LIST OF PANELS

With many post-industrial democracies undergoing dramatic shifts to the right, a few states, such as Canada, New Zealand, and Iceland, for example, stand out on the world stage for their explicit commitment to progressive, specifically feminist, politics. Indeed, the Prime Ministers in these countries have expressly committed to improving the lives of women and marginalized groups through their established feminist policy agendas. While these developments appear promising, the literatures on state feminism, state engagement, and feminist public administration remind us of the potential contradictory effects that result when states take up and deploy feminist knowledge. Towards this end, the objectives of this panel (which is one of two proposed panels on feminist governance and policy) are as follows:

• to explore the factors that have contributed to the re-emergence of feminism as a political force;
• to investigate and unpack what feminism means in these contexts and how it is practiced;
• to explore how feminist knowledges are taken up and deployed by governments and its effects;
• to understand how feminist mobilization is resisting populist forces

With many post-industrial democracies undergoing dramatic shifts to the right, a few states, such as Canada, New Zealand, and Iceland, for example, stand out on the world stage for their explicit commitment to progressive, specifically feminist, politics. Indeed, the Prime Ministers in these countries have expressly committed to improving the lives of women and marginalized groups through their established feminist policy agendas. With this panel, we seek to understand the emergence of these feminist policy agendas, particularly against the current backdrop of right-wing radicalism, as well as their associated processes and content. How might we explain the (re)emergence of feminism as a political force in contemporary politics? What does feminism mean in these contexts? How has it shaped policy discourses, architectures, processes, and outcomes? Towards this end, we invite papers that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
 
· Feminism in policy practice: policy analysis, consultation/deliberation, implementation and evaluation
· Feminist policy in practice: feminist expertise, policy outcomes, etc.
· Feminist political discourse: what does it mean, who is included, etc.
· Backlash against feminism
· Protest politics and social movements
· Governance feminism/feminist governance
· Intersectionality in feminist policy and institutions