Elina PenttinenDocent Elina Penttinen is a University Lecturer in Gender Studies, University of Helsinki. She has published widely on globalization and sex-trafficking, new security agency in the context of civilian crisis management, gendered experience of war andcompassion-based methodology. She leads a multidisciplinary research project on experience of violence and develops feminist analysis on healing trauma. She is the author of Joy and International Relations: a new methodology (2013) Routledge, Globalization, Prostitution and Sex-Trafficking: corporeal politics (2008) Routledge. She teaches courses on feminist methodology, scientific writing and gender studies and supervises doctoral thesis projects in Gender, Culture and Society doctoral programme. Her areas of expertise are feminist methodology, creative analytic writing, contemplative pedagogy and research on violence. Read More Read Less