"Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy" - my new @OUPAcademic book - explains why gender interventions after conflict fall short. The beautiful cover by Timorese artist Maria Madeira, was chosen because it takes me right back to fieldwork in Timor 1/

A privilege to be reviewed by @SelverBSahin in the @JDevStudies I hope that other readers of Rebuilding Patriarchy also feel it provides a helpful analytical framework for understanding post conflict interventions

@SelverBSahin @JDevStudies Great to see this Selver :) lovely to be reviewed by you

It’s a real honour to close out the year with a @ppesydney blog on our new article in @EuroJournIR 🌍 It’s also convenient for busy-types who want the TLDR version: feminist dialects to understand the morbid symptoms of patriarchy in crisis

@timeshighered A grant of one’s own?

RT @EuroJournIR: Read @drMelJohnston and @SaraMeger's latest article in EJIR, which offers an insight into the nature of patriarchy as a st…

@hozic @SaraMeger Thanks Aida :) we’d be so keen to hear what you think

@HilaryMatfess @SaraMeger Thanks Hilary. More bangers in the text ;-)

@TomChodor @SaraMeger Thanks Tom ☺️ and thank you for being a great sounding board in its creation

a shared economy in which all men possess property in a women’s person, in contrast to previous modes of patriarchal control in individual households/states. Control is atomised, diffuse & stochastic, such that women’s resistance has no clear object against which to organise. End

We demonstrate the method through the study of men’s #VAW Each instance of men’s violence against women occurs as a singular event. However, we must recognise the common identity of these various occurrences as parts of a whole – the totality of men’s VAW 5/

With feminist dialectics, we understand patriarchy through its internal contradictions in different gender regimes in different contexts I.e the means to study patriarchy both as a ‘thing’ (the universal ordering logic of social relations) and as a relation evolving over time 4/

Using levels of abstraction, we can understand patriarchal interpersonal relationships and operations of patriarchy at the national level (as a gender regime), while still recognising patriarchy as the ordering condition of the international 3/

Structural theorising is out of fashion in feminist IR, but feminist dialectics helps analyse patriarchy as the ordering logic of human social relations over time & across contexts, while holding space in analysis for differences in form and changes to its general character 2/

Highly recommended reading!!