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Nikita Dhawan · Elisabeth Fink Johanna Leinius Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel Editors Negotiating Normativity Postcolonial Appropriations, Contestations, and Transformations Negotiating Normativity Nikita Dhawan • Elisabeth Fink Johanna Leinius Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel Editors Negotiating Normativity Postcolonial Appropriations, Contestations, and Transformations Editors Nikita Dhawan Elisabeth Fink University of Innsbruck Goethe University Frankfurt Austria Frankfurt am Main , Hessen , Germany Johanna Leinius Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel Goethe University Frankfurt Goethe University Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main , Hessen , Germany Frankfurt am Main , Hessen , Germany ISBN 978-3-319-30983-5 ISBN 978-3-319-30984-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-30984-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016940908 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 T his work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifi cally the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfi lms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specifi c statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. T he publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland This publication was supported by the DFG funded Cluster of Excellence “Normative Orders” at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main v Contents Normative Legitimacy and Normative Dilemmas: Postcolonial Interventions .............................................................................. 1 Nikita Dhawan , Elisabeth Fink , Johanna Leinius , and Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel Part I Appropriating Transnational Norms Can the Subaltern Speak within International Law? Women’s Rights Activism, International Legal Institutions and the Power of ‘Strategic Misunderstanding’ .......................................... 27 Kiran Grewal Cultural Brokers in Post-colonial Migration Regimes ................................ 45 Sara de Jong Indigenising Democracy? Renegotiating the Role of Indigenous Political Authorities in Ghana’s Constitution Review ................................. 61 Joshua Kwesi Aikins Civil Society as a Postcolonial Project: Challenging Normative Notions in Post- confl ict Sub-Saharan Africa ................................................ 79 Simone Datzberger Undoing Subalternity? Anarchist Anthropology and the Dialectics of Participation and Autonomy ...................................... 95 Philipp Zehmisch Part II Postcolonial-Queer-Feminist Appropriations and Contestations The Re-colonization of South Asian Women’s Bodies: Normalizing Off-Label Experiments in the Pharmaceuticalization of Homebirths ....... 113 Fouzieyha Towghi vii viii Contents Motherhood, Mining and Modernity in the Peruvian Highlands from Corporate Development to Social Mobilization ............... 131 Kyra Grieco Women’s Rights in the Aftermath of Tunisia’s Revolution: New Options and Constraints for Women’s Activism in Processes of Transition ............................................................................... 147 Tanja Scheiterbauer Contested Universal R/rights: The New Family Code in Mali ................... 159 Lucia Artner and Gavaza Maluleke “Cruelty Is Uncivilized”: Consent, BDSM, and Legal Regulation of the Civil(ized) Subject ............................................................. 175 Jordana Greenblatt Part III Transformations of Development Politics Negotiating ‘Development’: Constitution, Appropriation and Contestation ............................................................................................. 191 Aram Ziai Political Economy, Subjectivity and Agency: A Materialistic Governmentality Study of Microfi nances ..................................................... 207 Dana Lüddemann Normative Confl icts in Bangladesh: Nature/Forest Conservation, Corporate Interests and the Politics of Co-management ............................ 225 Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan “We Want You to Ask Us First”: Development, International Aid and the Politics of Indebtedness ...................................... 241 Jini Kim Watson Normative Legitimacy and Normative Dilemmas: Postcolonial Interventions Nikita Dhawan , Elisabeth Fink , Johanna Leinius , and Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel Research on colonialism as well as its impact on today’s world has been at the center of critical debates throughout the last decades, contributing to major revisions of theoretical, methodological and epistemological assumptions. It has produced a wide range of research topics as well as a more nuanced understanding of the (post-) colonial1 condition (cf. Ashcroft et al. 1 989 ; Lewis and Mills 2 003 ; McClintock et al. 1 997; Spivak 1990) . However, one of the biggest diffi culties still lies in the differentiated analysis of the various operations of power, which is attentive to its complexities, yet does not refrain from the critical interrogation of supposedly “lib- erating” or “empowering” agendas. A gainst this background, this volumes aims at analyzing the interweaving of the productive as well as limiting aspects of power by employing postcolonial-feminist research perspectives, which have proven to contribute the most to (self-)critical The editors would like to express their sincere appreciation to Smaran Dayal and Lorraine Klimowich for their help and support in the editorial process. 1 Within postcolonial discourses, many terms denote hegemonic global power relations and struc- tures of domination, such as Orient/Occident, global North/global South, First World/Third World (Castro Varela and Dhawan 2015 ). The contrastive pair “the West and the Rest,” established by Stuart Hall (1992) is commonly referred to in scholarly literature as well. The current volume primarily employs the terms “global South/North,” since this pair diverges from suggesting mono- lithic entities and draws attention to the “South” within the “North” and vice versa. N. Dhawan (*) Institute of Political Science , University of Innsbruck , Austria e-mail: [email protected] E. Fink (cid:129) J. Leinius Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies, Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” , Goethe University Frankfurt , Germany e-mail: elisabeth.fi [email protected]; [email protected] R. Mageza-Barthel Department of Political Science , Goethe University Frankfurt , Germany e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 1 N. Dhawan et al. (eds.), Negotiating Normativity, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-30984-2_1
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