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This study examines the proliferation of global governance campaigns against female genital mutilation. Drawing on fieldwork in Northern Tanzania, I examine the complex local politics and implications of these global initiatives. |
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| Koomen, Jonneke. "The Local Politics of Global Governance: Campaigns Against FGM" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference, Palmer House Hotel, Hilton, Chicago, IL, Apr 03, 2008 <Not Available>. 2010-01-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p267948_index.html> |
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| Koomen, J. , 2008-04-03 "The Local Politics of Global Governance: Campaigns Against FGM" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference, Palmer House Hotel, Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2010-01-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p267948_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This study examines the proliferation of global governance campaigns against female genital mutilation. Drawing on fieldwork in Northern Tanzania, I examine the complex local politics and implications of these global initiatives. |
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| Jonneke Koomen | 24 March 2008 The Global Governance of Culture: International Organizations National NGOs Grassroots Activists and Campaigns against Female Circumcision in East Africa Jonneke Koomen Department of Political Science University of Minnesota koom0003@umn.edu Paper Prepared for The Mid-West Political Science Association Annual Conference Chicago 3 April 2008* (Work in progress. Please do not cite without prior permission.) 1 Jonneke Koomen | 24 March 2008 “Cultures are continually co-produced in the interaction I call friction: the awkward unequal |
| campaigners invariably characterize it as a rural problem a problem of backwards tribes a problem of the poor and uneducated. FGM then is primarily seen as a problem of the local. These characterizations inscribe communities that practice female excision within a particular asymmetrical global-local relationship where particular cultures or locals come to be subjected to the purview of global governance. As a result these communities rarely contribute to thinking about FGM: it becomes a problem of the local and |
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