Rethinking Gender Equality in Global Governance The Delusion of Norm
“A very valuable and much needed book on a central element in the processes of social change: the construction and reconstruction of social norms as they move between global and local levels.” —Naila Kabeer, London School of Economics and Political
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LARS ENGBERG-PEDERSEN, ADAM FEJERSKOV, AND SIGNE MARIE COLD-RAVNKILDE
RETHINKING GENDER EQUALITY IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
The Delusion of Norm Diffusion
Rethinking Gender Equality in Global Governance
Lars Engberg-Pedersen · Adam Fejerskov · Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde Editors
Rethinking Gender Equality in Global Governance The Delusion of Norm Diffusion
Editors Lars Engberg-Pedersen Danish Institute for International Studies Copenhagen, Staden København, Denmark
Adam Fejerskov Danish Institute for International Studies Copenhagen, Staden København, Denmark
Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde Danish Institute for International Studies Copenhagen, Staden København, Denmark
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Preface
This book originates in a research programme on global norms of gender equality and development organisations. During the past twenty years, numerous international agreements have tried to shape international development cooperation in terms of both its goals and its means. At the same time, new public and private actors from all parts of the world have begun to engage in development cooperation, which is no longer a matter of rich countries in the North providing aid to poor countries in the South. Given these developments, the research programme sought to analyse how seven substantially different aid agencies (the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation, Danida— Denmark’s official development cooperation, Islamic Relief Worl
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