Does local resistance impact the transnational normative environment? The case of female genital mutilation (FGM)

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ID15218419
AuthorsLaçin Idil Öztığ (0000-0001-7192-193X, Yıldız Technical University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume46
Issue3
Pages352-372
Publication date2022-10-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth Care For Women International (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0739-9332 • E-ISSN: 1096-4665
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07399332.2022.2129644
PMID36194445
OpenAlexW4300980842
LanguageEN
References cited71

More than 200 million girls and women today are estimated to have gone through female genital mutilation (FGM). In this study, I make a novel contribution to the global literature on FGM by examining domestic resistance to the anti-FGM norm in the context of norm diffusion processes. I provide a novel theoretical perspective to the study of FGM by introducing a compromise-building approach. According to this approach, strong local resistance to a transnational norm that obligates the removal of harmful traditional practices might motivate some transnational norm advocates to support a compromise solution to minimize harm, leading to normative contestation in the transnational domain. This approach is illustrated by the rise of advocacy for medicalized and minor forms of FGM as a harm reduction strategy as a result of the continuation of traditional forms of FGM. The compromise-building approach also brings a new theoretical perspective to the literature on norm diffusion

Compromise · Female circumcision · Geometry · Harm · Norm (philosophy · Normative · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Social Psychology · Ecology

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