Negotiating Normativity

Chapter 1 Normative Legitimacy and Normative Dilemmas: Postcolonial Interventions

Chapter 2 Can the Subaltern Speak within International Law? Women’s Rights Activism, International Legal Institutions and the Power of ‘Strategic Misunderstanding’

Chapter 3 Cultural Brokers in Post-colonial Migration Regimes

Chapter 4 Indigenising Democracy? Renegotiating the Role of Indigenous Political Authorities in Ghana’s Constitution Review

Chapter 5 Civil Society as a Postcolonial Project: Challenging Normative Notions in Post-conflict Sub-Saharan Africa

Chapter 6 Undoing Subalternity? Anarchist Anthropology and the Dialectics of Participation and Autonomy

Chapter 7 The Re-colonization of South Asian Women’s Bodies: Normalizing Off-Label Experiments in the Pharmaceuticalization of Homebirths

Chapter 8 Motherhood, Mining and Modernity in the Peruvian Highlands from Corporate Development to Social Mobilization

Chapter 9 Women’s Rights in the Aftermath of Tunisia’s Revolution: New Options and Constraints for Women’s Activism in Processes of Transition

Chapter 11 “Cruelty Is Uncivilized”: Consent, BDSM, and Legal Regulation of the Civil(ized) Subject

Chapter 12 Negotiating ‘Development’: Constitution, Appropriation and Contestation

Chapter 13 Political Economy, Subjectivity and Agency: A Materialistic Governmentality Study of Microfinances

Chapter 14 Normative Conflicts in Bangladesh: Nature/Forest Conservation, Corporate Interests and the Politics of Co-management

Chapter 15 “We Want You to Ask Us First”: Development, International Aid and the Politics of Indebtedness