New Special Issue published: (Re)Writing Global Gender Norms – The Role of Southern Actors
02/12/2025Dr. Philipp Gieg, together with Soumita Basu (South Asian University, New Delhi) and Peace Medie (University of Bristol), has edited a special issue of the journal Women's Studies International Forum. Entitled "(Re)Writing Global Gender Norms: The Role of Southern Actors", the issue brings together six articles demonstrating how Global South actors have informed globally negotiated gender norms.
The Special Issue traces back to a workshop held as part of the M.S. Merian - R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies "Metamorphoses of the Political" (ICAS:MP), in which the Chair of International Relations and European Studies has been involved for several years. Dr. Philipp Gieg is a committee member of the ICAS:MP module "The Challenge of Gender".
The Global South's Role in Writing Global Gender Norms
Global gender norms are negotiated and written in international arenas, with the participation of state and non-state actors. However, these norms are often associated with intellectual traditions, historical and cultural processes, and policy interests of the Global North; practices and histories from the Global South are often side-lined. The Special Issue presents evidence-based critique of such power asymmetries, and demonstrates how Global South actors have informed globally negotiated gender norms. Contributions on/from Africa, Asia and Latin America spotlight insights for realizing progressive and more effective norms, that emerge from the contestations between the local and the global. The focus is not only on ‘vertical’ intersections, but also ‘horizontal’ ones whereby transformative gender politics in one part of the world can inspire efforts of the marginalized elsewhere.
Articles in the Special Issue
- Introduction to the special issue - (Re)writing global gender norms: The role of southern actors
Soumita Basu, Philipp Gieg, Peace A. Medie
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- Navigating restrictions: External funding and WPS implementation
Doris Asante
- Embodying global gender norms: A decolonial and diasporic reading of domestic workers' activism in Brazil
Natália Maria Félix de Souza, Marina Rongo Barbosa
- “Young people are having sex, whether we like it or not”: Youth countering politicized cultural differences in sexuality education in Addis Ababa
Sara Kolah Ghoutschi
- Women, peace and security: Digitalization and cyber feminist solidarity building in the global South
Luna K.C., Crystal Whetstone
- Contextualizing universal norms: Evaluating Nigeria's National Action Plans on UNSCR 1325 and women's lived realities in rural areas
Onyinyechukwu Durueke
