Editors’ Introduction
| Author | Brian Bow,Greg Donaghy |
| Date | 01 September 2020 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0020702020965929 |
| Published date | 01 September 2020 |
| Subject Matter | Editorial |
Editors’ Introduction
The editorial staff of International Journal (IJ) is saddened by the loss of one of our
editors-in-chief, Dr. Greg Donaghy, who died suddenly, and much too young, on 1
July 2020. Greg’s passing is a devastating loss for his family and friends, for IJ, for
the Bill Graham Centre, and for the broader community of scholars who worked
with Greg during his long career in the foreign ministry’s historical section
and afterward. He was a dedicated and widely-respected researcher, advocate,
and mentor, and he will be deeply missed.
Many excellent reflections on Greg’s life and work have already been published,
but we wanted to provide an additional tribute through research, to be published in
the journal. Susie Colbourn and I are now working on bringing together a special
collection of articles by some of Greg’s many friends and colleagues, inspired by
some of the core themes in his scholarly work. We hope to get that into print as
soon as possible.
This issue—the third from IJ’s 75th year—features two collections of articles
which Greg and I had been working on before he passed. The first is a group of
articles critically reflecting on Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy
(FIAP), brought together by Rebecca Tiessen, Heather Smith, and Liam Swiss, in
collaboration with a group of very promising junior scholars. The three guest
editors begin the collection with a very brief introduction, which lays out some
of the core conceptual, political, and ethical problems revealed in the Trudeau
government’s pursuit of FIAP. The first full article is by Jessica Cadesky, who
locates FIAP in relation to ongoing debates between feminist scholars and links
those debates to questions about program coherence and effectiveness. This is
followed by Erin Aylward and Stephen Brown’s essay, which looks at the consid-
eration of LGBTQI concerns within Canada’s FIAP. They find that, while sexual
orientation and gender identity receive only sporadic attention in FIAP docu-
ments, there have been some recent efforts to address them in development
policy; these efforts need to be broadened and properly integrated into government
policy. Next, Sam Morton, Judyannet Muchiri, and Liam Swiss undertake a dis-
course network analysis of FIAP’s core documents, to try to uncover the kind of
feminism embedded there, and find that the Trudeau government’s FIAP doesn’t
really reflect an intersectional approach. Then Sheila Rao and Rebecca Tiessen
look into the way that partner organizations in the Global South have perceived
International Journal
2020, Vol. 75(3) 291–293
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