Localization in Development Aid (eBook, ePUB)

How Global Institutions enter Local Lifeworlds
Redaktion: Bonacker, Thorsten; Zimmer, Kerstin; Heusinger, Judith von

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together the work of scholars from different disciplines including sociology, political science and anthropology, and analyses how global institutions are embedded in local contexts within development cooperation. It examines theoretical and empirical implications of the diffusion and anchoring of world polity institutions at local and global levels. Themes and topics covered include: children and human rights, gender mainstreaming, multi-level governance, anti-corruption programming, local ownership, land rights and corporate social responsibility. This book will be an invaluable resource for scholars of localization and globalization studies, and international relations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317203162
• Artikelnr.: 47382062

Autorenporträt

Thorsten Bonacker is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Institute for Sociology and the Center for Conflict Studies at Marburg University, Germany. Judith von Heusinger is a Junior Researcher at Center for Conflict Studies at Marburg University, Germany. Kerstin Zimmer is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology and Peace and Conflict Studies at Marburg University, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
[Thorsten Bonacker / Judith von Heusinger / Kerstin Zimmer]
The Localization of Human Rights
Multi-level Actor Partnerships for Implementing Children's Rights
[Andrea Schapper]
Framing the Position of Social Media in the Local Institutionalization of
International Human Rights Norms
[Reilly Anne Dempsey & Benjamin Mason Meier]
Japan's Experience in Localizing Human Rights in Post-conflict Nepal
[Miho Taka / Maiko Takeuchi / Sachiko Goto Kamidohzono]
The Localization of Gender
Appropriating Gender: The Ambivalent Effects of Nigeria's CEDAW
Implementation
[Mathias Großklaus]
How the Localisation of Macrocultural Concepts can Reinforce Gender
Inequalities.
A Case Study on the Localisation of Reproductive Health in Cambodia
[Thorsten Bonacker / Judith von Heusinger]
Hybridization and the Case of a "Successful" Gender Mainstreamed
Community-based Disaster Management Project in Cambodia
[Franz F. Wong]
The Localization of Agency
Localizing Rebellion - International Development Agencies and the Rise of
the Indigenous Movement in Ecuador
[Philipp Altmann]
Strengthening Civil Society through Development Cooperation?Localizing
Participation in Post-Suharto Indonesia.
[Felix Anderl]
Victims, Victors and Saviours: The Politics of Aid and Women's Rights in
Zimbabwe
[Manase Kudzai Chiweshe / Sandra Bhatasara]
The Localization in Economic Development Cooperation
The Localization of CSR Norms: Development Agencies and the Promotion of
Responsible Business Conduct in China
[Melanie Coni-Zimmer]
From (Un-)Employment to Employability: Localized Neoliberal Norms and the
Politics of Proper Progress in Sierra Leone
[Anne Menzel]