The digital storytelling of feminist foreign policy: Sweden’s state feminism in digital diplomacy

This article interrogates the digital storytelling of Sweden’s feminist foreign policy. Drawing on scholarship state feminism and diplomacy, it shows how platforms offer opportunities to reproduce narratives through storytelling. We propose that diplomacy is used advance policy emotional sense-making requires telling personal stories. The provides a narrative analysis stories women girls symbolise embody policy, way in which they are communicated by Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. concludes noting allows Affairs communicate wider audience. These stories, however, run risk obscuring ambitions insufficiently considering gendered injustices undergird global gender order bringing together seemingly incompatible exceptionalism success.