Zoe Pflaeger Young
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Zoe Pflaeger Young
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Skills Developer. Former Lecturer in IR. Researching IPE and development, coffee, fair trade and gender. Also gender in the profession.
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While focus has understandably been on what Trump is destroying and the deathly consequences for women we also need to pay attention to the new global health governance the global right is building
bmj.com The BMJ @bmj.com · Mar 6
Trump’s attacks on women’s health are embedded in a global right wing agenda.

The Trump administration's alternative model of global health multilateralism will damage women's health, writes @profsophieharman.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
March 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In their new Critical Perspectives article Neema Begum, Michael Bankole, Shardia Briscoe-Palmer, @dangodshaw.bsky.social & Rima Saini introduce the concept paradoxical representation to understand the actions of ethnic minority officeholders.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Critical perspective article entitled "Skinfolk, but Not Kinfolk? Paradoxical Representation Among Ethnic Minority Conservative Political Elites in the UK" by Neema Begum, Michael Bankole, Shardia Briscoe-Palmer, Dan Godshaw & Rima Saini. First paragraph reads: As the number of ethnic minority politicians increase across countries like the United Kingdom and the United States, so too have instances in which these officeholders act against the communities they descriptively represent. In this contribution, we introduce the concept of paradoxical representation which we argue functions through neoliberal, post-racial scripts of color-blindness and meritocracy. Similar to research on gender representation which calls into question assumptions that substantive representation will follow unproblematically from women’s descriptive representation (Celis and Childs 2012), we argue that ethnic minority representatives can act as “post-racial gatekeepers.” This means paradoxically working against rather than for marginalized ethnic minority groups (Saini, Bankole, and Begum 2023). Through political discourse and policymaking, these representatives construct and “gatekeep” hegemonic ideas around race, racism, gender, and migration.
December 13, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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Relevant to some of the orientalist discourse reacting to the fall of Assad 👇

"From discourse to practice: Orientalism, western policy and the Arab uprisings": academic.oup.com/ia/article/9...
Abstract of my article in International Affairs "From discourse to practice: Orientalism, western policy and the Arab uprisings"
December 9, 2024 at 10:10 AM