Chloe Skinner is a Research Fellow in the Power and Popular Politics Cluster at IDS. Her research interests transect and weave together intersectional feminism and queer theory, embodiment and affect, contesting coloniality – specifically the material and epistemological dimensions of settler colonial violence – and the broader context of backlash amid intersecting global crises. Geographically, she has specific expertise and experience working in colonised Palestine.

Her forthcoming book will be published by Cambridge University Press in the Middle East Studies Series, entitled ‘Occupier and Occupied: Israel, Palestine and Masculinities across the Divide’. With a focus on the gendered politics of settler colonialism, Chloe explores the fluidity and interconnected nature of masculinities within this specific setting, indicating that what is hailed as ‘the ideal’ is ever subject to change amid complex webs of power, colonisation and hetero-patriarchy.

Chloe works on the Countering the Backlash: Reclaiming Gender Justice programme at IDS – examining the current global tide of backlash against feminism and progressive politics more broadly –co-leads an AHRC funded project exploring embodied processes of resistance at the nexus of overlapping forms of violence in Iraq and Palestine, and a BA funded project examining backlash against – and the struggle for – queer liberation in Palestine and Lebanon. She teaches on the MA Gender and Development programme as both a lecturer and a tutor.

Before joining IDS, Chloe worked for Airwars and Drone Wars as a researcher, and was an activist in Palestine for two years previous to this work.