Description
Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) is growing not only in its adoption by several governments, but also in the body of scholarship that analyses it. This paper explores the current state of postcolonial feminist scholarship on FFP, by expanding the scope of analysis of ‘scholarship’ to civil society briefs, policy papers, newspaper editorials and think tank articles. By looking at scholarship beyond peer-reviewed academic journals, this article raises questions of knowledge-production processes in the Global North versus the South, with a specific focus on the Global South’s production of FFP analysis through alternative publications than academic journals. It asks—How does the political economy of postcolonial feminist FFP scholarship influence the way in which colonial hierarchies are reproduced? On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the first official adoption of FFP by Sweden, this paper seeks to comment on how these differing knowledge-production practices over a decade speak to postcolonial feminist theory, with implications on how the latter can better influence and develop an anticolonial Feminist Foreign Policy.
