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The contours of masculinity: leadership, ethnicity, and gendered power in Fiji’s 2022 elections

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dc.contributor.authorKant, Romiteshen
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-17T07:40:57Z
dc.date.available2025-12-17T07:40:57Z
dc.date.issued2025-09-01en
dc.description.abstractThis article examines how political masculinities were performed, contested, and institutionalised during and after Fiji’s 2022 general elections. Drawing on political masculinities, decolonial critique, and intersectional analysis, it traces how racialised and militarised masculinities shaped leadership legitimacy across campaign rhetoric, coalition dynamics and the post-election landscape. Based on qualitative fieldwork, the study reveals how dominant, dominating, and complicit masculinities were rearticulated through imagery, rhetoric, and reconciliation rituals. It argues that Fiji’s political transition reconfigured, but did not dismantle, the masculinised foundations of power, offering critical insights into how patriarchal authority adapts within postcolonial, multi-ethnic democracies.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the Australian National University. The Routledge/Round Table Commonwealth Studentship supported fieldwork for this paper, enabling in-depth research in Fiji.en
dc.description.statusPeer-revieweden
dc.format.extent23en
dc.identifier.issn0035-8533en
dc.identifier.otherORCID:/0000-0001-9242-2128/work/198509235en
dc.identifier.scopus105014925679en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733795701
dc.language.isoenen
dc.provenanceThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.en
dc.rights © 2025 The Author(s).en
dc.sourceRound Tableen
dc.subjectFiji electionsen
dc.subjectgender and poweren
dc.subjectmilitarisationen
dc.subjectpatriarchyen
dc.subjectPolitical masculinitiesen
dc.titleThe contours of masculinity: leadership, ethnicity, and gendered power in Fiji’s 2022 electionsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dspace.entity.typePublicationen
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage630en
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage608en
local.contributor.affiliationKant, Romitesh; Gender Institute, Director Ias/Chair Board Ias, The Australian National Universityen
local.identifier.citationvolume114en
local.identifier.doi10.1080/00358533.2025.2547255en
local.identifier.pure3e451727-4606-4ac0-b225-cc97a3ca9a34en
local.identifier.urlhttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105014925679en
local.type.statusPublisheden

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