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Mel Johnston

@drmeljohnston.bsky.social

Lecturer in Politics at The University of Queensland. Political Economy | Feminism | Violence Against Women | Southeast Asia

158 Followers  |  175 Following  |  2 Posts  |  Joined: 10.01.2025  |  1.7491

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“Handwringing” haha

30.06.2025 21:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Book talk: IPEG book prize 2024 winner, ‘Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy'- International Political Economy (IPEG) | BISA - International Political Economy (IPEG) Working Group

🚨 @ipegbisa.bsky.social book talk 🚨
🌟26 June

@drmeljohnston.bsky.social - 2024 IPEG Book Prize winner - presenting her book 'Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy: The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste' 📚

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10.06.2025 12:38 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The political economy of patriarchal accumulation This paper investigates an empirical puzzle in brideprice that raises issues for social reproduction approaches’ unitary framework of ‘capitalist-patriarchy’. In Timor-Leste, brideprice averages ar...

Moving beyond the ornamental assertion of class and patriarchy as relational, @drmeljohnston.bsky.social delivers a BIG contribution to current debates on capitalist patriarchy with this latest article in @ripejournal.bsky.social
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06.06.2025 00:10 — 👍 22    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Melissa Johnston, "Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy: The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste" (Oxford UP, 2023) - New Books Network

In between summer relaxation here in the antipodes, Miranda Melcher and I discussed my book, Rebuilding Patriarchy, for the New Books Network.

Listen for more on patriarchal bargains, critique of the local turn, and how microfinance cannot help doing harm.

newbooksnetwork.com/building-pea...

13.01.2025 23:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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First as Tragedy, then as Farce: The Dialectics of Global Patriarchy - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) In our new paper “Morbid Symptoms: A Feminist Dialectics of Global Patriarchy in Crisis,” published in the European Journal of International Relations, we introduce feminist dialectics as a theory and...

In the history of patriarchy’s reconstitution, actors appear twice: first as tragedy, then as farce.
Yet there are things that happen to women that the existence of capitalism cannot explain. We offer feminist dialectics to illuminate the internal relations of & transformation to global patriarchy.

09.12.2024 20:25 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

A huge welcome to the brilliant @drmeljohnston.bsky.social!
Anyone interested in critical political economy, gender, development and security would do well to give her a follow.

10.01.2025 23:36 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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