Marian Sawer
@mariansawer.bsky.social
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Marian Sawer
@mariansawer.bsky.social
· Oct 26
Feminist governance – here to stay, or gone tomorrow?
Since 1975, feminists have helped establish new international frameworks requiring national governments to promote gender equality. Success at this level, writes Marian Sawer, inadvertently sowed the ...
theloop.ecpr.eu
Just starting work on book for Edward Elgar: 'Understanding Feminist Governance'. Came across the article I did for The Loop about populist pushback and the risks of feminist success at the transnational level of governance, seems more relevant than ever: theloop.ecpr.eu/feminist-gov...
Marian Sawer
@mariansawer.bsky.social
· May 22
The war on woke: continuity and change in Australian anti-elitist discourses
The ‘War on Woke’ is the latest form of populist anti-elitist discourse in Australia. It includes a number of elements already analysed 20 years ago such as the role of the Murdoch print media in c...
www.tandfonline.com
Kurt Sengul and I have just published our article on Australian populism, 'War on Woke':
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Marian Sawer
@mariansawer.bsky.social
· Apr 26
2025 - Anzac Day commemoration | One Hundred Stories -
This year, as countless thousands of refugees are uprooted from their homes and communities by armed conflict, we consider one of the greatest humanitarian movements to emerge from the Great War – an ...
onehundredstories.anu.edu.au
Terrific documentary by Bruce Scates for 110th anniversary of the Armenian genocide – which the Australian War Memorial won't acknowledge despite ANZAC connections. Very good on Edith Glanville's refugee work: onehundredstories.anu.edu.au/stories/2025...
Marian Sawer
@mariansawer.bsky.social
· Apr 25
Wonderful to see the Gender-Responsive Budgeting Casebook just published by Monica Costa and Rhonda Sharp: www.unisa.edu.au/genderbudgets Great graphics on the return of GRB around Australia since 2016.
Marian Sawer
@mariansawer.bsky.social
· Feb 16
1975 was declared International Women’s Year. 50 years on, the ‘revolution in our heads’ is still being fought
Australia was a trailblazer from the inception of International Women’s Year. But despite the gains, there are still forces pushing back against women’s empowerment.
theconversation.com
My piece on the 50 years since International Women's Year in @aunz.theconversation.com:
I had an undisclosed personal interest in this story of the intersection of national and international agendas – in 1989 I wrote Australia's report on implementing the Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies #auspol
I had an undisclosed personal interest in this story of the intersection of national and international agendas – in 1989 I wrote Australia's report on implementing the Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies #auspol
Marian Sawer
@mariansawer.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Toxic Parliaments and What Can Be Done about Them. By Marian Sawer and Maria Maley (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), 135pp. Open access or Eur 49.99 (hb).
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Lovely review of Maria and my book Toxic Parliaments in the Australian Journal of Politics and History: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Mona Lena Krook
Marian Sawer
@mariansawer.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Feminist Institution Building: Political Science and Politics & Gender | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Feminist Institution Building: Political Science and Politics & Gender
www.cambridge.org
Feminist political science has had difficulty achieving its interdisciplinary ambitions. Is the rise of feminist institutionalism providing an answer?
My latest publication for the 20th anniversary of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social explores this question:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
My latest publication for the 20th anniversary of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social explores this question:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...