Deliverable 7.5 responds to the Horizon Europe Grant Agreement’s request for a report on Inclusive Democracy, reflecting gender and intersectionality. The deliverable is composed of two mutually anchored component studies. D 7.5-A develops the Rings-on-Water (RoW) methodology through which HRJust conducted civil-society engagement across Sweden and Taiwan, and articulates the epistemological warrant that grounds that methodology in the complex-intersectional commitment developed in the companion study. D 7.5-B develops the complex-intersectional critique of how states in Taiwan, Finland, and Sweden use Human Rights Justifications (HRJs) to manage populations across the pandemic, migration, and climate axes. The present report reads the two components as a single deliverable and draws the conclusions the Grant Agreement asks for.
The Rings-on-Water methodology is the procedural expression of what the Complex Intersectional Critique identifies as the condition of inclusion itself that categories of relevance and vulnerability must emerge from engagement with real subjects rather than being imposed by the state or by the researcher in advance. This joint claim is now explicit in both components: D 7.5-B articulates the theoretical apparatus (complex intersectionality, the monist-subject critique, vulnerability theory, and the hierarchy-of-vulnerability problem); D 7.5-A, in its §2.4 and throughout its limitations and conclusions, specifies the methodological form that this apparatus takes when enacted in civil-society engagement.