I hold a PhD in Political Science and International Development from the University of Guelph (Canada). Working at the intersections of critical policy studies and decolonial feminist thought, I study multilateral initiatives to redesign the architecture of international cooperation and the seemingly technical policy mechanisms that mediate them. Currently, I am writing a book manuscript on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Agenda 2030) and advancing a long-term research project on planetary feminist solidarity.
My upcoming book presents Agenda 2030 as a stillborn project of remaking development. I observed how gender equality coalitions in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda deploy Agenda 2030 based on the insight of 200 experts across government, civil society, and United Nations, and other multilateral institutions. My book shows that, as the first universal development framework, Agenda 2030 was undermined already in 2015, when high-income countries refused to approve a mechanism of global taxation that would have created a common fund for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this context, feminist emancipatory projects are turning away from efforts to integrate gender in development and, instead, seeking to fundamentally restructure mechanisms of development cooperation.
Concurrently, I am advancing a project on Feminist Planetary Solidarity, which proposes an ontological turn away from global development and towards planetary justice. Combining feminist critiques grounded in decolonial historical materialism, political ecology, and Indigenous cosmologies, I am tracing the continuities of feminist projects of (re)constructing global governance architecture for coalitional solidarity we need to address our shared planetary crises. To move this project forward, I am co-convening a special issue on this topic with Professor Shirin M. Rai, hosted by the International Feminist Journal of Politics.
Prior to joining 杏吧论坛, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa’s School of International Development and Global Studies. My work also draws on a decade of practitioner experience, encompassing roles at the Canadian national council for international cooperation, the United Nations’ World Food Programme, and Serbian civil society. I serve on the executive committee of the Canadian Association for Studies of International Development (CASID) and participate in its Decolonizing Development Syllabus Working Group. I also engage with multilateral and civil society actors in the sector, providing training, expert advice, and policy research. My work has been supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the University of Guelph, and London School of Economics.