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Mel Johnston
@drmeljohnston.bsky.social
Lecturer in Politics at The University of Queensland. Political Economy | Feminism | Violence Against Women | Southeast Asia
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🚨 @ipegbisa.bsky.social book talk 🚨
🌟26 June

@drmeljohnston.bsky.social - 2024 IPEG Book Prize winner - presenting her book 'Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy: The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste' 📚

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Book talk: IPEG book prize 2024 winner, ‘Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy'- International Political Economy (IPEG) | BISA
- International Political Economy (IPEG) Working Group
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June 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Moving beyond the ornamental assertion of class and patriarchy as relational, @drmeljohnston.bsky.social delivers a BIG contribution to current debates on capitalist patriarchy with this latest article in @ripejournal.bsky.social
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The political economy of patriarchal accumulation
This paper investigates an empirical puzzle in brideprice that raises issues for social reproduction approaches’ unitary framework of ‘capitalist-patriarchy’. In Timor-Leste, brideprice averages ar...
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June 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
In between summer relaxation here in the antipodes, Miranda Melcher and I discussed my book, Rebuilding Patriarchy, for the New Books Network.

Listen for more on patriarchal bargains, critique of the local turn, and how microfinance cannot help doing harm.

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Melissa Johnston, "Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy: The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste" (Oxford UP, 2023) - New Books Network
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January 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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In the history of patriarchy’s reconstitution, actors appear twice: first as tragedy, then as farce.
Yet there are things that happen to women that the existence of capitalism cannot explain. We offer feminist dialectics to illuminate the internal relations of & transformation to global patriarchy.
First as Tragedy, then as Farce: The Dialectics of Global Patriarchy - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
In our new paper “Morbid Symptoms: A Feminist Dialectics of Global Patriarchy in Crisis,” published in the European Journal of International Relations, we introduce feminist dialectics as a theory and...
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December 9, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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A huge welcome to the brilliant @drmeljohnston.bsky.social!
Anyone interested in critical political economy, gender, development and security would do well to give her a follow.
January 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM