Norms and Violence Against Women in Ethiopia

We Were Never Global

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvAdam Moe Fejerskov,Lars Engberg-Pedersen,Meron Zeleke,Dereje Feyissa

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This book examines the complex subject of violence against women (VAW), moving beyond ways of thinking that privilege Western positions and subordinate local perspectives. Chapters analyse the profound clashes between different perspectives on VAW, demonstrating how actors engage with such norms in diverse places from Ethiopian villages, to government offices in Addis Ababa, to meeting rooms in the UN headquarters in New York.Norms and Violence Against Women in Ethiopia proposes a novel theoretical framework that sees norms and normative engagement through interconnected situations rather than hierarchical chains. This decolonizing approach recognizes the equal legitimacy of different normative realities without privileging Western perspectives – questioning any notion of the global as universal and the local as periphery. The result is a nuanced understanding of norm interaction and contestation that better explains both resistance to and potential for social change. Chapters cover key issues including intimate partner violence, marital rape, and child marriage, as well as the impacts of positive masculinity on gender violence.This timely book is an essential resource for scholars and students of sociology, international relations, global governance, and postcolonial studies. Providing insights on resistance to the implementation of social norms, the book is also beneficial to practitioners of international development and political sociology.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-01-20
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781035359912

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Contents1 Towards a decolonizing multi-nodal understanding of norms 1Lars Engberg-Pedersen, Adam Moe Fejerskov, Meron Zelekeand Dereje Feyissa2 Vanguardism: the limits of Ethiopia’s state feminism incombating violence against women 19Dereje Feyissa3 Global norms vs. local practices: the adjudication of intimatepartner violence cases in Addis Ababa 40Helen Abelle4 Unrecognized or silenced offence? Unveiling grassrootperceptions of marital rape and Ethiopia’s reluctance tocriminalize marital rape 60Meron Zeleke5 The role of local and global institutional actors in combatingchild marriage among girls at Quarit Woreda 78Yitaktu Tibebu6 Convergence and divergence of Ethiopian policies and globalnorms to eliminate violence against women 95Lars Engberg-Pedersen and Anchinesh Shiferaw Mulu7 The classroom as a site of norm engagement: on becoming anode in the gender normative order 114Fana Gebresenbet and Anchinesh Shiferaw Mulu8 African Union, gender violence and the positive masculinityapproach 134Karmen Tornius9 Norm engagement in conference room 4 of the UN buildingin New York 152Lars Engberg-Pedersen10 Thinking in the US and acting in Ethiopia: social norms,behaviouralism, and competing visions of gendered change 171Adam Moe Fejerskov

‘This book advances a welcome paradigm shift with regard to understanding global order through a multi-nodal framework to study norms. The book develops a decolonizing approach in order to distribute privileges thereby enabling a pluriversal understanding of how norms around violence against women are contested, translated, and transformed. It is an excellent contribution for scholars, experts, and practitioners interested in the ‘work’ of norms in a global context.’