Academic Writing

I’m an interdisciplinary researcher in the field of social justice and equalities studies. My PhD (2020) researched narratives of violence in the lives of refugee women living in Ireland. 

Peer reviewed articles and chapters 

Ballantine C. (2024) ‘Resilient survivors? Meanings of violence narratives in the lives of women of refugee background.’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2418482 

Smith K., Younes A., Al Fakir, Z and Ballantine C. (2024) ‘Outsourcing hospitality. Inequalities of power and responsibility in Community Sponsorship.’ Journal of International Migration and Integration https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-024-01209-x 

Ballantine C. and Browne K. (2024) ‘Doing feminist/queer research with “the wrong people”: methodological reflections from research interviews that challenge and confront.’ Women’s Studies International Forum 107 November – December 2024 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2024.102982

Ballantine C. (2022) ‘The Reaffirmation of Self? Narrative Inquiry for Researching Violence Against Women and Stigma’. Violence Against Women. 28 (9). doi:10.1177/10778012211024269 

Ballantine C. (2022) ‘Challenging orthodoxies in gender, violence, and international relations: review of Shepherd, L. Elgar Handbook on Gender and Violence’. Dutch Journal of Gender Studies https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGN2022.2.007.BALL 

Ballantine C. (2020) Stigma: the Machinery of Inequality by Imogen Tyler. Book Review, Irish Journal of Sociology.  https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0791603520972554

Under Review/ Forthcoming 

Scriver, S., Ballantine, C. and Duvvurry, N. The Social Costs of IPV: A Spatial Analysis of Negotiating Violence in Ghana and Pakistan Violence Against Women under review 

Ballantine, C., Hilliard, L., and Browne, K. ‘Navigating the tensions of creativity and division: Planning an artist-led workshop to address polarisations around sexualities/ gender/ abortion.’  In Browne, K. and Kazyak, E. eds Polarising sexual and gendered lives Routledge (forthcoming: 2025)

Dearcadh Graduate Journal of Gender Globalisation and Rights

With Dr. Stacey Scriver in the Centre for Global Women’s Studies, University of Galway, I co-founded and co-edit Dearcadh Graduate Journal 

Scriver, S. Ballantine, C. and Basir, E. 2024. Emergencies, emergences and polycrises: The enduring need for critical feminist interventions

Dearcadh: Graduate Journal of Gender, Globalisation and Rights. Volume 5. DOI: 10.13025/29197

Scriver, S., Ballantine, C. and Chippenddale, R.  2023. The Spectre of Violence in Graduate Feminist Research Dearcadh: Graduate Journal of Gender, Globalisation and Rights. Volume 4.  DOI: 10.13025/XW5Y-AH84

Ballantine, C., Scriver, S. and LeGoff, 2022. Emerging feminist research: courage and determination Dearcadh: Graduate Journal of Gender, Globalisation and Rights. Volume 3. DOI: 10.13025/5NJ0-7535

Ballantine, C. Scriver, S. and Monks Y. 2021. The possibilities of feminism(s) in an uncertain world Dearcadh: Graduate Journal of Gender, Globalisation and Rights. Volume 2.  DOI: 10.13025/90TM-8Z74

Scriver, S. and Ballantine, C. 2020. Introducing Dearcadh: A tradition in feminist academics and publishing Dearcadh: Graduate Journal of Gender, Globalisation and Rights. Volume 1.  DOI: 10.13025/F3JB-1683