When norms collide : local responses to activism against female genital mutilation and early marriage / Karisa Cloward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cloward, Karisa, author.

Contributor:

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Female genital mutilation--Kenya--Case studies.

Female genital mutilation.

Child marriage--Kenya--Case studies.

Child marriage.

Teenage marriage--Kenya--Case studies.

Teenage marriage.

Maasai (African people)--Kenya--Social life and customs.

Maasai (African people).

Samburu (African people)--Kenya--Social life and customs.

Samburu (African people).

Social influence.

Social norms--Kenya.

Social norms.

Human rights advocacy--Kenya.

Human rights advocacy.

Manners and customs.

Kenya.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Many transnational campaigns, and particularly the transnational campaign on violence against women, promote international norms that target the behavior of local nonstate actors. But these international norms are often at odds with local practices. What happens when the international and local norms collide? When does transnational activism lead individuals and communities to abandon local norms and embrace international ones? In When Norms Collide, Karisa Cloward presents a path-breaking theoretical framework for understanding the processes by which individuals negotiate competing demands placed on them by international and local norms. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with local communities in Kenya, she applies the theory to the practices of female genital mutilation and early marriage. Cloward argues that, when faced with international normative messages, individuals can decide to change their attitudes, their behavior, and the public image they present to international and local audiences. Moreover, the impact of transnational activism on individuals substantially depends on the salience of the international and local norms to their respective proponents, as well as on community-level factors. Book jacket.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. A theory of local-level responses to international norm promotion

3. FGM and early marriage in Kenya

4. Creating local awareness of international norms

5. Fostering local attitude change

6. Facilitating local primary behavior change

7. Explaining local misrepresentation of normative commitments

8. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-305) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780190274955

0190274956

Publisher Number:

99967065795

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.