Melissa Johnston
Biographic Data
| ID | 3793711 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Johnston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnston |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSTON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2400-7341 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The political economy of patriarchal accumulation
Morbid symptoms
This article offers insights into the nature of patriarchy as a structuring condition of global order, and – significantly – the process of change that has enabled its endurance. We are, today, witnessing the emergence of multiple challenges to the existing order and the tying of the political campaigns of these challenges to an agenda of anti-feminism (what we term ‘patriarchal backlash’). We argue that current ructions cannot be understood in a…
War on two fronts
Critical scholars have long noted gender ideologies, gender symbolism, and gendered discourses in nationalist and ethnonationalist politics. Building on these insights and employing a historical materialist framework, the article explores the effects of the ethnonationalist state on gender. Specifically, it asks what impact does the ethnonationalist state form have on gender power relations? The article argues that ethnonationalist states’ centra…
Running on Empty
A social reproduction framework that uses depletion reveals how multiple crises intersect. We deploy this framework to examine the relationship between depletion and conflict. Drawing on research undertaken in Myanmar and Sri Lanka in early 2020, we argue that the weight of social reproduction under conflict conditions increases women's depletion. Our findings showed, however, that increased depletion was not due primarily to increased social rep…
Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy
Men and women do not experience war, violence, and peace in the same ways. Accordingly, peacebuilding interventions now incorporate “gender mainstreaming” and stand-alone “gender-and-development.” These gender interventions should make peacebuilding more effective and sustainable, facilitating stable societies and efficient economies. But success has been mixed. Timor-Leste offers an instructive case. Interventions on gender-responsive budgeting,…
Brideprice's Relationship to Conflict, Class, and Violence against Women
Emerging research shows how brideprice facilitates conflict, as young men who cannot afford brideprice join armed groups. This article provides additional evidence for the role of brideprice in conflict, and shows how it facilitates three kinds of conflict: class conflict, interpersonal violence, and violence against women. In distinction to current approaches, this paper argues that brideprice's market logics are better conceived of as structure…
Patriarchal reset” in the asia pacific during Covid-19
COVID-19 has disrupted social, economic and political life across the Asia Pacific region, with particularly deleterious impacts on women. Rather than equitably affecting all, COVID-19 has brought about a “patriarchal reset”, exacerbating women’s health and care labour burdens and heightening the physical violence against women and other threats to women’s human rights. This paper examines global health governance in the region from a feminist po…
The Lure of (Violent) Extremism
The gender dimension of violent extremism is under-studied; and “women terrorists” are stereotyped as either men’s dupes or (internet) warriors. Applying a gender lens, this study uses content analysis to examine Islamist extremist websites in Indonesia. Analysis reveals distinct recruitment language targeted at women and men, and rigid gender segregation of content and spaces. Extremists co-opt the language of women’s rights while also promoting…
Frontier finance
Microfinance programs targeting poor women are considered a ‘prudent’ first step for international financial institutions seeking to rebuild post conflict economies. IFIs continue to visibly support microfinance despite evidence and growing consensus that microfinance neither reduces poverty nor breaks the cycle of domestic violence. In the case of Timor-Leste, a feminist political economy approach reveals how microfinance engendered debt allows …
Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000–2017
Attained SCOPUS CiteScore of 1.4 in 2019.Attained Journal Citation Report (JCR) Journal Impact Factor of 0.717 in 2019.SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) 2019 for the Asiatic Region: Ranked 1st in Political Science and International Relations; 1st in History; and 3rd in Arts and Humanities.Ranked 19th by Google Scholar Metrics 2020 in the category of “Asian Studies and History”
Explaining microfinance's resilience
Microfinance has been unsuccessfully deployed as a poverty reduction strategy in the Global South. However, despite advocates acknowledging this shortcoming, the sector continues to grow. Moreover, over the past decade it has expanded its geographic scope, targeting poor communities in the Global North under the banner of financial inclusion. This article investigates the growth of the Australian sector. Analyzing the impacts of reforms to Austra…
Tanya Jakimow,Decentring Development
Running on Empty
A social reproduction framework that uses depletion reveals how multiple crises intersect. We deploy this framework to examine the relationship between depletion and conflict. Drawing on research undertaken in Myanmar and Sri Lanka in early 2020, we argue that the weight of social reproduction under conflict conditions increases women's depletion. Our findings showed, however, that increased depletion was not due primarily to increased social rep…
Frontier finance
Microfinance programs targeting poor women are considered a ‘prudent’ first step for international financial institutions seeking to rebuild post conflict economies. IFIs continue to visibly support microfinance despite evidence and growing consensus that microfinance neither reduces poverty nor breaks the cycle of domestic violence. In the case of Timor-Leste, a feminist political economy approach reveals how microfinance engendered debt allows …
Patriarchal reset” in the asia pacific during Covid-19
COVID-19 has disrupted social, economic and political life across the Asia Pacific region, with particularly deleterious impacts on women. Rather than equitably affecting all, COVID-19 has brought about a “patriarchal reset”, exacerbating women’s health and care labour burdens and heightening the physical violence against women and other threats to women’s human rights. This paper examines global health governance in the region from a feminist po…
The Lure of (Violent) Extremism
The gender dimension of violent extremism is under-studied; and “women terrorists” are stereotyped as either men’s dupes or (internet) warriors. Applying a gender lens, this study uses content analysis to examine Islamist extremist websites in Indonesia. Analysis reveals distinct recruitment language targeted at women and men, and rigid gender segregation of content and spaces. Extremists co-opt the language of women’s rights while also promoting…
Morbid symptoms
This article offers insights into the nature of patriarchy as a structuring condition of global order, and – significantly – the process of change that has enabled its endurance. We are, today, witnessing the emergence of multiple challenges to the existing order and the tying of the political campaigns of these challenges to an agenda of anti-feminism (what we term ‘patriarchal backlash’). We argue that current ructions cannot be understood in a…
Explaining microfinance's resilience
Microfinance has been unsuccessfully deployed as a poverty reduction strategy in the Global South. However, despite advocates acknowledging this shortcoming, the sector continues to grow. Moreover, over the past decade it has expanded its geographic scope, targeting poor communities in the Global North under the banner of financial inclusion. This article investigates the growth of the Australian sector. Analyzing the impacts of reforms to Austra…
Tanya Jakimow,Decentring Development
Explaining microfinance's resilience
Microfinance has been unsuccessfully deployed as a poverty reduction strategy in the Global South. However, despite advocates acknowledging this shortcoming, the sector continues to grow. Moreover, over the past decade it has expanded its geographic scope, targeting poor communities in the Global North under the banner of financial inclusion. This article investigates the growth of the Australian sector. Analyzing the impacts of reforms to Austra…
The Lure of (Violent) Extremism
The gender dimension of violent extremism is under-studied; and “women terrorists” are stereotyped as either men’s dupes or (internet) warriors. Applying a gender lens, this study uses content analysis to examine Islamist extremist websites in Indonesia. Analysis reveals distinct recruitment language targeted at women and men, and rigid gender segregation of content and spaces. Extremists co-opt the language of women’s rights while also promoting…
Frontier finance
Microfinance programs targeting poor women are considered a ‘prudent’ first step for international financial institutions seeking to rebuild post conflict economies. IFIs continue to visibly support microfinance despite evidence and growing consensus that microfinance neither reduces poverty nor breaks the cycle of domestic violence. In the case of Timor-Leste, a feminist political economy approach reveals how microfinance engendered debt allows …
Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000–2017
Attained SCOPUS CiteScore of 1.4 in 2019.Attained Journal Citation Report (JCR) Journal Impact Factor of 0.717 in 2019.SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) 2019 for the Asiatic Region: Ranked 1st in Political Science and International Relations; 1st in History; and 3rd in Arts and Humanities.Ranked 19th by Google Scholar Metrics 2020 in the category of “Asian Studies and History”
Patriarchal reset” in the asia pacific during Covid-19
COVID-19 has disrupted social, economic and political life across the Asia Pacific region, with particularly deleterious impacts on women. Rather than equitably affecting all, COVID-19 has brought about a “patriarchal reset”, exacerbating women’s health and care labour burdens and heightening the physical violence against women and other threats to women’s human rights. This paper examines global health governance in the region from a feminist po…
Brideprice's Relationship to Conflict, Class, and Violence against Women
Emerging research shows how brideprice facilitates conflict, as young men who cannot afford brideprice join armed groups. This article provides additional evidence for the role of brideprice in conflict, and shows how it facilitates three kinds of conflict: class conflict, interpersonal violence, and violence against women. In distinction to current approaches, this paper argues that brideprice's market logics are better conceived of as structure…
Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy
Men and women do not experience war, violence, and peace in the same ways. Accordingly, peacebuilding interventions now incorporate “gender mainstreaming” and stand-alone “gender-and-development.” These gender interventions should make peacebuilding more effective and sustainable, facilitating stable societies and efficient economies. But success has been mixed. Timor-Leste offers an instructive case. Interventions on gender-responsive budgeting,…
Running on Empty
A social reproduction framework that uses depletion reveals how multiple crises intersect. We deploy this framework to examine the relationship between depletion and conflict. Drawing on research undertaken in Myanmar and Sri Lanka in early 2020, we argue that the weight of social reproduction under conflict conditions increases women's depletion. Our findings showed, however, that increased depletion was not due primarily to increased social rep…
The political economy of patriarchal accumulation
Morbid symptoms
This article offers insights into the nature of patriarchy as a structuring condition of global order, and – significantly – the process of change that has enabled its endurance. We are, today, witnessing the emergence of multiple challenges to the existing order and the tying of the political campaigns of these challenges to an agenda of anti-feminism (what we term ‘patriarchal backlash’). We argue that current ructions cannot be understood in a…
War on two fronts
Critical scholars have long noted gender ideologies, gender symbolism, and gendered discourses in nationalist and ethnonationalist politics. Building on these insights and employing a historical materialist framework, the article explores the effects of the ethnonationalist state on gender. Specifically, it asks what impact does the ethnonationalist state form have on gender power relations? The article argues that ethnonationalist states’ centra…
Political science (11 works) · Economics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)