Vortrag von Antje Wiener an der LSEGlobal International Relations Theory: Contestation Repertoires and Normative Change

16. Oktober 2017

Antje Wiener hat im Rahmen der International Theory Workshop Reihe an der London School of Economics einen Vortrag unter dem Titel „Global International Relations Theory: Contestation Repertoires and Normative Change“ gehalten. Die Veranstaltung am 16. Oktober wurde von George Lawson und Kirsten Ainley organisiert und richtete sich insbesondere an Promovierende des Departments für Internationale Beziehungen der LSE (Workshopprogramm PDF).

Abstract

If norms lie in the practice and all practice is norm-generative, whose practices count? The lecture discusses this question with reference to global norm conflicts and local contestation. It advances an agency-centred exploratory approach to norms research in order to examine the local-global co-constitution of normative change. Each of the illustrative case scenarios on fundamental rights, torture prohibition and sexual violence prohibition, stages diverse groups of affected stakeholders in a global multilogue. The research demonstrates how diverse local capabilities are revealed through contestation, and the effect these practices have on the global normative structure of meaning-in-use. For example, while the torture prohibition norm may appear ‘robust’ despite some affected stakeholders’ efforts to justify the actual application of novel ‘interrogation techniques’, that finding applies to an empty norm ‘container’, as the moral substance of the norm is effectively discarded.