Contribution in an anthology

Appeared in: Negotiating Normativity : Postcolonial Appropriations, Contestations and Transformations

Editor list: Dhawan, N; Fink, E; Leinius, J; Mageza-Barthel, R

Publication year: 2016

Pages: 1-23

ISBN: 978-3-319-30983-5

eISBN: 978-3-319-30984-2

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30984-2_1

Edition: 1

Abstract: 

The specific focus of this volume lies on critically scrutinizing how power manifests itself in norms and normativity; by opening up new research perspectives that point towards the ambivalent and twofold character of normativity, we show how norms are appropriated, contested as well as transformed. The analyses take a stance against restricting binaries as well as against the assumption of an allegedly all-encompassing (post-)colonial power. This introduction begins by outlining the editors' notion of norms and normativity, then portrays how normativity has been negotiated in postcolonial feminist approaches and finally elaborates on how the concepts of appropriation, contestation and transformation assist in understanding resistance and its entanglement with the multifaceted trajectories of power in a postcolonial world.

Harvard Citation style: Dhawan, N., Fink, E., Leinius, J. and Mageza-Barthel, R. (2016) Normative Legitimacy and Normative Dilemmas: Postcolonial Interventions, in Dhawan, N., Fink, E., Leinius, J. and Mageza-Barthel, R. (eds.) Negotiating Normativity : Postcolonial Appropriations, Contestations and Transformations. 1. New York: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30984-2_1

APA Citation style: Dhawan, N., Fink, E., Leinius, J., & Mageza-Barthel, R. (2016). Normative Legitimacy and Normative Dilemmas: Postcolonial Interventions. In Dhawan, N., Fink, E., Leinius, J., & Mageza-Barthel, R. (Eds.), Negotiating Normativity : Postcolonial Appropriations, Contestations and Transformations (1, pp. 1-23). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30984-2_1