Daniel Conway

School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Humanities, University of Westminster, London, UK.

Daniel Conway is Reader in Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster. His research is situated at the intersections of Feminist International Relations, political sociology and queer theory and with an expertise in qualitative methods. He has published widely on the anti-apartheid and peace activism by white South Africans in the 1980s including Masculinities, Militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign: War Resistance in Apartheid South Africa (Manchester and Johannesburg: Manchester University Press and Wits University Press, 2012), conducted ethnographic fieldwork on the lives and identities of British immigrants in South Africa published as Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British in South Africa (with Pauline Leonard, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and is currently writing a third book The Global Politics of LGBTQ+ Pride: Queer Activism and Complicity in Africa, Asia and North America (Bloomsbury Academic) based on ethnographic fieldwork at Pride events in South Africa, East and South Asia and North America.  His work has been published in the journals Sociology, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Qualitative Research, Men and Masculinities, Citizenship Studies and the Journal of Southern African Studies. Conway’s research has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the Economic and Social Research Council and the British Academy. He is the 2023/24 chair of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association.

Daniel Conway was awarded a PhD in Politics by Rhodes University, South Africa, an MSc with Commendation in International Relations by the University of Bristol and a BA (Hons) in History and Politics by the University of Exeter.

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