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Romitesh Kant

@romiteshkant.bsky.social
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Suva-born, living on Ngunnawal country (Canberra) Researching masculinities and politics | PhD in progress (read: overthinking professionally)

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George Lawson @georgelawson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Interested in attending OCIS 2027 in Suva, Fiji? Of course you are. To learn more, come along to an information session next Monday 21st: 3pm Canberra time; 5pm in Suva; 7am in continental Europe. Details here: ocis.org.au/2027-call-fo... @romiteshkant.bsky.social @anubellschool.bsky.social
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2027 OCIS Call for Proposals – 2027 OCIS
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ConstitutionNet @constitutionnet.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
📢New piece! Fiji’s Supreme Court reshaped the rules of constitutional change. By affirming the 2013 Constitution but easing its rigid amendment hurdles, the Court kept the frame while opening the door to democratic reform: bit.ly/4mgT0fd ✍️ @mereoni.bsky.social & @romiteshkant.bsky.social
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Keeping the Frame, Opening the Door: The Supreme Court’s Take on Fiji’s 2013 Constitution
In August 2025, Fiji’s Supreme Court delivered a landmark opinion on the validity and amendability of the country’s 2013 Constitution. In this article, Romitesh Kant and Mereoni Chung trace how the Co
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Romitesh Kant @romiteshkant.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
New article out in The Round Table: Fiji’s 2022 elections reconfigured—but didn’t dismantle—the masculinised foundations of power. How patriarchal authority survives reform by adapting + shapeshifting. Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The contours of masculinity: leadership, ethnicity, and gendered power in Fiji’s 2022 elections
This article examines how political masculinities were performed, contested, and institutionalised during and after Fiji’s 2022 general elections. Drawing on political masculinities, decolonial cri...
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Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at ANU @anubellschool.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Romitesh Kant, PhD scholar from our @anudpa.bsky.social, speaks to ABC about Fijian politician Lynda Tabuya and how cyberbullying is weaponised to silence Pacific women in politics. 🎧: quicklink.anu.edu.au/0979 @anu-asiapacific.bsky.social
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Fijian politician Lynda Tabuya's private video and public dismissal - ABC Pacific
On Christmas Eve 2024 Lynda Tabuya found out a private video she had made for her husband was circulating on social media. She was soon dismissed from her cabinet role in Fiji's government.
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Kerryn Baker @kerrynbaker.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
New open access article from @romiteshkant.bsky.social & me on how the 2013 Fiji constitution limits diversity & inclusion in politics www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A Fiji (parliament) for all Fijians? The impact of gender-blind and race-blind electoral provisions in a divided society
In a gendered and racialized society, what do gender-blind and race-blind electoral provisions mean for diversity in politics? This question is particularly important for Fiji, a country with a pos...
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Sangeeta Mangubhai @sangeetamangubhai.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Our perspective piece in @pacificconsbio.bsky.social provides 8 strategies for "Increasing Pacific Islander research and authorship in the academic literature". @romiteshkant.bsky.social @mereoni.bsky.social @rufinovarea.bsky.social Free to download: www.publish.csiro.au/PC/PC25011
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ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Get your copy today: doi.org/10.22459/AJBH.09.2025 @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social @romiteshkant.bsky.social @anudpa.bsky.social @anu-chl.bsky.social @kteaiwa.bsky.social @amywayness.bsky.social @auswhn.bsky.social
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Australian Journal of Biography and History: No. 9, 2025
<p>This special issue of the <em>Australian Journal of Biography and History</em>, ‘Oceania Lives’, showcases a collection of writing and dialogue from an emerging group of Pacific scholars interested...
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Sangeeta Mangubhai @sangeetamangubhai.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Well worth a read. @mereoni.bsky.social and @romiteshkant.bsky.social paper on "The Pacific Ocean of peace: a promise or a paradox?" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Pacific Ocean of peace: a promise or a paradox?
Using Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka’s articulation of the region as an ‘Ocean of Peace’ as an entry point, this article examines the competing visions of peace and sovereignty in the Pacifi...
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
"It is also scientifically illiterate. This is policy-making at its most arbitrary and self-defeating."
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Anne Salmond: Govt de-funding the mind
Comment: The Government's decision to cut humanities and social science research from its major funding stream is both bad policy and scientifically illiterate, writes Dame Anne Salmond
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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hannah Arendt is not the oracle she is now being proposed to be. Her empathy, but her larger logics of humanism, are stained with her silence on colonial slavery’s bloodletting.
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𓄂𓆃 @tamani-rarama.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Exciting development for LBQ women & people in the Pacific. Through the work of DIVA for Equality networks, here are position papers for use of Govts, CROPs, dev agencies, UN, CSO & social movement. Our 1st-ever research by & for #LBQ human rights. Access policy briefs here: tinyurl.com/42yezkav
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
a problem is that a lot of men are too misogynistic to believe women, even if we plainly say it to their face.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
when you stop reading "believe women" as "women never lie" and see it as "one of the foundational myths of patriarchy is that women can never be trusted" it makes a lot more sense.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/11/2024
Much of the money in this agreement climate negotiators reached in Baku will likely be structured as debt, even though, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social writes, that stands in the way of COP’s stated goals.
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Climate Diplomacy’s $300 Billion Failure
Climate negotiations at COP29 ended in a deal that mostly showed how far the world is from facing climate change’s real dangers.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/11/2024
"The ICC’s intervention serves a critical purpose: to uphold the universal principles of humanity enshrined in international law. Accountability is essential to deterring future violations and ensuring justice for victims." — #AJOpinion by Refik Hodzic ⤵️
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Israel and its supporters cannot gaslight the law
Arguments that the ICC is ‘criminalising’ self-defence by issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant are absurd.
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Erika Lennon @erikalennon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The newest version of the NCQG (read new #ClimateFinance goal) just released at #COP29 can be summarized in one word: Atrocious. Emphasizing urgency of action while failing to take it and offering up such a paltry number. Developing countries should walk out until developed countries get serious.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22/11/2024
Western nations that sell arms to Israel may be forced to re-evaluate their trade agreements after the ICC arrest warrants against Israeli PM Netanyahu and ex-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” in Gaza, say experts ⤵️
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Arms to Israel: Will countries halt sales in wake of ICC arrest warrants?
The arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant could lead to countries rethinking arms deals with Israel, experts say
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22/11/2024
In light of the ICC arrest warrants issued against Israeli PM Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, analyst Neve Gordon says there is “substantial” evidence of Israel using food as a method of war in Gaza. 🔴 Read analysis: aje.io/kz2x6n
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 22/11/2024
🚨 New #COP29 climate finance text is out. A vague $1.3T target with no teeth, $250B in debt-creating finance, 0 commitment to end fossil fuels & no mention of #HumanRights nor #LossAndDamage. Rich countries are dodging climate responsibilities & vulnerable nations will again pay the price.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
An international arrest warrant has been issued for Netanyahu. If you want him arrested, Like. If it needs to be right now, RT.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Thinking back on the legacy of the Biden/Harris administration and sincerely the only substantial thing that comes to mind is that they coordinated a genocide. Hard to see past that fact.
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
BREAKING: US Senate Resolution 111 that would block arms sales to Israel didn’t pass. The US is not only complicit in genoside. It is an active participant.
Senate vote on resolution 111: 79 voted nay and 19 voted yea.
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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · 20/11/2024
Resistance is a muscle that must be exercised regularly or it risks being weakened over time by forces who are pushing conformity to injustice.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 19/11/2024
The Palestinian resistance is currently articulating the clearest expression of anti-colonial dissent, of a national liberation movement that refuses to have its humanity cancelled, and its populations erased and sacrificed for the imperial core. mondoweiss.net/2024/11/pale...
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Palestine against an eco-apartheid world
In coming years, eco-apartheid will become more prominent worldwide as colonial violence is used to maintain and safeguard Western interests and profits. We are seeing this future in Gaza today.
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𓄂𓆃 @tamani-rarama.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Thank you for joining @romiteshkant.bsky.social and so lovely to be soaked with oceans of feminist analysis, politics, proposals and more. So very healing to organise and to discuss all these issues with the Pasifika collective and community.
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Romitesh Kant @romiteshkant.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
As I write my PhD chapter on feminist and queer challenges to masculinities in Fiji, I’m inspired by this webinar featuring incredible, powerful Pacific feminists. Their work and resilience in challenging patriarchies in diff spaces are vital to our region’s justice movements.
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Elilai Rengiil @elilairengiil.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Palauan youth file UN Complaint alleging human rights violations by U.S. military — BlueOceanLaw
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 2024 Palauan youth file UN Complaint alleging human rights violations by U.S. military Today, Guam-based international law firm Blue Ocean Law filed a submissio...
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Prof. Katerina Teaiwa @kteaiwa.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Awesome Banaban human rights defenders at COP29
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𓄂𓆃 @tamani-rarama.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
FEMINISTS PUSHING BACK AGAINST PATRIARCHY: PACIFIC WOMEN ORGANISING FOR JUSTICE. Mark the date as Pacific Feminists takes the space, 20 November, 12PM - 2PM Fiji Time. REGISTER HERE FOR THE WEBINAR: us06web.zoom.us/j/82073229834... #PacFemSRHRJ #PacificWomenExperts #FeministWebinar
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My article on the coloniality of academic freedom and the Palestine exception still has free access. Check it out when you get a chance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Coloniality of Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception
This article reflects on my experience of being suspended and reinstated. It demonstrates how administrators, including those at my institution, knowingly violate academic freedom and free speech. ...
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