in local and national policy-making, Palgrave/St Antony's, London, 2006.

    * Macaulay, F: Private Conflicts, Public Powers: Domestic Violence in the Courts in Latin America, chapter in The Judicialization of Politics in Latin America, Rachel Sieder, Line Schjolden, Alan Angeli (eds), Palgrave, 2005, pp. 211-230, ISBN 1-4039-7086-6

    * Macaulay, F: Democratisation and the judiciary: Competing reform agendas, in Maria D'Alva Kinzo and James Dunkerley (eds), Brazil since 1985: Economy, polity and society, London, Institute of Latin American Studies, 2003, pp. 84-104, ISBN 1-900039-53-2 ** (Revised and published in special issue of America Latina Hoy, Vol 39, April 2005, pp. 141-163, University of Salamanca)

    * Macaulay, F: The Purple in the Rainbow: Gender Politics in the PT, chapter in Radicals in Power: The Workers' Party (PT) and experiments in urban democracy in Brazil, Gianpaolo Baiocchi (ed), Zed Books, 2003, pp. 176-2-1, ISBN 1 84277 173 6

    * Macaulay, F: 'Taking the Law into their own Hands: Women, Legal Reform and Legal Literacy in Brazil', chapter in Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America, Nikki Craske and Maxine Molyneux (eds), Palgrave, 2002, pp. 79-101, ISBN 0-333-94948-X

    * Macaulay, F: `Tapping the Maharajah¿s Well: human rights and North-South relations¿ Article contributed to the International Human Rights Colloquium, São Paulo, Brazil, in May 2002. http://www.conectasur.org/files/a2e1.pdf

    * Macaulay, F: `Problems of police oversight in Brazil¿ Centre for Brazilian Studies Working Paper CBS 33-2002. July 2002

    * Macaulay, F: `Political and institutional challenges of reforming the Brazilian prison system¿ Centre for Brazilian Studies Working Paper CBS 31-2002. July 2002

    * Macaulay, F: `Getting gender on the policy agenda: A study of a Brazilian feminist lobby group¿ in Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux (eds), The Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America (Durham N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 2000) pp. 346-67. ISBN 0-8223-2469-5

    * Macaulay, F: `Tackling violence against women in Brazil: Converting international principles into effective local policy¿ in Susie Jacobs, Ruth Jacobson, Jennifer Marchbank (eds) States of Conflict: Gender, violence and resistance (London: Zed Press, 2000) pp.144-62. ISBN 1-85649-6562

    * Macaulay, F: `Women in Latin America¿ in Nicola Phillips and Julia Buxton (eds) Developments in Latin American Political Economy: States, markets and actors, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999) pp. 168-85; ISBN 0-7190-5459-1.

    * Macaulay, F: `Localities of power: Gender, parties and democracy in Brazil and Chile¿ in Haleh Afshar (ed.) Empowering Women: Illustrations from the Third World (London: Macmillan, 1998) pp. 1989-1992; ISBN 0-3337-1774-3

    * Macaulay, F: `The politics of human rights reform in Brazil¿ Oxford International Review Winter 2000 Vol 12 (2) pp. 27-38

    * Macaulay, F: `¿Governing for everyone¿: The Workers¿ Party administration in São Paulo 1989-1992¿ Bulletin of Latin American Research May 1996, Vol 15 (2) pp. 211-229. Awarded the Harold Blakemore essay prize

    * Macaulay, F: Co-editor with Chris Taylor Can't Pay, Won't Pay: Debt, Underdevelopment and Resistance (Oxford: Third World First, 1990). ISBN 1-870169-26-3