Tessa Devereaux
@tessadevereaux.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at SOAS Politics/ Conflict and Rebel Governance / Gender
Pinned
How & why do insurgents challenge gender norms during conflict? Using data on 137 armed groups and two Malian case studies, my new @iojournal.bsky.social article shows how rebels reshape local power relations by regulating gender customs. Read it here: bit.ly/3DIjRRe
@polviolencepapers.bsky.social
@polviolencepapers.bsky.social
How and why are JNIM gaining ground in Mali? My latest analysis for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/why-an-armed...
Why an armed group linked to al-Qaida is gaining ground in Mali
Decades of neglect, corruption and state brutality have allowed armed group JNIM to gain the support of Mali’s marginalised communities.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
How and why are JNIM gaining ground in Mali? My latest analysis for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/why-an-armed...
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🚨 Job Alert! We have a fascinating new project running on jihadist insurgencies in Africa, for which three research positions are open. Only five more days left to apply! Details about the three positions 👇
June 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🚨 Job Alert! We have a fascinating new project running on jihadist insurgencies in Africa, for which three research positions are open. Only five more days left to apply! Details about the three positions 👇
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#OpenAccess from the latest issue of @iojournal.bsky.social -
The Determinants of Insurgent Gender Governance - cup.org/4jjcejL
"I demonstrate that armed groups exploit pre-existing gender grievances, using strategies like punishing domestic violence..."
- @tessadevereaux.bsky.social
The Determinants of Insurgent Gender Governance - cup.org/4jjcejL
"I demonstrate that armed groups exploit pre-existing gender grievances, using strategies like punishing domestic violence..."
- @tessadevereaux.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
#OpenAccess from the latest issue of @iojournal.bsky.social -
The Determinants of Insurgent Gender Governance - cup.org/4jjcejL
"I demonstrate that armed groups exploit pre-existing gender grievances, using strategies like punishing domestic violence..."
- @tessadevereaux.bsky.social
The Determinants of Insurgent Gender Governance - cup.org/4jjcejL
"I demonstrate that armed groups exploit pre-existing gender grievances, using strategies like punishing domestic violence..."
- @tessadevereaux.bsky.social
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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
March 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Reposted by Tessa Devereaux
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
How & why do insurgents challenge gender norms during conflict? Using data on 137 armed groups and two Malian case studies, my new @iojournal.bsky.social article shows how rebels reshape local power relations by regulating gender customs. Read it here: bit.ly/3DIjRRe
@polviolencepapers.bsky.social
@polviolencepapers.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
How & why do insurgents challenge gender norms during conflict? Using data on 137 armed groups and two Malian case studies, my new @iojournal.bsky.social article shows how rebels reshape local power relations by regulating gender customs. Read it here: bit.ly/3DIjRRe
@polviolencepapers.bsky.social
@polviolencepapers.bsky.social
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I've written my thoughts down about one of Trump's many executive orders: condemning South Africa on baseless grounds.
South Africa's Expropriation Act does not constitute anything other than a regular piece of legislation.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/...
South Africa's Expropriation Act does not constitute anything other than a regular piece of legislation.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/...
Trump has punished South Africa for something its government has not done
The US president has claimed the South African government is seizing land from white farmers. The reality is much more mundane
blogs.lse.ac.uk
March 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I've written my thoughts down about one of Trump's many executive orders: condemning South Africa on baseless grounds.
South Africa's Expropriation Act does not constitute anything other than a regular piece of legislation.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/...
South Africa's Expropriation Act does not constitute anything other than a regular piece of legislation.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/...
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Life-threatening infections in Texas have soared among women losing a pregnancy after the state’s abortion ban.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org
February 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Life-threatening infections in Texas have soared among women losing a pregnancy after the state’s abortion ban.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Heard of the #manosphere? Dr. Mariel Barnes & @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social's new @cpsjournal.bsky.social paper urges the recognition of the revived men's movement as political, and explores when different parts of the manosphere turns violent.
#GenderSky #polisky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#GenderSky #polisky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Manosphere and Politics - Mariel J. Barnes, Sabrina M. Karim, 2025
The revived men’s movement, colloquially the “manosphere,” has recently increased in prominence and influence, and has been connected to numerous instances of v...
journals.sagepub.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Heard of the #manosphere? Dr. Mariel Barnes & @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social's new @cpsjournal.bsky.social paper urges the recognition of the revived men's movement as political, and explores when different parts of the manosphere turns violent.
#GenderSky #polisky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#GenderSky #polisky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students
These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza
www.sussex.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
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Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
February 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
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JOB ALERT: I have two vacancies for fully-funded, 4 year PhD positions in my European Research Council Project “Countering Jihadi Insurgencies in Africa”; one on Nigeria, one on Mozambique. Closing date for applications 15 March 2025, start in Sept. 2025
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
PhD Positions in Political Science/Conflict Studies/African Studies (two full-time positions)
PhD Positions in Political Science/Conflict Studies/African Studies (two full-time positions, each 1.0 fte)The Institute of Political Science of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences invites ...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
January 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
JOB ALERT: I have two vacancies for fully-funded, 4 year PhD positions in my European Research Council Project “Countering Jihadi Insurgencies in Africa”; one on Nigeria, one on Mozambique. Closing date for applications 15 March 2025, start in Sept. 2025
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
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In an explainer for @goodauth.bsky.social, I share some historical and contemporary context to martial law in South Korea and Yoon's botched attempt yesterday.
goodauthority.org/news/martial...
goodauthority.org/news/martial...
South Korea's president briefly declared martial law.
President Yoon’s approval rating hit a record low, at just 19 percent, last week. So what's behind his declaration of martial law?
goodauthority.org
December 4, 2024 at 12:46 PM
In an explainer for @goodauth.bsky.social, I share some historical and contemporary context to martial law in South Korea and Yoon's botched attempt yesterday.
goodauthority.org/news/martial...
goodauthority.org/news/martial...
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jessica.substack.com/p/idaho-will...
An appeals court has ruled that Idaho can enforce most of its anti-abortion travel ban, making it the first state in the nation to do so.
An appeals court has ruled that Idaho can enforce most of its anti-abortion travel ban, making it the first state in the nation to do so.
Idaho Will Enforce Abortion Travel Ban
12.2.24
jessica.substack.com
December 5, 2024 at 12:01 AM
jessica.substack.com/p/idaho-will...
An appeals court has ruled that Idaho can enforce most of its anti-abortion travel ban, making it the first state in the nation to do so.
An appeals court has ruled that Idaho can enforce most of its anti-abortion travel ban, making it the first state in the nation to do so.
The call for the UCL Conflict & Change PhD Workshop is out! ECRs working on IR, conflict and contentious politics are invited to apply by 8 December. London 24-25 February, 2025. Apply here: conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2025
PhD workshop - call for papers — Conflict & Change
conflictandchange.org
December 5, 2024 at 11:57 AM
The call for the UCL Conflict & Change PhD Workshop is out! ECRs working on IR, conflict and contentious politics are invited to apply by 8 December. London 24-25 February, 2025. Apply here: conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2025
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ICYMI: I wrote on shifting trends in Africa’s post-coup politics @africa.theconversation.com
🚨Pleased to share my latest article, co-authored with @drpowell.bsky.social, over at The Conversation.
We unpack a concerning trend among Africa's recent military coups. The norm against military rule is dying - armies are clinching to power.
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theconversation.com/gabons-coup-...
We unpack a concerning trend among Africa's recent military coups. The norm against military rule is dying - armies are clinching to power.
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theconversation.com/gabons-coup-...
Gabon’s coup leaders have changed the constitution to entrench their power – it’s a growing trend in west Africa
Coup leaders in Gabon are using democratic tools to extend their stay in power.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2024 at 2:38 PM
ICYMI: I wrote on shifting trends in Africa’s post-coup politics @africa.theconversation.com
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It is an absolute shame that Anthony Bourdain is not alive for this moment
November 30, 2023 at 1:59 AM
It is an absolute shame that Anthony Bourdain is not alive for this moment