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From Global to Grassroots looks at how transnational activism aimed at combating violence against women is used to instigate changes in local practice. Focusing on the case of the European Union, this book provides empirical and intersectional feminist analysis to demonstrate the transnational processes that connect global and grassroots advocacy efforts. It does this by taking an in-depth look at the roles played by regional organizations and networks in efforts to
address violence against women. Over the past decades, the complex and evolving system of EU multilevel governance has provided new venues for women's transnational activism.
Despite a predominantly economic focus, the EU has undertaken various initiatives that utilize different tools of authority to combat violence against women. This book first traces the processes by which violence against women became a European Union issue, examining the role played by global movements and organizations as well as European advocates within and outside of EU institutions. Second, it explores and analyzes the different strategies that the EU has utilized to influence its member
and candidate states to change their practices. Third, it evaluates the impact that these strategies have had at the local level by investigating the interaction of international and regional efforts
with domestic characteristics. The geographic and institutional variation found in the EU makes it a particularly rich case study for comparing the way that different strategies, power relationships, and domestic circumstances interact to provide a range of responses in member and candidate states. While other studies have emphasized formal policy change as evidence that domestic change has occurred, From Global to Grassroots looks beyond the rhetoric to examine the extent
to which violence against women is addressed on the ground, paying special attention to the disparate impact strategies may have on particular groups of women.
From Global to Grassroots looks at how transnational activism aimed at combating violence against women is used to instigate changes in local practice. Focusing on the case of the European Union, this book provides empirical and intersectional feminist analysis to demonstrate the transnational processes that connect global and grassroots advocacy efforts. It does this by taking an in-depth look at the roles played by regional organizations and networks in efforts to
address violence against women. Over the past decades, the complex and evolving system of EU multilevel governance has provided new venues for women's transnational activism.
Despite a predominantly economic focus, the EU has undertaken various initiatives that utilize different tools of authority to combat violence against women. This book first traces the processes by which violence against women became a European Union issue, examining the role played by global movements and organizations as well as European advocates within and outside of EU institutions. Second, it explores and analyzes the different strategies that the EU has utilized to influence its member
and candidate states to change their practices. Third, it evaluates the impact that these strategies have had at the local level by investigating the interaction of international and regional efforts
with domestic characteristics. The geographic and institutional variation found in the EU makes it a particularly rich case study for comparing the way that different strategies, power relationships, and domestic circumstances interact to provide a range of responses in member and candidate states. While other studies have emphasized formal policy change as evidence that domestic change has occurred, From Global to Grassroots looks beyond the rhetoric to examine the extent
to which violence against women is addressed on the ground, paying special attention to the disparate impact strategies may have on particular groups of women.
Table of Contents
1. Transnational Translations of Global Rhetoric into Local
Realities
2. Patterns and Strategies of Global-Domestic Interactions
3. Mapping Advocacy in European Union Multilevel Governance
4. Embedded Networks and Transnational Advocacy
5. The Soft Approach to Zero Tolerance: Normative Discourses on
Violence against Women
6. Conditionality and Coercion: The Accession Process and Combating
Violence against Women
7. Building Networks, Building Capacity: The Daphne Program
8. Domestic Development: Legislation, Programs, and Attitudes
9. Future Prospects for Eradicating Violence against Women
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Celeste Montoya is Assistant Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Program at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
"From Global to Grassroots represents a cutting-edge effort to
assess a crucial area of state action for promoting gender
equality: violence against women. Celeste Montoya crafts and
conducts a powerful multi methods study of VAW policy in the
European Union that enhances our understanding of women's movements
and gender policy as they span the local, national, and
transnational levels. Montoya's stellar analysis provides larger
lessons as well about
some of the major social questions of our day: democratic
performance, intersectionality, multi-level governance, and policy
effectiveness. As such, it will be of great use to a broad audience
of scholars,
teachers, activists and practitioners." -Amy G. Mazur, Professor of
Political Science, Washington State University
"From Global to Grassroots addresses one of the most important
policy issues in the contemporary world-an issue that quite
literally is the product of feminist activism over the past
half-century. Celeste Montoya provides a lucid account of the
emergence of this policy terrain and a sophisticated overview of
the intricate array of state and nonstate actors involved in
efforts to devise policies to eliminate violence against women."
-Mary Hawkesworth,
Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
"Montoya provides readers with one of the most thorough
cross-national studies to yet emerge of transnational advocacy to
combat violence against women... The book contributes rich
theoretical insights that add to the knowledge of regional
institutions (like the EU) and transnational activism. Montoya
extends the conceptualization of differences between state
responsiveness to violence against women and effectiveness in
dealing with the protection, prosecution,
and prevention of violence... Recommended." --CHOICE
"Montoya's book is an educational and enlightening one, offering a
multi-depth analysis of the European Union's advocacy policies to
combat violence against women. ...illuminating." - LSE Review of
Books
"[A]n antidote to confusion surrounding the mistaken impression
that the EU functions as a unitary actor. ...Montoya's book will be
of great interest to those wishing to better grasp why the reach of
global rhetoric has fallen short in confronting the harsh realities
experienced by particular groups of abused women throughout the
EU's member states and candidate countries." - R. Amy Elman,
Politics & Gender
"[S]uch an important achievement. Montoya invites the reader into a
powerful and grounded theoretical, epistemological, and
methodological journey. From Global to Grassroots is a major work
of political science scholarship at the intersection of comparative
politics, international relations, and political theory." - Oana
Bãlutã, Perspectives on Politics
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