| ID | 139777 |
| Title Proper | Appropriation and the dualism of human rights |
| Other Title Information | understanding the contradictory impact of gender norms in Nigeria |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Grobklaus, Mathias |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This paper conceptualises appropriation as an analytical tool to capture the contradictory nature of human rights localisation. Here appropriation is understood as the intentional reinterpretation of ideas across cultural, spatial and temporal contexts aimed at definitional power. In the first part of the paper I lay out the concept and develop an operationalisation. In the second part I apply the framework to the case of contested gender reform in Nigeria. The analysis highlights the localisation of human rights norms as an amalgam of different competing appropriating acts, leading to a hybrid and contradictory outcome that bears both transformative and stabilising potential. |
| `In' analytical Note | Third World Quarterly Vol. 36, No.6; 2015: p.1253-1267 |
| Journal Source | Third World Quarterly Vol: 36 No 6 |
| Key Words | Human Rights ; Development ; Norm Diffusion ; Appropriation ; United Nations ; Localisation ; CEDAW |