Polycentricity and framing battles in the creation of regional norms on violence against women

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ID21409693
AuthorsAnna Van Der Vleuten (0000-0002-1156-9185, Radboud University; University of Antwerp, corresponding author), Conny Roggeband (0000-0003-0060-734X, University of Amsterdam; FLACSO Ecuador), Anouka Van Eerdewijk (0000-0003-2115-0860, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT); Radboud University)
Year2021
Volume35
Issue1
Pages126-146
Publication date2021-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Relations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0047117820942944
OpenAlexW3043163922
LanguageEN
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In Latin America and Southern Africa, norms on violence against women have developed with ups and downs, not simply in reaction to global norms, but sometimes even preceding global norm diffusion or surpassing it in terms of scope, framing and binding character. The classic global-to-local account with a single source of norm creation cannot capture these dynamics. Including the regional level in a dynamic model of norm diffusion enables us to understand the changing contents of a norm and to acknowledge transregional agency. We show (1) how norm contestation is an ongoing, multidirectional and polycentric process; (2) how the regional level opens up opportunities for feminists and femocrats; and (3) under which conditions regional norms can be both more progressive than global ones and more adapted to regional needs, and, in turn, are thus able to strengthen the ‘global’ norm

Economic geography · Framing (construction) · Geography · Norm (philosophy) · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Sex work and related issues

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