Romitesh Kant

🇫🇯🌴📚🍺 | Researching masculinities and politics | PhD in progress, tweets in process. Disclaimer: *All thoughts mine, but they like to wander*

[ConstitutionNet @ConstitutionNet]

⚖️ #Fiji’s Supreme Court opened the door to constitutional reform in 2025, setting out two tests for a new constitution: meaningful public participation and addressing democratic deficits.

Does the government’s proposed amendment bill meet these standards?

📝 Read our new analysis by @romiteshkant and @mereonic: https://t.co/Vbqni4JFCo

[devpolicy.org @devpolicy]

🚨New Devpolicy Talks podcast 🔊 Pacific democracy: global indices and lived realities

@Int_IDEA & @anudpa report + discussion between Pasifika researchers @miqurlkabuni, @AnnaNaupa & @RomiteshKant

➡️https://t.co/AHtTa1ahYx

#pacific #elections #democracy #ElectoralIntegrity

[Mere Nailatikau @MNailatikau]

A brilliant piece from @RomiteshKant on the masculine undercurrents of the Pacific #OceanOfPeace Declaration, practical implications, and a way forward.

https://t.co/JEY5L5gmbs

[Mere Nailatikau @MNailatikau]

Fiji’s only coup leader to never spend a day in jail for his actions calls it “unbecoming” when he is accurately called what he is. The caption conveyed publicly documented facts. What is “sad to see” is Rabuka’s fragility in the face of truth.

[Roshika Deo @Roshikadeo]

@nfpfiji @piotikoduaduafj are directly implicated and complict in a genocide. No spine. No morals. No humanity. And come 2026 no power. Same for @slrabuka

[Romitesh Kant @RomiteshKant]

As Gaza undergoes genocide, Fiji’s PM @slrabuka smiles and shakes hands with its architect.
@nfpfiji built its legacy opposing injustice, now props up a government cozying up to genocide. What happened to your spine?

[ConstitutionNet @ConstitutionNet]

New piece! 🇫🇯 Last month, Fiji’s Supreme Court reshaped the rules of constitutional change. By affirming the 2013 Constitution but easing its rigid amendment hurdles, the Court kept the frame while opening the door to democratic reform: https://t.co/PMcfGE2Pja

✍️ @mereonic & @RomiteshKant

[Global Environmental Change @GEC_Journal]

🌎New research: "Justice washing extractivism: Pacific Island activist perspectives on just transitions and deep-sea mining"

🌏Read this important research #OpenAccess in GEC: https://t.co/WFigZEogrd @jasontitifanue

[Romitesh Kant @RomiteshKant]

New article out in The Round Table: Fiji’s 2022 elections reconfigured, but didn’t dismantle, the masculinised foundations of power. How patriarchal authority survives reform by adapting + shapeshifting. Read here: https://t.co/9RczmO8V8J

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

"Do not tell me this is just politics. It is racism. It is hypocrisy. The genocide of my people is being watched from balconies draped with Ukrainian flags".

— #AJOpinion by Nour Elassy ⤵️
https://t.co/Pxo57knrcp

[Department of Pacific Affairs (DPA) @anudpa]

Join PhD candidate Romitesh Kant (DPA, ANU) as he explores how #masculinities shape #leadership, legitimacy & #power in #Fiji’s politics.

🗓️ Wed, 27 Aug, 10:30am - 12pm AEST
📍 https://t.co/YANWm0aiVh

@ANUBellSchool

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

As the UN meets to negotiate an international treaty to curb plastic pollution, many favour carbon credit-like offsetting.

So what is plastic offsetting, and does it work?

🔗: https://t.co/VE9gOLVVBS

[RNZ Pacific @RNZPacific]

"I believe firmly that the Forum belongs to its members, not countries that are non-members," said President Heine Monday in parliament's opening ceremony.
https://t.co/KRoB686n7c

[devpolicy.org @devpolicy]

"Female leadership, justice for gender-based violence and the cultural values of respect, care and honour are not foreign concepts: they are embedded in our Melanesian cultures," says Anna Naupa.
@anudpa @ANUasiapacific #Vanuatu #genderequality
https://t.co/6OHyCUDSZz

[Anaïs 🇳🇨 @anaisduongp]

A few years ago, I asked if people on here would be interested to read an article on Kanak women's revolutionary politics and organizing in 1970s-1980s. It's here, open access: https://t.co/y75iy9GCPQ

[Mere Nailatikau @MNailatikau]

Much needed insights from this stellar lineup of Pacific authors on strategies for increasing Pacific Islander research and authorship in the academic literature.

Appreciation to everyone making headway in this space!

@rufino_varea @RomiteshKant et al

https://t.co/HoEt3PvGSC

[RNZ Pacific @RNZPacific]

Bougainville finally gets all Rio shares in Bougainville Copper https://t.co/eiy20HYLnf

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

The people who did this to Gaza say Iran is a nuclear threat

[Lara Friedman @LaraFriedmanDC]

https://t.co/aewKWaMhuY

[Lara Friedman @LaraFriedmanDC]

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