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Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bath | ESRC New Investigator - Feminist Foreign Policy | https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/jennifer-thomson

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Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social · Mar 21

We're very happy that this is out in the world! And Open Access too...

@lesliewehner.bsky.social and I ask - why did Sweden and Chile adopt #feministforeignpolicy?

Leslie Wehner @lesliewehner.bsky.social · Mar 21

Finally out in Politics & Gender! Please read & share this work with @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social

“The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Cases of Chile and Sweden” doi.org/10.1017/S174...

We study the conditions that made possible the formal adoption of a Feminist Foreign Policy 🇨🇱🇸🇪

The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Cases of Chile and Sweden | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Cases of Chile and Sweden

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 25d

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.

Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29d

‘Putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather jacket and watching UFC seems to build gender solidarity. It remains unclear whether young men will do better under Trump, but at least they will feel pandered to.’

Emily Witt on Andrew Tate and the manosphere: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Witt · Do you feel like a failure? In the Manosphere

The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and...

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David S. Moon @daimoon.bsky.social · Aug 29

🚨 Job @ Bath 🚨

The Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies at @uniofbath.bsky.social is hiring a teaching focused lecturer w. experience in IPE & Enviro Politics (1 year fixed term)

Closing date: 8 Sept
Interview date: 18 Sept
Start date: 29 Sept

www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

AP12990 Lecturer in International Political Economy - Jobs at Bath

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Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social · Sep 3

And another Notes from the Field now up in our Special Section on #feministforeignpolicy - Dani Sepulveda on PEFAL and FFP in Chile

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Civil Society and Feminist Foreign Policies in Latin America | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Civil Society and Feminist Foreign Policies in Latin America

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · Sep 3

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣

For our upcoming issue on feminist foreign policy, Daniela Sepúlveda overviews the work of the Platform for Feminist Foreign Policy in Latin America and the role of civil society in advancing FFP.

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Notes from the Field article "Civil Society and Feminist Foreign Policies in Latin America" by Daniela Sepúlveda.
Introduction begins: In the 1980s and 1990s, many Latin American countries transitioned from dictatorships to democracies, paving the way for the structural redesign of their foreign policies. In response to sustained feminist mobilization in civil society, by the 2000s several of these countries had established gender divisions in their Ministries of Foreign Affairs. These divisions prioritized the incorporation of gender equality norms in their national and international legal obligations and established protocols to implement gender equality measures. As part of this process, there was also a push for increased participation of women in the foreign policy arena, especially in Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Uruguay (Fuentes-Julio et al. 2022).

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Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social · Sep 3

Great piece of writing - really balanced attempt to understand a very complex political figure.

Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · Sep 3

"In the de-Sturgeonisation process that took place in the wake of her resignation..her relatability, gravitas & high approval ratings were forgotten; her managerialism, insularity & lack of transparency stressed." I wrote about Sturgeon's memoir & attempt to reclaim the narrative in the @lrb.co.uk

Dani Garavelli · Dance in the Rain: Sturgeon comes out swinging

It’s hard to articulate what Nicola Sturgeon’s feminism meant to someone like me who moved back to Scotland in the...

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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · Sep 2

V important to call out the strategic use of gender in anti-immigrant politics.

Our research shows femonationalism is growing across Europe -- used most (but not only!) by the far right, esp when party rivals converge on anti-immigration positions.

Working paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Sep 2

Asylum protests vs the local park run. @lgeraghty23.bsky.social runs the numbers for the Big Issue
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Revealed: Asylum hotel protests dwarfed by runners going to Parkrun

Protesters outside asylum hotels over the bank holiday weekend were vastly outnumbered by Parkrun runners, Big Issue analysis found.

www.bigissue.com

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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · Sep 2

Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence in Britain to asylum seekers. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prominent UK women tell rightwingers: stop linking immigration to sexual abuse

Exclusive: Open letter says politicians are exploiting violence against women ‘to fuel hate and division’

www.theguardian.com

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Sep 1

🎉 3 (grade 7) Lecturer positions open Cardiff University in:

🌎 Non-western (espc non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies
📝 Political theory inc history of political thought
📚 History & theory of colonialism & its legacies in politics & IR

Apply here 👉

Lecturers in Politics and International Relations (Teaching & Research) at Cardiff University

Apply now for the Lecturers in Politics and International Relations (Teaching & Research) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social · Aug 28

It was a pleasure to review Elise Stephenson’s @eliseinthewoods.bsky.social fantastic new book ‘The Face of the Nation’ - important book for anyone interested in gender and diplomacy/feminist institutionalism:

www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...

Book review: The Face of the Nation, Gendered Institutions in International Affairs - Australian Institute of International Affairs

Women are present in international affairs in ever greater numbers. In recent memory, Australia, the US, and the UK have all had (sometimes multiple) female foreign ministers. Research shows a [...]

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · Aug 26

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣

For our upcoming special issue on feminist foreign policy, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, in her piece "Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy," explores the absence of African knowledge from FFP agendas.

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Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social · Aug 22

Great PhD positions at @w-u-r.bsky.social on the ERC PERIODS project for anyone interested in the politics of menstruation, focussing on South Africa/Roma

www.wur.nl/en/research-...

Law Group

The Law Group focusses on legal solutions to social problems, including those studied in life sciences domains. These issues touch on every aspect of the law, which means that we have collective exper...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Aug 21

Good step that Chevening scholars from Gaza will be supported in getting to the UK, and hopefully this can be extended to others with university offers and scholarships
www.thetimes.com/article/bf52...

Gaza scholarship students to be evacuated to Britain

Nine Chevening scholars will be helped to leave before their courses start next month but dozens of other Palestinian students will be left behind

www.thetimes.com

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Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social · Aug 20

New Notes from the Field online from @tonihaastrup.bsky.social as part of this Special Section on #feministforeignpolicy

#OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social

Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa - cup.org/4oItz8P

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Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · Aug 19

An unregulated 'market' like this is simply very dangerous for UK HE. And underneath the top line figures, departments apparently have little say in whether they 'expand'.

Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · Aug 19

"These Russell Group unis are letting in way more students - and other unis aren't happy"

These Russell Group unis are letting in way more students - and other unis aren't happy

One London uni is accepting 65 per cent more students than it did five years ago

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · Jul 31

“Why now? Why, after twenty-two months of complacency and complicity, have some European and American elites suddenly changed their tone? The conceit that the basic facts or circumstances have changed—that real alarm was inappropriate until now—defies all serious analysis.”

Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review

The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Aug 11

What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest

Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · Aug 11

Letter of the day (in the Times)

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · Aug 6

One of the students in Gaza with a funded university place in the UK has written about her story for @aljazeera.com: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Accepted but trapped: Why won’t the UK evacuate its students from Gaza?

Palestinian students in Gaza who earned places at top UK universities are being stranded by political indifference.

www.aljazeera.com

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Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨New on the Blog:

After 25 years of bipartisan commitment to Women Peace & Security, the UK gov't suddenly seems loath to mention or fund it. @tonihaastrup.bsky.social
& @jamiejhagen.bsky.social make the case for gender equality & inclusion in UK policy.

rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/08/04/2...

25 Years of Women, Peace and Security in the UK: An opportunity to align feminist commitments at home and abroad

After a quarter-century of bipartisan British commitment to the Women Peace and Security agenda, the current Labour government suddenly seems loath to mention or fund it. Toni Haastrup and Jamie Ha…

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · Aug 1

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣

For our upcoming issue on #feministforeignpolicy, @leclerck.bsky.social explores why the Canadian 🇨🇦 government has not delivered on a formal FFP despite its promises to do so.

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Notes from the field article "Feminist Government but No Feminist Foreign Policy: The Curious Case of Canada" by Katrina Leclerc.
Article begins: In June 2017, Canada launched its feminist international assistance policy (Government of Canada 2017). The policy came less than two years after the election of Justin Trudeau’s majority government, following a decade of funding cuts and targeted rollbacks of the feminist movement (Stinson Reference Stinson2015). In addition to the several billion Canadian dollars committed through the policy, the emphasis on new and creative approaches to international assistance is particularly interesting (Government of Canada 2017). Rebecca Tiessen highlights the “repetitive use of specific words such as ‘new’ (mentioned 40 times), ‘innovative’ (noted eight times) or ‘innovation’ (mentioned 10 times)” (2019, 3).

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · Jul 31

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣

For our upcoming issue on #feministforeignpolicy, @karolinefaerber.bsky.social & @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social analyze how Germany 🇩🇪 represents, negotiates and reproduces its colonial past in their FFP.

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Research article "Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy" by Karoline Färber & Madita Standke-Erdmann.
Abstract begins: Recently, former colonial powers in the Global North have begun addressing their colonial pasts through their foreign policies. Some of these states pursue a feminist foreign policy (FFP). However, to date, only one FFP makes explicit mention of colonial legacies: that of Germany, adopted in 2021. How does German FFP discourse address this and what political work does this do? Contributing to critiques of coloniality in FFP, we analyze the discursive representation of Germany’s colonial past in foreign policy texts since 2021. Drawing on the socio-critical concepts theater of reconciliation by Max Czollek and remembrance superiority by Mohamed Amjahid, we find that the discourse powerfully establishes gendered notions of caring, responsible, and reflexive German statehood.

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Jul 30

Cool! "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" is no.1 on the @iajournal.bsky.social summer reading list. 👇☀️😎🥂👇 @princetonupress.bsky.social

International Affairs @iajournal.bsky.social · Jul 30

☀️ The wait is over: our summer reading list 2025 is here!

Explore our recommended selection of books, reviewed in International Affairs, to keep you company this summer: medium.com/internationa...

The International Affairs summer reading list 2025

There is nothing quite like spending the summer lost within the pages of a great book — or ten. Every year, Book Reviews Editor Mariana…

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · Jul 30

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣

For our upcoming issue on #feministforeignpolicy, Daniela Philipson Garcia & Ana Velasco Ugalde present an autoethnographic examination of Mexico's FFP asking who benefits and why.

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Notes from the Field "Solidarity or Coloniality in the Feminist Foreign Policy Knowledge Market? Lessons from Mexico" by Daniela Philipson Garcia & Ana Velasco Ugalde.
Article begins: The adoption of a feminist foreign policy (FFP) by Mexico took Mexican feminist civil society by surprise. In September 2019, without prior consultations or dialogues with local feminist civil society, the Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary announced its FFP during the 74th session of the UN General Assembly. While the UN New York City headquarters roared with applause in response to the Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary’s claim that the “Mexican government is feminist,” many feminists in Mexico interpreted the statement as an effort to pinkwash the government’s poor track record on gender equality within its borders.

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Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social · Jul 29

‘it won’t be possible anymore for the liberal American intelligentsia to run up massive intellectual and moral deficits with American power as the invisible reserve currency.’

A gloriously, righteously angry piece of writing.

Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · Jul 16

“For all its claims to superior virtue, the liberal American intelligentsia manifests very little of the courage and dignity it has expected from artists and thinkers in less fortunate societies.” —Pankaj Mishra

Speaking Reassurance to Power, by Pankaj Mishra

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