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International development agencies, donors and non-governmental organizations have long campaigned to end "traditional cultural practices" in Africa. Efforts to eradicate female genital cutting have been widely celebrated, promoted and replicated across |
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Name: ISA's 50th ANNUAL CONVENTION "EXPLORING THE PAST, ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE"
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| Koomen, Jonneke. "Local Politics and Global Development: Campaigns against "Traditional Cultural Practices" in East Africa" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 50th ANNUAL CONVENTION "EXPLORING THE PAST, ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE", New York Marriott Marquis, NEW YORK CITY, NY, USA, Feb 15, 2009 <Not Available>. 2009-11-04 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p312809_index.html> |
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| Koomen, J. , 2009-02-15 "Local Politics and Global Development: Campaigns against "Traditional Cultural Practices" in East Africa" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 50th ANNUAL CONVENTION "EXPLORING THE PAST, ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE", New York Marriott Marquis, NEW YORK CITY, NY, USA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-11-04 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p312809_index.html |
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Abstract: International development agencies, donors and non-governmental organizations have long campaigned to end "traditional cultural practices" in Africa. Efforts to eradicate female genital cutting have been widely celebrated, promoted and replicated across |
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| Local Politics and Global Development: Campaigns against "Traditional Cultural Practices" in East Africa Jonneke Koomen koom0003@umn.edu University of Minnesota International Studies Association Annual Convention New York February 2009 Abstract: International development agencies donors and non-governmental organizations have long campaigned to end "traditional cultural practices" in Africa. Efforts to eradicate female genital cutting have been widely celebrated promoted and replicated across the continent. This study examines campaigns against female circumcision and their local implementation in East Africa. Drawing on historical cases and my recent fieldwork in rural pastoralist villages in |
| poor and uneducated. FGM then is viewed 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 are rarely able to contribute to institutional efforts to think about FGM and campaign strategies. When female genital mutilation is inscribed as a problem of “local” culture and tradition its solutions (even |
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