Professor Janine Natalya Clark

Birmingham Law School
Professor of Transitional Justice

Contact details

Telephone
0121 414 6316
Email
j.n.clark@bham.ac.uk
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Address
Birmingham Law School
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Janine Natalya Clark joined Birmingham Law School in October 2014. She was promoted to Reader in 2016 and promoted to Professor in 2018. Her research interests include transitional justice, war and armed conflict, resilience, soundscape ecology and posthumanism.

She has four research monographs and one co-edited book. Her interdisciplinary work has also been published in a wide range of peer-reviewed journals, including the International Journal of Transitional Justice, Social & Legal Studies, the Journal of Human Rights Practice, Environment and Security and Disability & Society.

Janine was recently awarded the Environmental Sociology Best Paper Prize 2026 for her article 'Human-animal connections: Expanding and cross-worlding relational approaches to resilience'.

Qualifications

  • LLB (Bristol)
  • MA (Leeds)
  • PhD (Nottingham)

Biography

Janine received her PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2006 and subsequently spent three years in the International Politics department at Aberystwyth University as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow respectively.

Before joining Birmingham Law School in October 2014, she held Lecturer positions in the Post-War Reconstruction and Development Unit at the University of York (2009-2010), the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen’s University in Belfast (2010-2011) and in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield (2011-2014). She was promoted to Chair in 2018.

Postgraduate supervision

Professor Clark is interested in supervising research in the following areas:

- Transitional justice
- Resilience
- War and armed conflict
- Environmental impacts of war
- Posthumanism

Research

Research interests include:

  • Transitional justice
  • The Russia-Ukraine war
  • Resilience
  • Social-ecological systems
  • Posthumanism
  • Soundscape ecology
  • Multi-sensory research methods

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Clark, JN 2026, 'Drones and war: Neglected environmental impacts and the potentiality of drone conservation', Environment and Security . https://doi.org/10.1177/27538796261419549

Clark, JN 2026, 'Listening to climate change: sound, imagination and environmental sociology', Environmental Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2026.2704790

Clark, JN 2026, 'Listening to nature's voices: Bridging human/nature binaries', Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture.

Clark, JN 2026, 'The environmental impacts of the Russia–Ukraine war: Reflections from the setting of an English botanic garden', The Ecological Citizen, vol. 9, no. 2, epub-154, pp. epub-154-1 to epub-154-4. <https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/article.php?t=environmental-impacts-russia-ukraine-war-reflections-setting-english-botanic-garden>

Clark, JN 2026, 'Transitional justice and more-than-human design: an unexplored relationship', International Journal of Transitional Justice. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijag018

Clark, JN 2025, 'Environmental harms and entangled lifeworlds in the Russia-Ukraine war: A relational reframing of transitional justice', Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2025.2533716

Clark, JN 2025, 'Exploring the environmental impacts of war through sound and listening: A study of the Russia-Ukraine war', Environmental Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2025.2510416

Clark, JN 2025, 'The environmental impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war: Challenging anthropocentric approaches to transitional justice', Social and Legal Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639251360212

Clark, JN 2025, 'Thinking and writing with more-than-human worlds: Some animal perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine war ', Environmental Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2025.2596609

Clark, JN 2025, 'Thinking with edges – and at the edges: some retrospective reflections on fieldwork and missed connections', Qualitative Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941251331457

Clark, JN 2025, 'Transitional justice and memory-building: Acknowledging the importance of more-than-human worlds', Memory Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980251372515

Clark, JN 2025, 'Transitional justice and the significance of more-than-human worlds: Some reflections from the Russia-Ukraine war ', Journal of Human Rights Practice, vol. 17, no. 3, huaf040. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huaf040

Clark, JN 2025, 'War, ontology and bodies: Beyond human-centred approaches', Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2024.2445984

Chapter

Clark, JN 2026, Bodies, Ecotones and Disability: Some Personal Reflections. in R Fish, K Björnsdóttir & A Wilde (eds), The Routledge International Handbook of Feminist Disability Studies. 1 edn, Routledge International Handbooks, Routledge, pp. 138-146. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003356387-14

Clark, JN 2025, Overcoming dis/ability barriers in field research. in D Hammett & N Holmes (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Field Research. 1st edn, Routledge Handbooks, Routledge, pp. 118-126. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003404903-19

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Expertise

Education and Sensitization in the Fight against Sexual Violence in Conflict: Tackling Prejudice and Social Stigma in Bosnia-Herzegovina

  • Sexual violence in conflict
  • International criminal courts
  • Transitional justice