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Jennifer Thomson

@thomsonjennifer.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bath | ESRC New Investigator - Feminist Foreign Policy | researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/person…

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Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Period Politics (by me, @dr-mel-channon.bsky.social and @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social) is available for pre-order! Everything you ever wanted to know about menstrual justice and injustice worldwide 🩸 🩸 🩸 🩸 🩸
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Period Politics
Period Politics - Inside the Global Fight for Menstrual Justice
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/07/2026
We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🚨🎉 Briefly interrupting mat leave to share the publication of our edited book on Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP), co-edited with @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social ⬇️ bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/feminist-for... 📖 The book is available open access #FeministForeignPolicy
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Feminist Foreign Policy
Feminist Foreign Policy - Energy and Resistance; Since Sweden launched the world’s first Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP), the concept has become ubiquitous in foreign policy studies and practice. This b...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
‘Before being forced to flee their homes, the Romanians, some 20 families in all, had lived in the affluent (and reasonably mixed) Lisburn Road area of south Belfast.’ I wrote this in *2009* in the Irish times N I has had a racism problem for a long time www.petergeoghegan.com/2009/08/06/r...
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Racist attacks on Roma are latest low in North’s intolerant history – Peter Geoghegan
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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Our new open access titles cover topics such as feminist foreign policy, migration, climate change, diversity, economic justice and more. 🔓 #Feminist #Migration #ClimateChange #Diversity ow.ly/nEGa50Zalmq
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/06/2026
27 people were made homeless after Tuesday night's violence in Belfast, including children.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 10/06/2026
‘We are living under a kind of house arrest, unable to go out, with an oppressive sense that an assault could occur at any moment.’ New from Luqman Saeed in Belfast: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
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Luqman Saeed | In Belfast
It isn’t an exaggeration to say that we are living under a kind of house arrest, unable to go out, with an oppressive...
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 30/05/2026
"short of the arrival of some kind of Noah’s Ark, the British university as we know it is destined for extinction sooner rather than later." Lorna Finlayson in Sidecar, @newleftreview.bsky.social. 4/4
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Lorna Finlayson, Irreversible — Sidecar
On Britain’s universities.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
“what happens at the BL is, mostly, the wrong kind of research. It’s about the dull old humanities, not the cutting-edge sciences. It mostly looks backwards, not forwards. So it’s regarded, not least by our political leaders, as a backwater.”
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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🚨 NEW REPORT! 🚨 What is the state of the UK academic job market in politics, and what does this mean for the field and #highered? In a new @psaecn.bsky.social report, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social @williamlallen.bsky.social and I find worrying trends in job adverts and HESA data from 2012-25 #PSA26
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Academic Job Market Trends in Politics and International Relations - Political Studies Association
Academic Job Market Trends in Politics and International Relations: Evidence from the UK, 2012-25 Authored by: Dr Ralph Scott, Dr Lawrence McKay, and Dr William Allen Read the full report here   Execu...
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Yep. In fact, the real failing of students was when we stopped requiring them to regularly search a library catalogue for their reading and instead produced lists with hyperlinks that students simply had to click. As soon as they have to go off list, they’re lost.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.
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‘The law changed around me’: top Sudanese students blocked from UK universities by visa ban
High-achieving applicants’ educational plans derailed by ‘emergency visa brake’
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?
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Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
A pleasure to contribute to this Forum on @drljshepherd.bsky.social and @paulcinnamon.bsky.social recent book
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H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-27 on Kirby and Shepherd, Governing the Feminist Peace Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd’s Governing the Feminist Peace is an engagement with, and evaluation of, the complexities of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda 25 years into its tenure by two scholars who…
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Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-27 on Kirby and Shepherd, Governing the Feminist Peace
Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd’s Governing the Feminist Peace is an engagement with, and evaluation of, the complexities of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda 25 years into its tenure by two scholars who have been at the forefront of its study over much of that time. It argues that previous research on WPS has several shortcomings that get in the way of scholars having a full picture of the agenda’s complexities.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
US expands Mexico City policy to bar any aid going to projects that contain gender or DEI So almost anything on poverty, rights, climate, or health www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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US to expand anti-abortion aid rule to cover 'gender ideology,' diversity
The Trump administration is set to expand the Mexico City Policy that blocks U.S. assistance to organizations that provide or promote abortions to cover groups involved in what the administration call...
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Alexis Henshaw @profhenshaw.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
📢 ISA Members: The Women's Caucus is now accepting nominations for 5 executive comm positions, including Program Chair/Incoming Chair for 2026-2028. As current program chair/incoming chair, I'd be happy to answer any questions about our work. Join us! @isanet.bsky.social
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a pikachu wearing glasses says hi on a green background ..
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
So while preparing slides was once again been reminded of this little mystery....Huge gender gaps in support for 2 parties - Reform and Greens. Both genders are more likely to support the Greens, and gender gap in Green support is larger. But all the discussion focuses on young men & Reform
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Paul Kirby @paulcinnamon.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
30,000 jobs gone in three years. Before the national insurance increase and the international student levy hits. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pay-spe...
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Pay-off spend up by two-thirds as universities shed 13,000 jobs
Analysis of UK sector accounts shows number of job losses well above predictions, with experts warning cuts are not over yet
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Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Can’t imagine I’ll read a better book this year.
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
After her last interview in @theguardian.com just last week, it's immensely sad to announce the death of Diane Munday at 94. Patron of @humanists.uk (first joining 70 years ago!), friend and mentor. Her exemplary life as an activist will be a permanent inspiration. humanists.uk/2026/01/11/h...
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Humanists UK mourns Diane Munday, leading campaigner for the Abortion Act (1931-2026)
Humanists UK is deeply saddened to announce the death of its patron, Diane Munday, who dedicated her life to social reform, most notably as the principal leader of the campaign for the Abortion Act 19...
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
'Every woman knows what I’m talking about.' Yes, we do, sadly. Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. www.guernicamag.com/rebecca-soln...
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Men Explain Things to Me
<p>Before there was <em>mansplaining</em>, there was Rebecca Solnit's 2008 critique of male arrogance. Reprinted here with a new introduction.</p>
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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Philip Larkin started writing ‘Aubade’ in 1974, & finished it in 1977 after his mother’s death. It was published in the TLS on 23rd December, apparently ruining a number of people’s Christmases. Larkin, terrified of death all his life, died on this day 1985. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/...
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Aubade
Not in remorse —The good not done, the love not given, time Torn off unused—nor wretchedly because An only life can take so long to climb Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never; But at the total...
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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy", @tonihaastrup.bsky.social explores the absence of African knowledge from FFP agendas. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 gendersky polisky buff.ly/tbJwU3s
Notes from the field titled "Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa" by Toni Haastrup.
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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Civil Society and Feminist Foreign Policies in Latin America", Daniela Sepúlveda overviews the work of the Platform for Feminist Foreign Policy in Latin America and the role of civil society in advancing FFP. gendersky polisky buff.ly/dk6nkZz
Notes from the field titled "Civil Society and Feminist Foreign Policies in Latin America" by Daniela Sepúlveda
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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In their notes from the field, "Troubled Encounters", @balnik.bsky.social & Younna Christiansen outline the challenges of implementing a feminist foreign policy in the context of peacebuilding. gendersky polisky buff.ly/XFbx7St
Notes from the field titled "Troubled Encounters: Feminist Foreign Policy and Donor-Implementer Relations in Peacebuilding" by Niklas Balbon and Younna Christiansen.
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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In her notes from the field "Feminist Government but No Feminist Foreign Policy", @leclerck.bsky.social explores why the Canadian 🇨🇦 government has not delivered on a formal FFP despite its promises to do so. gendersky polisky buff.ly/wPx0LsJ
Notes from the Field  titled "Feminist Government but No Feminist Foreign Policy: The Curious Case of Canada" by Katrina Leclerc
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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Claiming Historical Responsibility", @karolinefaerber.bsky.social & @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social analyze how Germany 🇩🇪 represents, negotiates and reproduces its colonial past in their FFP. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 gendersky polisky buff.ly/vwGJ9bg
Research article titled "Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy" by Karoline Färber and Madita Standke-Erdmann
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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy" @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social & @lesliewehner.bsky.social compare foreign policy changes in 🇨🇱 & 🇸🇪 pointing to the role of policy entrepreneurs and a favorable domestic context. Available #OpenAccess buff.ly/d2sgM4V
Research article titled "The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Cases of Chile and Sweden" by Jennifer Thomson and Leslie Wehner.
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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In the editorial "The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy", @columbaachilleos.bsky.social, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, and @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social offer a roadmap to FFP scholarship and practice. buff.ly/hHpXEiG
Editorial titled "The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy: Hierarchies of Geography, Knowledge, and Power" by Columba Achilleos-Sarll, Toni Haastrup, and Jennifer Thomson.
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Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Our special section on #feministforeignpolicy in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social is currently free to access! @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @columbaachilleos.bsky.social
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
A rare piece of good news for women www.gavi.org/news/media-r...
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Cervical cancer vaccines save over 1 million lives in lower-income countries
Major push by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and lower-income countries to extend access to the HPV vaccine has reached its target ahead of schedule.
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Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
“…if you really want to know a nation, and to experience its collective mind, instead of tying tatty flags to lamp-posts you might want to get thee to a library, any library, but especially the British Library.” From a speech Zadie Smith gave on the BL picket line. 👏👏
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New Humanist @newhumanist.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
"Only five objects we have crafted here on Earth are now drifting towards infinity, and four of them tell a lie about half of humankind" #astronomy #nasa
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Sexism in space
How should we represent humankind to aliens? With Pioneer 10 and 11, Nasa fell short. Next time, we must do better
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Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
A hilarious and terrifying read about Facebook (although Facebook have spent lots of money ensuring their name is removed from the cover and blurb.) Recommended reading for anyone who has ever used social media!
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Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Anywhere but Westminster remains some of the best political journalism in the UK. Well worth watching.
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 22/10/2025
25 years of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda - a new collection from @risjnl.bsky.social complied by Katrina Lee Koo. Browse here - cup.org/4oAmXZq cc @mybisa.bsky.social
Logo for "Review of International Studies" featuring a partial image of the Earth on a dark background, with text indicating an editor's selection by Katrina Lee Koo.
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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
💥 Explore the full Special Section #FeministForeignPolicy in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social. Thanks to all contributors! @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social @nwelfens.bsky.social @karolinefaerber.bsky.social @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social @balnik.bsky.social @hlmuehlenhoff.bsky.social
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Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration? Examining Exclusions in Germany’s FFP Guidelines | Politics &amp; Gender | Cambridge Core
Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration? Examining Exclusions in Germany’s FFP Guidelines
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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
8/ 📄 Final Article “Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration?” @hlmuehlenhoff.bsky.social, L. Popovic & @nwelfens.bsky.social explore exclusions around migration in Germany’s FFP guidelines. 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration? Examining Exclusions in Germany’s FFP Guidelines | Politics &amp; Gender | Cambridge Core
Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration? Examining Exclusions in Germany’s FFP Guidelines
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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
7/ 📝 Notes from the Field Daniela Sepúlveda offers insights on civil society & FFP across Latin America. 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Civil Society and Feminist Foreign Policies in Latin America | Politics &amp; Gender | Cambridge Core
Civil Society and Feminist Foreign Policies in Latin America
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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
6/ 📝 Notes from the Field "A Perspective from Africa" by @tonihaastrup.bsky.social critiques the coloniality of FFP and the exclusion of African knowledges. #OpenAccess 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa | Politics &amp; Gender | Cambridge Core
Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa
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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
5/ 📄 Article #2 @karolinefaerber.bsky.social & @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social investigate how Germany engages with its colonial past in its FFP. 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy | Politics &amp; Gender | Cambridge Core
Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy
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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
4/ 📄 Article #1 @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social & @lesliewehner.bsky.social trace how Sweden & Chile came to adopt #FFP. 🔗 cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView #FFP #OpenAccess
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The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Cases of Chile and Sweden | Politics &amp; Gender | Cambridge Core
The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Cases of Chile and Sweden
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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
3/ 📝 Notes from the Field #2 Daniela Philipson Garcia & Ana Velasco Ugalde explore civil society's role in FFP in Mexico. 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Solidarity or Coloniality in the Feminist Foreign Policy Knowledge Market? Lessons from Mexico | Politics &amp; Gender | Cambridge Core
Solidarity or Coloniality in the Feminist Foreign Policy Knowledge Market? Lessons from Mexico
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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
2/ 📝 Notes from the Field #1 @balnik.bsky.social & Younna Christiansen examine how FFP shapes donor funding + peacebuilding dynamics. 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Troubled Encounters: Feminist Foreign Policy and Donor-Implementer Relations in Peacebuilding | Politics &amp; Gender | Cambridge Core
Troubled Encounters: Feminist Foreign Policy and Donor-Implementer Relations in Peacebuilding
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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
1/ 🚨 Our intro to the Special Section on #FeministForeignPolicy is out! Co-authored w/ @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social ky.social in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social: "The Where, What & Who of Feminist Foreign Policy" 📖 #OpenAccess 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 👇👇👇
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The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy: Hierarchies of Geography, Knowledge, and Power | Politics &amp; Gender | Cambridge Core
The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy: Hierarchies of Geography, Knowledge, and Power
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Rebecca Turkington @rcturk.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
@saskiabr.bsky.social and I wrote in @foreignpolicy.com about the dismantling of gender equality architecture in U.S. foreign policy, including offices that were created more than six decades ago with bipartisan consensus. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/13/t...
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Trump Erases Women From Foreign Policy
The White House has overturned the decades-old bipartisan policy consensus that female empowerment serves U.S. interests.
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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
📣 2 yrs postdoc w/in project Gender Struggles in the New Conjuncture - investigates a selection of anti-gender networks & feminist LGBTQI+ networks in 5 European regions. Experience w/h ethnography/ digital network analysis & deep knowledge of language & sociopolitical contexts in Southern Europe.
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Postdoctoral researcher in Gender Studies
The Department of Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary unit within a larger division together with Sociology and Social Anthropology, situated at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund University. W
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