Acknowledgements -- Governance from a feminist psychosocial perspective -- Governing subjects, repression and equality -- Ordering differentiation : reconfiguring governance as relational politics -- The relational politics of governance -- Governing subjectivities : the politics of ontological detachment and relational connection -- The circulation and distribution of bad feeling -- Resisting the happy governmentalities of diversity -- Sustaining collective challenges to policy monoliths -- Equalities policy as relational hinterland -- Conclusions: mobilising hopeful fictions through differentiated uncertainties -- References.