You know that episode of Community when the realise the "minus" part of their grades was made up?
This article is like that, but for global governance - we are governed by statistical guesstimates, made to look much more precise than they are in reality.
What Goodwin's reaction shows is that reactionaries claim to talk for "the people" but truly hate the people and them having a say in how things should be run
It shouldn't surprise us that reactionaries are elitist and anti-democracy obviously and yet this has been obscured through skewed coverage
ABSTRACT The Recovery and Resilience Facility of the European Union (EU) provided member states with funds to counteract the economic consequences of the pandemic and required the submission of national action plans. The EU developed guidance on how member states should apply for and use these funds, directing applicants to include a gendered analysis. While there is significant variation in the levels of gender awareness within the national plans, the Irish plan is notable in that it lacks any substantial engagement with gender considerations. Using document analysis and policy maker interviews, this article examines the causes and outcomes of this disengagement, exploring this puzzle of a lack of gender sensitive economic policy-making in Ireland. We examine why, despite direction from the EU, those charged with Ireland’s economic policy framework omitted any significant consideration of gender. Drilling down into a specific example of how gender considerations were marginalised in economic governance, we argue for understanding more about how the interpretive or cognitive lens that policy makers apply reinforces long-standing norms about what matters. We contribute to feminist political economic analysis of the EU and national policy-making, highlighting where the blockages to gender equality lie.
Why is it so hard to translate high-level committements into actual policy changes when it comes to gender equality?
Check out our newly published article - ‘It would have slowed down the work’ – the challenges of gender sensitive economic policy
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Girlduiding and Women's Institute say the law forces them to exclude trans women. But that's not true.
We are offering to indemnify them against legal risk if they change course.
If they remain trans exclusive, their members can know it's management's ideological choice.
Melinda Cooper offering up one of the best analyses of Epstein. This approach understands the deeply gendered nature of the economics of it all, and the deeply economic nature of the gender politics.
ABSTRACT The Recovery and Resilience Facility of the European Union (EU) provided member states with funds to counteract the economic consequences of the pandemic and required the submission of national action plans. The EU developed guidance on how member states should apply for and use these funds, directing applicants to include a gendered analysis. While there is significant variation in the levels of gender awareness within the national plans, the Irish plan is notable in that it lacks any substantial engagement with gender considerations. Using document analysis and policy maker interviews, this article examines the causes and outcomes of this disengagement, exploring this puzzle of a lack of gender sensitive economic policy-making in Ireland. We examine why, despite direction from the EU, those charged with Ireland’s economic policy framework omitted any significant consideration of gender. Drilling down into a specific example of how gender considerations were marginalised in economic governance, we argue for understanding more about how the interpretive or cognitive lens that policy makers apply reinforces long-standing norms about what matters. We contribute to feminist political economic analysis of the EU and national policy-making, highlighting where the blockages to gender equality lie.
Why is it so hard to translate high-level committements into actual policy changes when it comes to gender equality?
Check out our newly published article - ‘It would have slowed down the work’ – the challenges of gender sensitive economic policy
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.
But I thought he said the UK was full? 🧐
DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
Venn diagram of ‘social science airport book author’ and ‘epstein files’ getting more crowded
My article on the latest uprising in Iran has just been published in @newleftreview.bsky.social:
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Jason Blakely, "In the Land of the Data Blind"
"Political scientists subscribing to the dominant approaches to American government face what philosophers of science call an epistemological crisis..."
harpers.org/archive/2026...
Naoise has now been kidnapped by Israel.
UK universities claim to be reckoning with their imperial and colonial pasts, but refuse to see their implication in the genocidal settler colonialism of the present – so how serious are these exercises? wrote about this for @versobooks.bsky.social blog
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
We had such a great time at our Research Day this week, hearing about the fascinating work of our members. Learn more about our research here cglg.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
Learn more about the Centre from our Co-Directors, @anettestimmer.bsky.social and @mergito.bsky.social youtu.be/VtdeVX-FDBg?...
University of St Andrews - End Link With Hebrew University Open letter from staff and students Link in bio
Staff and students at St Andrews - sign the open letter calling on the university to end links with Hebrew University www.ucustandrews.org/end-links-wi...
Fascism in the UK:
- EHRC guidance that could ban trans people from public bathrooms, require service providers to 'guess' people's 'biological sex'
- An artist is charged with a terror offence for a performance
- period apps checked by police looking to prosecute abortions.
A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign
More details 👇
#transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thousands of feminist academics and educators have signed this letter in support of trans rights and against the supreme court ruling (you can still sign!) - docs.google.com/document/u/0...
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
St Andrews people - sign the letter calling on the University to condemn the Supreme Court ruling forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Rally for trans rights in St Andrews on Thursday at noon outside college gate.
See you there!
Is there a connection between the sacking of rector Stella Maris and the refusal to disclose the name of a University of St Andrews donor? Article worth reading from the University's magazine: www.thesaint.scot/post/univers...
And there it is. A shocking, appalling, and deeply disappointing announcement of an entirely unnecessary move from the university.
But this is exactly why we have already started organising .
Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars
CGLG RESEARCHER OF THE MONTH 🔍
For her ongoing work on world leaders' personalities, Prof. Juliet Kaarbo @jkaarbo.bsky.social is the CGLG's March 2025 researcher of the month!
We spoke with her about her wider research and views on global governance 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2YZ...
The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.
New online by Melinda Cooper:
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish
I'm very happy that my book 'The Politics of International Norms: A Rhetorical Approach' is out now! Thanks to everyone @cambridgeup.bsky.social, and to all those who have supported me in this journey. You can find more info in the link and this thread (1/6): cambridge.org/gb/universit...
