LIST OF PANELS

The objective of this panel is to explore comparative policy approaches across the Global South towards building resilience, writ large. Resilience policies have grown in popularity across international and sectoral bounds (e.g., climate, economic, supply chain, cyber resilience, and so on). However, much is yet to be understood about the emergence and nature of resilience policies from the Global South. Echoing theoretical debates between policy transfer versus policy diffusion, this panel seeks to bring together a diversity of empirical cases to enable more nuanced, comparative analyses of the kinds of resilience policies emerging in the Global South. To what extent are they unique or original relative to Global North policy counterparts? What kind of domestic and international drivers can be identified (e.g., policy funders, academic discourses, domestic politics, etc)? What do resilience policy discourses and policy-making dynamics look like when shifting across spatial levels (e.g., local, national, regional, global)?

In bringing together these diverse perspectives, this panel seeks to make three contributions to the current literature. First is in convening a more concerted view of resilience policy approaches from the Global South, in contrast to prior emphasis on Northern actors (e.g., the European Union, the United States). Second is in unpacking the black box of resilience policy-making to examine the extent to which Southern actors exhibit political agency over policy-making processes. Third is in feeding specific insights from the recent rise of resilience policy into general debates surrounding policy transfer versus policy mobility in international policy.

Papers are welcomed on resilience policy discourses and/or resilience policy-making processes in the Global South. The geographical and sectoral scope remains otherwise intentionally open-ended. Three further specifications to guide potential contributions include the following:

 (1) Papers with empirical insights centred on resilience policies as emerging from Global South actors, organisations, and/or processes. 

 (2) Papers are welcome to include analyses incorporating the Global North, so long as they do not remain exclusive or centred on Northern dynamics.

 (3) Papers with theoretical implications that respond (either directly or implicitly) to debates surrounding policy transfer versus policy mobility.