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Rethinking Gender Equality in Global Governance pp 1–39Cite as

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Rethinking the Study of Global Gender Equality Norms: Towards a Situated Approach

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As the introduction to the edited volume, this chapter presents the wider themes and contributions of the book as well as the individual chapters. It addresses the core debate of international studies on how global norms are reproduced and changed, and presents a significant contribution in the form of a new situated approach for perceiving such processes. This approach suggests casting aside conceptualisations of norms that see these as ‘travelling’ or ‘moving’ across contexts. Instead, it underlines how the intersubjective nature of norms means that these are addressed, reproduced or changed in social interaction, and cannot be understood as existing outside such processes.

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Fejerskov, A., Engberg-Pedersen, L., Cold-Ravnkilde, S.M. (2019). Rethinking the Study of Global Gender Equality Norms: Towards a Situated Approach. In: Engberg-Pedersen, L., Fejerskov, A., Cold-Ravnkilde, S.M. (eds) Rethinking Gender Equality in Global Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15512-4_1

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