Jan Marc Morawe

‘How do I really want to be as a man?’ Masculinities, critical consciousness, and contraceptive decision-making – findings from an interview study in Germany This paper examines how men in Germany reflect on (their) masculinities in the context of contraception and family planning. Through twelve qualitative interviews, three of which were couple interv...

My second journal article is out in Culture, Health & Sexuality. It is the final paper of the MANFOKUS project. Our paper examines how men in Germany reflect on (their) masculinities in the context of contraception and family planning.

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On the Example: The Need for a Complementary Contraposition to Giorgio Agamben’s Theorization of the Exception Giorgio Agamben’s theorization of the exception marks a shift in geographical scholarship and other social sciences. I argue, however, that although equally crucial, the example remains a surprisin...

I am excited share my new paper in the @Annals of the AAG! Open access, feel free to download from here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This week @CCFamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by @TheSocietyPages.bsky.social, I ask 3 Q with Chris Bjork and William Hoynes More Than Just a Game: How the Youth Sports Industry Is Changing the Way We Parent and What to Do About It

Check it out: thesocietypages.org/ccf/

Operationalising masculinities in theories and practices of gender-transformative health interventions: a scoping review - International Journal for Equity in Health Gender-transformative health interventions that involve men and boys are gaining global reach, adaptability to specific geographical, population and epidemiological contexts, public endorsement, and c...

See here for the full article Operationalising masculinities in theories and practices of gender-transformative health interventions: a scoping review

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Effectiveness of behavior change interventions for smoking cessation among expectant and new fathers: findings from a systematic review - BMC Public Health Background Smoking cessation during pregnancy and the postpartum period by both women and their partners offers multiple health benefits. However, compared to pregnant/postpartum women, their partners...

Systematic review paper on behavior change interventions for smoking cessation among expectant and new fathers. bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

‘That Sounds to Me Like You Are Making This Too Complicated …’: Reflections on a Social Media Recruitment Effort for a Study on Masculinities and Contraception - Julia Zielke, Jan Marc Morawe, Alev Na... This reflection focuses on the methodological and ethical challenges encountered during the recruitment stage in a focus group and interview study that sought t...

See here for the full article ‘That Sounds to Me Like You Are Making This Too Complicated …’: Reflections on a Social Media Recruitment Effort for a Study on Masculinities and Contraception

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How nuclear power hurts the Greens: Evidence from German nuclear power plants What are the electoral consequences of nuclear energy for Green parties? Despite the centrality of nuclear opposition to Green party platforms, and th…

1/ New paper out in Electoral Studies with @heikekluever.bsky.social and @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social
We show that nuclear power plants reduce electoral support for Green parties in Germany.
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A thread on the paper:

How do parties tailor their campaign ads to women? 🗳️👩

Excited to share that my paper on how parties adapt their ads is out now at @thejop.bsky.social!

📖 Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

A quick breakdown of the findings ⬇️🧵

As women became a larger share of undergraduate student bodies in the United States over the course of the 20th century, research on gender-related topics increased in science as a direct result.

Techno-legal geographies: consumer drone misuse and harms Drones increasingly feature beyond battlefields, deployed across civil, commercial and hobbyist applications and contexts. So too are off-the-shelf consumer drones increasingly being misused. From ...

📢 New article - 'Techno-legal geographies: consumer drone misuse and harms'. Louise Hooper
@gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and I reflect on the legal dimensions of off-the-shelf drone incidents and the potential diversified harms accompanying them.
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Exploring Young Trans and Non-binary People’s Strategies and Spaces for Navigating Marginality in the United Kingdom: A Novel Resilience, Resistance, and Restoration Framework Amid recent, unprecedented sociopolitical scrutiny and hypervisibility of young trans people in the United Kingdom, this article considers how trans youth develop individual and collective mechanis...

Amidst the bleakness, I've just published an article exploring how young trans people are dealing with life in the UK @geographers.bsky.social. Do read to understand more about how trans youth are navigating & thriving in these times. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Untangling hope labour from care labour: LGBT+ people navigating equality, diversity and inclusion work in higher education This article reports on the ‘Whose Rainbow?’ project, exploring LGBT+ staff and students’ conflicted relationships to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) work in UK Higher Education (HE). Drawi...

The first 'Whose Rainbow?' project publication!

Whose Rainbow? explored LGBT+ staff & student experiences of rainbow symbolism & EDI schemes in HE.

In this paper, we think specifically about the extra labour required of LGBT+ people (to survive!) in HE.

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Congratulations to my colleague @cescatp.bsky.social on her recent publication!

Cesca's environmental scan of 50+ online sperm donation sites will support our ongoing research here at LBU.

Interested in family-making beyond the fertility industry? Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...

Breakthrough study: COVID-19 reactivates dormant breast cancer, triggering deadly metastasis. Cancer survivors who got COVID had 4.5× higher cancer-related deaths and 1.4× greater breast cancer. MASK UP!! Protect yourself from Covid, which is airborne

Sexuality and gender change efforts in Malaysia – proximal stressors and mental ill-health amongst LGBT+ adults Despite growing international criticism of actions and efforts to change sexual orientation and gender identity, such efforts remain prevalent in Malaysia. Using data from a nationwide community-ba...

Grateful that this paper was published after 3 rejections. Conclusion: Conversion practices have detrimental effect on mental health among LGBTQ+ Malaysians.
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New preprint with @cmparreira.bsky.social and Lindsay Walsh posted to @socarxiv.bsky.social: "From Protest to Parliament: Lebanon’s October Revolution and the Rise of Movement Parties." Link: osf.io/preprints/so...

Evaluating the transition: once more with feeling The reviewed books attempt systematic evaluations of the transition from communism but come to very different conclusions, ranging from catastrophe to success. They tend to lay blame for the proble...

I love everything about @andrewroberts.bsky.social’s review of four recent books on the postcommunist transition. We know a LOT about the 90s that goes beyond facile references to “neoliberalism” or the “Washington Consensus.” Anyone tempted to work on the period would do well to start with this 👇.

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🔖GSP25.2 📷 is here! We are excited to announce: Our Standard Issue has been published!
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Chapter 18 A Place Like No Other: Exploring the Relationship between Amusement Parks and Queer Men in the Midwest Abstract This chapter investigates the queerness of rural amusement park spaces, challenging the assumption that queer spaces are exclusively urban. Through film analysis of Todd Stephens’s Edge of Se...

So thrilled to share my book chapter on amusement parks and queer sexualities in the Midwest—a piece very close to my heart, and rooted in my own coming out as a gay man from Germany thanks to my time in the Midwest over a decade ago. #LGBTQ #Pride #QueerStories #Gay #Love

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Happy to share that our paper on corpus analysis of sustainability statements in fashion is out, finally. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... We also identified seven greenwashing indicators commonly used by fashion firms. All examples come from our purpose-built corpus.

“You Are Not Alone”: Feminist Memorialization and the Present Tense of Gender-Based Violence in the Monument Quilt | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: Vol 50, No 4 Abstract In recent years a new tide of memorials dedicated to victim-survivors of gender-based violence has started to rise across the world. In this article, we analyze a significant example of this ...

I have a new article out today in Signs, co-authored with Phoebe Martin, titled ‘You Are Not Alone: Feminist Memorialisation and the Present Tense of Gender-Based Violence in the Monument Quilt.’ www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Reframing Gender‐Inclusive Language in German Education: Politics, Pedagogy, and Possibilities Recently in Germany the question of gender-inclusive language has become another front in the culture wars. Headlines portray these linguistic innovations as disruptive and unnecessary while politici...

In spite of all the professional chaos lately, I'm pleased to see this piece out today in early view and open access in Unterrichtspraxis. It's the culmination of a couple of years of writing and thinking about these issues, which are more important now than ever. Out in print later this year!

Book review Published in Small Wars & Insurgencies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

A sincere thank you to Dr. Lawrence Cline for their review of my book, The Combination of All Forms of Struggle: Insurgent Legitimation and State Response to FARC, in Small Wars and Insurgencies. It's wonderful to see parallels drawn to the FMLN 👇

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My article about the crossover between human rights discourse, West German diplomacy and the Red Army Faction during the 1970s is out now in Journal of Contemporary History!

Read it here (open access):

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Breaking the Mould: Economic Utopias as Pathway to Peace Extensive research shows how neoliberal economic policies, enforced through international peacebuilding interventions, exacerbate inequality and undermine their intended goal of fostering peace. Ye...

I am really excited to share my new article at @jisb.bsky.social

"Breaking the Mould: Economic Utopias as Pathway to Peace"

I argue that economic policy for peacebuilding needs to escape the ever same prescriptions and instead become an inventory of emancipatory possibilities.

Negotiating Masculinities and Marginality: Gender, Power, and Agency in Kashmir and Assam This paper is a review essay discussing two seminal works – Contesting Masculinities and Women's Agency in Kashmir by Amya Agarwal and Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculini...

Just popped in here to say thanks for a close reading of my book and this kind review essay written by three independent researchers based in Kashmir.

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📢 new 🔓open access paper in Language Teaching @cambup-linguistics.bsky.social with @tonymcenery.bsky.social, "Corpus linguistics for language teaching and learning: A research agenda". You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/S026... and a short thread below ⬇️ on what it addresses

The first paper of our special issue on Understanding Oneself Through Others is out! Anna Drożdżowicza and J.P. Grodniewiczb on epistemic injustice and psychotherapy 🤓 @eabyrne.bsky.social #philsky

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Stop Calling It ‘Revenge Porn’. Hermeneutical Injustice in Image-Based Sexual Abuse Scholars and activists have introduced the notion of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) to describe any act involving the non-consensual production, distribution, or threat of distribution of private ...

Marco Viola & Eleonora Volta - 'Stop Calling It ‘Revenge Porn’. Hermeneutical Injustice in Image-Based Sexual Abuse'