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Mageza-Barthel provides a context sensitive analysis of how
Rwanda's women's movement used the United Nations (UN) gender norms
in its efforts to insert gender-specific demands in the
post-genocide period. The overall goal of these women - and their
supporters - has been to further gender equality and equity in
Rwanda. This study details which political processes could be
engendered. It further illustrates why certain gender norms were
adopted and adapted, whereas others were not. The study addresses
issues of global governance in gender politics through such
international frameworks as CEDAW, the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action, as well as Resolution 1325. These instruments
have been brought forth by a transnational women's movement to
benefit women and women's rights across the globe. It shows how
these gender norms were introduced, adapted and contested locally
at a crucial time of the transformation process underway. Concerned
with the interplay of domestic and international politics, it also
alludes to the unique circumstances in Rwanda that have led to
unprecedented levels of women's political representation. Which
tools have been the most significant in women's mobilisation and
how these relate to precedents set within international relations
is of interest to a wide community of scholars and policy-makers
alike.
Mageza-Barthel provides a context sensitive analysis of how
Rwanda's women's movement used the United Nations (UN) gender norms
in its efforts to insert gender-specific demands in the
post-genocide period. The overall goal of these women - and their
supporters - has been to further gender equality and equity in
Rwanda. This study details which political processes could be
engendered. It further illustrates why certain gender norms were
adopted and adapted, whereas others were not. The study addresses
issues of global governance in gender politics through such
international frameworks as CEDAW, the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action, as well as Resolution 1325. These instruments
have been brought forth by a transnational women's movement to
benefit women and women's rights across the globe. It shows how
these gender norms were introduced, adapted and contested locally
at a crucial time of the transformation process underway. Concerned
with the interplay of domestic and international politics, it also
alludes to the unique circumstances in Rwanda that have led to
unprecedented levels of women's political representation. Which
tools have been the most significant in women's mobilisation and
how these relate to precedents set within international relations
is of interest to a wide community of scholars and policy-makers
alike.
This volume presents the critical perspectives of feminists,
critical race theorists, and queer and postcolonial theorists who
question the adoption of European norms in the postcolonial world
and whether such norms are enabling for disenfranchised communities
or if they simply reinforce relations of domination and
exploitation. It examines how postcolonial interventions alter the
study of politics and society both in the postcolony and in
Euro-America, as well as of the power relations between them.
Challenging conventional understandings of international politics,
this volume pushes the boundaries of the social sciences by
engaging with alternative critical approaches and innovatively and
provocatively addressing previously disregarded aspects of
international politics. The fourteen contributions in this volume
focus on the silencing and exclusion of vulnerable groups from
claims of freedom, equality and rights, while highlighting
postcolonial-queer-feminist struggles for transnational justice,
radical democracy and decolonization, drawing on in-depth
empirically-informed analyses of processes and struggles in Asia,
Africa, Europe and Latin America. They address political and social
topics including global governance and development politics;
neo-colonialism, international aid and empire; resistance,
decolonization and the Arab Spring; civil society and social
movement struggles; international law, democratization and
subalternity; body politics and green imperialism. By drawing on
other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, this book
both enriches and expands the discipline of political science and
international relations. Primary readership for this volume will be
academics and students concerned with globalization studies,
postcolonial theory, gender studies, and international relations,
as well as political activists and policy-makers concerned with
social and transnational justice, human rights, democracy, gender
justice and women's rights.
This volume presents the critical perspectives of feminists,
critical race theorists, and queer and postcolonial theorists who
question the adoption of European norms in the postcolonial world
and whether such norms are enabling for disenfranchised communities
or if they simply reinforce relations of domination and
exploitation. It examines how postcolonial interventions alter the
study of politics and society both in the postcolony and in
Euro-America, as well as of the power relations between them.
Challenging conventional understandings of international politics,
this volume pushes the boundaries of the social sciences by
engaging with alternative critical approaches and innovatively and
provocatively addressing previously disregarded aspects of
international politics. The fourteen contributions in this volume
focus on the silencing and exclusion of vulnerable groups from
claims of freedom, equality and rights, while highlighting
postcolonial-queer-feminist struggles for transnational justice,
radical democracy and decolonization, drawing on in-depth
empirically-informed analyses of processes and struggles in Asia,
Africa, Europe and Latin America. They address political and social
topics including global governance and development politics;
neo-colonialism, international aid and empire; resistance,
decolonization and the Arab Spring; civil society and social
movement struggles; international law, democratization and
subalternity; body politics and green imperialism. By drawing on
other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, this book
both enriches and expands the discipline of political science and
international relations. Primary readership for this volume will be
academics and students concerned with globalization studies,
postcolonial theory, gender studies, and international relations,
as well as political activists and policy-makers concerned with
social and transnational justice, human rights, democracy, gender
justice and women's rights.
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