Irene Hadiprayitno teaches International Studies and Southeast Asian Studies with the Leiden Institute for Area Studies. Due to interdisciplinary training in international relations, political science, and international law, she has unique expertise in the political economy of human rights to study the questions concerning socio-economic inequality, transitional justice, and norms translations. She works on the complexities of promoting international norms in developing countries, focusing on indigenous rights, human rights, as well as food security and food sovereignty. She currently serves as co-editor for the Palgrave Macmillan’s Book Series on Human Rights Interventions.

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Fields of interest

• The dialectical interplay between norms, discourses and practices in human rights negotiations in authoritarian and semi-democratic states. 
• The conceptualisation of indigeneity and Indigenous rights in Southeast Asia in relation to agricultural modernisation and sustainability
• Socio-economic rights and the networks for the regional promotion of human rights in ASEAN
• The linkages between political transitions, political movements, and transitional justice in comparative settings

Research

My research is a comprehensive exploration of the political, economic, and social dimensions of human rights negotiations across various contexts and issues. Grounded in field studies, my recent articles have sought to contextualize agricultural modernisation in Papua within the global human rights discourse. I am currently engaged in a study on the dynamics of consensus and dissensus between state and non-state actors on human rights in ASEAN. The study aims to disentangle the consensus frame by focusing on contradictions that exist in Southeast Asian foreign policies, actors' narratives, and their preferred networks and types of institutions. 

Grants and awards

• Leiden Faculty Fund for Research Collaboration, 2023 
• Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Publication Grant, 2022 
• Leiden Global Interactions, Breed Grant, 2018 
• UNESCO, Fellowship Program, 2006 
• Nordic School of Human Rights, Mobility Scholarship, 2006 
• Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, Research Grant, 2004 
• Utrecht University, University Scholarship Program, 2003 
• Open Society Institute, University Scholarship, 2002 
• Netherlands Education Centre Jakarta, STUNED Scholarship, 2000

Curriculum vitae

I was born in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and studied International Relations (BA) at University of Indonesia (2000). My master degree is on International Protection on Human Rights (LLM) from Utrecht University (2001). In 2009, I obtained my PhD from Utrecht University’s Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) where I wrote my dissertation on the right to development and development hazards. Before joining Leiden, I worked as a postdoc and lecturer at the Law and Governance Group, Wageningen University (2009-2013). In 2014, I was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, the University of Edinburgh.

Workplace

Leiden

Witte Singel 27A
2311 BG Leiden
Room number 2154

The Hague

Schouwburgstraat 2
2511 VA The Hague
Room number A304B

Publications