The leader, the competitor, and the protector: tracing (neo)colonial and gendered logics in the European Green Deal.
Despite the growing interest in the (neo)colonial and gendered dimensions of the European Union's (EU) foreign policy, the European Green Deal (EGD) has received relatively limited attention in this scholarship. We aim to contribute to this literature by advancing a postcolonial feminist reading on...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 35; no. 6; pp. 1436 - 1457 |
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Aug2026
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