📣 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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I'm so happy about @karolinefaerber.bsky.social and my new article with @politicsgenderj.bsky.social 🥰. We draw on @maxczollek.bsky.social and @mamjahid.bsky.social 's work to show how claims of historical responsibility in Germany's Feminist Foreign Policy towards colonialism sustain coloniality /1

The second article, by @karolinefaerber.bsky.social and @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social, considers how Germany addresses its colonial legacy in its FFP:

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Feminist foreign policies talk equality, but local feminist peacebuilders still face donor scepticism, unstable funding & political pushback.

Without structural change, FFPs risk perpetuating the problems they claim to solve.

📝 Our new piece in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...

What an absolute pleasure it was to organise the workshop on Ambiguity in International Politics of Gender and Sexuality as part of the European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS) in Kraków. @europeanisa.bsky.social

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?

🚨 New article🚨
How is diversity linked to credibility in foreign policy? Färber’s 2025 study finds that German foreign policy discourse frames equal representation as essential to being seen as a credible actor abroad.
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Very late to announce this but I handed in my dissertation at King’s College London in October🎉🎉 More than four years of work went into this project and I’m so proud that it’s finally done!

📢I write on'Feminist Decolonial Historiography' as methodological disruptor in IR & foreign policy analysis for Feminist Foreign Policy Analysis-A New Subfield. Thank you Jacqui True & Karin Aggestam for this incredible journey filled with feminist joy!✨
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@brisunipress.bsky.social

On Wednesday, I'll have the pleasure of speaking about feminist foreign policy at the Brandeis University Center for German Studies Webinar Series, organised by Sabine von Mering and with brillant co-speaker Joyce Mushaben. Please join us!
20 Nov, 12.15 ET/6.15 CET
www.brandeis.edu/cges/news-ev...

V. good advice on how to ID & approach a potential PhD supervisor in the UK system. Big things: why this person? Why this uni? Don't blanket-email dozens of profs.

(Small bone to pick: I could not disagree more that US academics are more formal than UK academics! The opposite is true IME.)

Excited to share our article in @ejpgjournal.bsky.social on how states implementing #feministforeignpolicy need to continuously self-critically ask feminist questions and aim for feminist processes. Some food for thought for FFP states - e.g. 🇩🇪 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Der erinnerungspolitische Roll-Back ist im Gange. Anfrage der AfD zum Genozid an den Herero Nama
Übrigens ist sich die intl. Historikergemeinde einig, dass es ein #Völkermord war. Einer Historikerkommission könnte die Bundesregierung ruhig entgegensehen.
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🚩Solidarische Grüße aus Berlin - hier wurde vorhin gesagt, dass noch NIE (!) so viele Menschen aus dem Wissenschaftsbetrieb in ganz Deutschland auf der Straße waren wie in dieser Tarifrunde 🥹
#Hochschulaktionstag🚩

📣 EISA Postdoctoral Bridge Grants are back!

💸 This year we're awarding up to five grants of €3,500 each to support early career colleagues’ transition from doctoral research to academic employment.

International online launch of our report about the Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy coming up! Read more and register here: eba.se/seminars/imp...

Neue Studie: In keinem anderen untersuchten EU-Staaten erleben Schwarze so viel Rassismus wie in Deutschland. Das ist unfassbar & ein Skandal an sich, doch auch leider nichts Neues: Der Europarat kritisiert das seit Jahren.

Es betrifft vor allem die Arbeitssuche und institutionellen Rassismus.

We're starting to get critical mass from @kcl.ac.uk and @kclcgs.bsky.social here - a few accounts of young researchers you might want to follow:
@warstudent.bsky.social
@wdjames.bsky.social
@karolinefaerber.bsky.social
@bbaxendalesmith.bsky.social
@tobischolz.bsky.social