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Gloria Novovic

Gloria Novovic

LSE Fellow

Department of Gender Studies

Email
g.novovic@lse.ac.uk
Languages
English, French, Italian, Serbo-Croatian
Key Expertise
Gender and Development, Global Governance, Feminist Policy, SDGs

About me

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 and development theories, I study feminist strategies within global development and the seemingly technical policy mechanisms that enable or obstruct them. Currently, I am constructing a long-term research agenda on planetary feminist solidarity in times of shared global threats.

My upcoming book discusses the impact of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Agenda 2030) on gender equality coalitions in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda. Based on the insight of 200 experts across government, civil society, and United Nations institutions, I show how high-income “donor” countries erode global commitments to national ownership of development agendas. I therefore present feminist development agendas as geared not only at the implementation of existing policy commitments but also a more radical transformation of global development mechanisms.

I further explore the questions of national sovereignty in development cooperation in my project titled Cooperate or Perish: Tracing the Coloniality of Canada’s Frameworks for International Engagement. My analysis of Canada as an ongoing colonial project points to the legislative and operational mechanisms that breach the principle of self-determination through the government approach to international cooperation abroad as well as with the Indigenous Peoples within Canada. 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), and the University of Guelph.

Prior to joining LSE in 2023, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa’s School of International Development and Global Studies. My past practitioner roles include positions 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 engage with multilateral and civil society actors in the sector.

Expertise Details

Gender and Development; Global Governance; Feminist Policy; SDGs

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Novovic, G. (2023). “Gender Mainstreaming 2.0: Agenda 2030 and New Approaches to Gender Mainstreaming”. Third World Quarterly, 44 (5): 1058-1076. doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2174848

Novovic, G. (2022). “Can Agenda 2030 deliver on “localization”? Policy limitations of Agenda 2030 in the broader global governance system”. Development Policy Review, 40 (4): 1- n/a. doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12587.

Novovic, G, & Tatham, R. (2022). “Shifting Frames: Balancing Methodological Inclusivity and
Policy Relevance of Feminist Research”. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 24 (5): 699-720. doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2021.1952887

Novovic, G. (2021). “Are SDGs Counting What Counts: Feminist Analysis of Agenda 2030’s Policy Shrinking”. Global Governance, 27 (3): 366-387. doi.org/10.1163/19426720-02703003

Book Review

Novovic, G. (2023). Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Social, Cultural, Political, and Economic Imaginaries by Paul Stubbs (eds). International Journal, 78 (3). doi.org/10.1177/0020702023119805

Novovic, G. (2015). Understanding Non-Violence. [Review of the book Understanding Non- Violence, by Hallward, M. C. and Norman, J. P]. Community Development Journal, 50 (4): 753-755.

Under Review

Novovic, G. (Under Review). The Last Wave: Avenues of International Feminist Solidarity in Times of Planetary Extinction.

Novovic, G. (Under Review). Set Up to Fail: The Moral Legitimacy of the World Food Programme’s Sisyphean Mandate of Ending Hunger.

Novovic, G. (Under Review). Fit for Feminism? Examining the Policy Capacity for Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy

In preparation

Novovic, G. (in preparation for the edited volume of the Oxford University Press Handbook of Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics). Poverty, Inequality, and Knowledge in Development Politics

Lam, S., Skinner, K., Novovic, G., Hung Nguyen-Viet. (in preparation). Avoiding Cooptation: Gender Mainstreaming Lessons for Meaningful Integration of Climate Action in Development Cooperation

Novovic, G. (in preparation for the edited volume Critical Understandings of Canada in the World). Rethinking Foreign Policy Models in Times of Shared Planetary Threats: System Mapping for Integrated Policy Design of Canada’s Global Engagement

Novovic, G. & Su, Y. (in preparation). Agenda 2030’s Limits of Cumulative Global Policy Models: Policy Capacity for Integrated Multiscalar Policy Design

Novovic, G. (in preparation). Win by losing or lose by winning: Global development co-optations as feminist international solidarity. Knowledge Mobilization Publications Technical Reports

Novovic, G. & Rava, N. (2023). Navigating Planetary Cooperation in Times of Polycrisis: Environmental Scan of Global Development. Cooperation Canada.

Novovic, G. (2021). Canada’s International Assistance: Underfunded Feminist Ambitions. In Biannual Global Report: Aid in the Context of Conflict, Fragility, and Climate Emergency. Reality of Aid Network.

Novovic, G. (2020). Canada’s International Assistance. In Alternative Federal Budget Recovery Plan: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Selected Blogs

Novovic, G. (April 2023). “Dispelling fairy tales: The Auditor General’s misinterpretation of Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy”. McLeod Group. Retrieved from: https://www.mcleodgroup.ca/2023/04/dispelling-fairy-tales-the-auditor-generals-misinterpretation- of-canadas-feminist-international-assistance-policy/

Novovic, G. (November 2022). “Cancel Disney+ and the Liberal government’s wrong approach to ‘greedflation’”. Policy Options. Retrieved from: https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/november- 2022/greedflation-wrong-liberal-approach/

Brown, S. and Novovic, G. (October 2022). “The World According to Chrystia Freeland?”. McLeod Group. Retrieved from: https://www.mcleodgroup.ca/2022/10/the-world-according-to-chrystia- freeland/

Novovic, G. and Stuart T. (April 2022). “The Future of Canada’s Global Engagement: Beyond a Rules-Based International Order?”. McLeod Group. Retrieved from: https://www.mcleodgroup.ca/2022/04/the-future-of-canadas-global-engagement-beyond-a-rules- based-international-order/

Novovic, G. (March 2022). “Rethinking Canadian Philanthropy: Emerging Paradigms of Social Justice”. The Philanthropist Journal. Retrieved from: https://thephilanthropist.ca/2022/03/rethinking- philanthropy-emerging-paradigms-of-social-justice/

Novovic, G. (March 2022). “Co-constructing an Anti-racist Agenda for Canada’s International Cooperation Sector”. The Philanthropist Journal. Retrieved from: https://thephilanthropist.ca/2022/03/rethinking-philanthropy-co-constructing-an-anti-racist-agenda- for-canadas-international-cooperation-sector/

Novovic, G. (March 2022). “In Defense of Ministerial Mandate Letters”. Policy Options. Retrieved from: https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ministerial-mandate-letters/

Novovic, G. (July 2021). “Your Guide to Official Development Assistance Accountability Act: Protecting the Legislative Environment for Canada’s International Cooperation”. Cooperation Canada. Retrieved from: https://cooperation.ca/odaaa-guide/

Novovic, G. (October 2020). “Localize or Perish: What You Need to Know About Localization”. Cooperation Canada. Retrieved from: https://cooperation.ca/localize-or-perish/

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