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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 2d

💥 Explore the full Special Section #FeministForeignPolicy in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social. Thanks to all contributors! @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social @nwelfens.bsky.social @karolinefaerber.bsky.social @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social @balnik.bsky.social @hlmuehlenhoff.bsky.social

Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration? Examining Exclusions in Germany’s FFP Guidelines | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration? Examining Exclusions in Germany’s FFP Guidelines

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 2d

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📄 Final Article
“Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration?”
@hlmuehlenhoff.bsky.social, L. Popovic & @nwelfens.bsky.social explore exclusions around migration in Germany’s FFP guidelines.
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Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration? Examining Exclusions in Germany’s FFP Guidelines | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration? Examining Exclusions in Germany’s FFP Guidelines

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 2d

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📝 Notes from the Field
Daniela Sepúlveda offers insights on civil society & FFP across Latin America.
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Civil Society and Feminist Foreign Policies in Latin America | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Civil Society and Feminist Foreign Policies in Latin America

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 2d

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📝 Notes from the Field
"A Perspective from Africa" by @tonihaastrup.bsky.social critiques the coloniality of FFP and the exclusion of African knowledges. #OpenAccess
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Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 2d

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📄 Article #2
@karolinefaerber.bsky.social & @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social investigate how Germany engages with its colonial past in its FFP.
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Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 2d

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@thomsonjennifer.bsky.social & @lesliewehner.bsky.social trace how Sweden & Chile came to adopt #FFP.
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#FirstView #FFP #OpenAccess

The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Cases of Chile and Sweden | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Cases of Chile and Sweden

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 2d

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📝 Notes from the Field #2
Daniela Philipson Garcia & Ana Velasco Ugalde explore civil society's role in FFP in Mexico.
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Solidarity or Coloniality in the Feminist Foreign Policy Knowledge Market? Lessons from Mexico | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Solidarity or Coloniality in the Feminist Foreign Policy Knowledge Market? Lessons from Mexico

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 2d

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📝 Notes from the Field #1
@balnik.bsky.social & Younna Christiansen examine how FFP shapes donor funding + peacebuilding dynamics.
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Troubled Encounters: Feminist Foreign Policy and Donor-Implementer Relations in Peacebuilding | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Troubled Encounters: Feminist Foreign Policy and Donor-Implementer Relations in Peacebuilding

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 2d

1/ 🚨 Our intro to the Special Section on #FeministForeignPolicy is out! Co-authored w/ @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social ky.social in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social: "The Where, What & Who of Feminist Foreign Policy"
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The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy: Hierarchies of Geography, Knowledge, and Power | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy: Hierarchies of Geography, Knowledge, and Power

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · Aug 18

In Berlin, an exhibition of the paintings of Lovis Corinth – deemed ‘degenerate’ by the Nazis – makes for a gripping show about why the work is where it is and whose hands it has passed through on the way, writes Matthew Sperling

The cancelled, confiscated, vindicated art of Lovis Corinth

The story of how the painter’s ‘degenerate’ works did or didn’t return to Berlin’s Nationalgalerie makes for a gripping show, writes Matthew Sperling

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 6

Happy b’day, “American Idiot” — released as a single 21 years ago today, and written in the wake of the Iraq War.

“The country had gone into a war based on lies,” said Billie Joe Armstrong, “and no one seemed to care. .. It was a song that came from a very honest, pissed-off place.”

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · Jul 31

📣 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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Research article "Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy" by Karoline Färber & Madita Standke-Erdmann.
Abstract begins: Recently, former colonial powers in the Global North have begun addressing their colonial pasts through their foreign policies. Some of these states pursue a feminist foreign policy (FFP). However, to date, only one FFP makes explicit mention of colonial legacies: that of Germany, adopted in 2021. How does German FFP discourse address this and what political work does this do? Contributing to critiques of coloniality in FFP, we analyze the discursive representation of Germany’s colonial past in foreign policy texts since 2021. Drawing on the socio-critical concepts theater of reconciliation by Max Czollek and remembrance superiority by Mohamed Amjahid, we find that the discourse powerfully establishes gendered notions of caring, responsible, and reflexive German statehood.

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Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik @blaetter.bsky.social · Jul 27

@yvesvenedey.de zeigt, wie Katherina Reiche der Verzögerungstaktik der Öl- und Gaslobby folgt und hofft, dass die »Fossilministerin« so ungewollt für ein Wiedererstarken der Klimabewegung sorgt. www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Jul 23

Julia Klöckner ist als Bundestagspräsidentin bemerkenswert um "Neutralität" besorgt. Jetzt will sie Anstecker verbieten. Doch was heißt "Neutralität" hier eigentlich?

GÜNTER FRANKENBERG macht sich auf die Suche nach einem parlamentarischen Neutralitätsbegriff.

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Zitat aus dem Artikel von Günter Frankenberg: "Der Bundestag ist nicht die Schweiz, 'Neutralität' ist nicht neutral."

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thanks a lot for your kind words! We are very much indebted to your work ☺️

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 22

thanks Columba :)

Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thank you @tonihaastrup.bsky.social , @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social and @columbaachilleos.bsky.social for guiding us through the editorial process and for letting us be part of the Special Issue!

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 21

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Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 21

practices of restitution and reconciliation all too often are tied to a 'prosperous future', sidelining justice and prioritising German economic benefit. Thus, coloniality remains a part of Germany's FFP, contributing to what @maxczollek.bsky.social coined a "theater of reconciliation". /5

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 21

Emphasizing a 'shared history' with formerly colonised states, the discourse violently erases legacies and ongoing expressions of German histories of violence. Historical responsibility with a feminist veneer becomes a vehicle to create the impression of a responsible German state. Yet, /4

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 21

We find that feminist principles of care and listening - core elements to FFP - serve to stabilise a historically responsible German Self that is a champion in reckoning with its past; a notion that @mamjahid.bsky.social calls "remembrance superiority". /3

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 21

To date, Germany's FFP remains the only one mentioning its colonial history and the need to overcome postcolonial hierarchies in its foreign policy. How, then, did German FFP mobilise historical responsibility narratives - a central element to post-1945 German foreign policy? /2

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 21

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

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · Jul 3

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

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thomas ruttig @thomasruttig.bsky.social · Jul 1

bitte unterzeichnet mit: rettet das tucholsky-museum in rheinsberg

Max Czollek @maxczollek.bsky.social · Jul 1

Gerade wurde eine Petition gestartet, die auf die aktuelle Situation hinweist, u.a. die illegale Hinhaltetaktik des Bürgermeisters. Offenbar hofft er auf diese Weise, einen neuerlichen Skandal zu vermeiden. Wenn wir das alle liken & teilen, wird das nicht klappen 2/
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Rettet das Tucholsky Museum in Rheinsberg

Das Kurt Tucholsky Literaturmuseum ist das einzige Tucholsky-Museum in Deutschland. Im Mittelpunkt seiner Arbeit steht das Sammeln, Bewahren, Erforschen und Präsentieren von Zeugnissen über das Leben ...

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