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Unlocking the agency of the governed: contestation and norm dynamics
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Abstract International Relations (IR) research on the translation and appropriation of international norms emphasises both the role of local agency and the fundamental malleability of norms. However, these perspectives cannot unlock the full agency of the governed as they limit agents' effects on norms to in... view more
International Relations (IR) research on the translation and appropriation of international norms emphasises both the role of local agency and the fundamental malleability of norms. However, these perspectives cannot unlock the full agency of the governed as they limit agents' effects on norms to incremental changes at the margins. We suggest to transcend the distinction between the local and the global by taking practices of contestation as constitutive for normative agency. In such a perspective, we can differentiate types of contestatory practices and analyse how they affect the normativity of norms.... view less
Keywords
standard; normativity; international relations
Classification
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science
Free Keywords
norm research; norm translation; contestation; agency; practice
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 691-708
Journal
Third World Thematics, 2 (2017) 5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2017.1396912
ISSN
2379-9978
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications