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Scrutinizing Feminist Foreign Policies through the lenses of decolonial feminism and feminist degrowth
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Language, Literature and Intercultural Studies (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1559-6305
2025 (English)In: Globalizations, ISSN 1474-7731, E-ISSN 1474-774X, p. 1-19Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Combing scholarship on decolonial feminism and feminist degrowth, this article offers a critique of neoliberal feminism in Feminist Foreign Policies (FFPs). Drawing on twenty-six expert interviews from nineteen countries of the Global South and seven policy documents of FFP states from the Global North, the article explores four critiques of FFPs: ‘monologue instead of dialogue’, ‘liberal democracy instead of popular democracy’, ‘liberal feminism instead of intersectional feminism’, and ‘profit instead of nature’. These critiques show that FFPs fail to build egalitarian rather than hierarchical relations between states, treat nature as a source of human life rather than as a commodity, acknowledge gender as only one of many other inequalities, and address cross-border inequalities through a global public authority. The article argues that FFP shortcomings present barriers to decolonizing the existing political, economic, social, and cultural structures of the state and the international system. 

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Taylor & Francis, 2025. p. 1-19
Keywords [en]
decolonial feminism, feminist degrowth, Feminist Foreign Policy, global development, neoliberal feminism
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Other Social Sciences Development Studies Gender Studies Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified Political Science (Excluding Peace and Conflict Studies) Other Geographic Studies
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Gender Studies; Intercultural Studies; Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-106367DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2025.2540719ISI: 001545351500001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105012576086OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-106367DiVA, id: diva2:1985961
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Sweden as a Norm Entrepreneur: The Case of the Feminist Foreign Policy
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Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P19-0712:1Available from: 2025-07-29 Created: 2025-07-29 Last updated: 2026-02-12Bibliographically approved

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