Rianne Mahon

I have worked on the politics of industrial and labour market restructuring in comparative perspective; child care politics, cross-national and transnational; the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as a source of social, gender and labour market policies. Current projects include migration, gender and the work of care (a major Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council project headed by Professor Ito Peng) and the incorporation of feminist ideas into the OECD’s social, migration and labour market policies and development assistance.

• CIGI Chair in Comparative and Transnational Social Policy and Governance, since 2010.
• Kerstin Hesselgren visiting professorship, Swedish Research Council 2009-2010.
• Faculty of Public Affairs Research Achievement Award 2009.
• Chancellor’s Professor, Carleton University , 2006-2009.
• University of Auckland Distinguished visitor 2002.
• Hilda Neatby prize for best publication in women’s history, awarded by the Canadian Historical Association 2000.
• Davidson Dunton Research Achievement Public Lecture, Carleton University 2001.
• Research Achievement Award, Carleton University 1995-1996.
• John Porter Publication Prize Carleton University 1983.
• Scholarly Achievement Award Carleton University 1983.

I have supervised theses in a wide range of areas particularly having to do with the political economy of scale, labour, gender, industrial restructuring, social policy, childcare politics and global social governance. I have done a lot of work on Sweden and Canada and have a strong interest in Latin America and North East Asia. I have just received a SSHRC research grant on the gendering of development assistance, according to the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee and am also part of a larger project on migration, gender and the work of care, with a particular focus on the international governance of migrant care workers.

Books

• Advanced Introduction to Social Policy (with Daniel Béland). Edward Elgar 2016
• Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Global Governance Challenges, co-edited with Simon Dalby, Sue Horton and Rianne Mahon co-editors, with Diana Thomaz. Routledge
• After '08: Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis, co-edited with Gerard Boychuk and Stephen McBride, UBC Press Toronto and Vancouver 2015
• Feminist Ethics and Social Politics: Toward a New Global Political Economy of Care, Co-edited with Fiona Robinson, UBC Press Toronto and Vancouver: 2011
• Leviathan Undone: Towards a Political Economy of Scale, co-edited with Roger Keil, UBC Press Toronto and Vancouver: 2009
• The OECD and Transnational Governance, co-edited with Stephen McBride, UBC Press Toronto and Vancouver: 2008

Chapters in Books

• ‘Not There Yet: The struggle for universal childcare in Canada,’ (with contribution from Michael Prince) chapter for Universality and Social Policy in Canada, D Béland, G. Marchildon and M. Prince, eds. U of Toronto Press June 2019
• ‘Gender Equality from the MDGs to the SDGs: The Struggle Continues,’ with Sara Taylor in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Global Governance Challenges Sue Horton, Simon Dalby and Rianne Mahon co-editors with Diana Thomaz. Routledge April 2019.
• Introduction (with S.Horton and S. Dalby) 2019 to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Global Governance Challenges Sue Horton, Simon Dalby and Rianne Mahon co-editors, with Diana Thomaz. Routledge
• ‘Shaping the Way IOs “See” Gender Equality: the OECD and ECLAC’, Handbook on Gender Sheila Shaver ed. Edward Elgar fall 2018
• ‘Welfare Regimes and Citizenship Regimes – A Comparison’ for Citizenship as a Regime – Canadian and International Perspectives M. Paquet, N. Nagels and A-C. Fourot, eds. McGill-Queens University Press fall 2018
• ‘Gendering Development Assistance: The OECD’s DAC’ in The OECD: Warden of the West? co-edited by Matthias Schmelzer and Mathieu Leimgruber Palgrave Macmillan December 2017
• ‘The OECD’s Search for a New Social Policy Paradigm: From Welfare State to (Gendered) Active Society,’ in Analyzing Social Policy Language: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives Daniel Béland and Klaus Petersen eds. Policy Press Bristol and Chicago: 2014
• ‘Child Care, New Social Risks and the New Politics of Redistribution in Ontario’ in The Failing Redistributive Politics Keith Banting and John Myles eds. UBC Press Toronto and Vancouver: 2013

Articles in Refereed Journals

• ‘Broadening the Social Investment Agenda: The OECD and the World Bank’ Global Social Policy 19:1-2 pp. 121-138 August 2019
• ‘The OECD, the World Bank and Transnational Care Chains: A “Wicked Problem”’ Current Sociology special issue on ‘The Global Sociology of Care and Care Work’, B. Aulenbacher, H. Lutz, B. Riegraf editors. 2018 66(4) pp. 562-576
• ‘Integrating the Social into CEPAL’s Neo-Structuralist Discourse’ Global Social Policy 15(1) 2015 pp. 3-22