From Global to Grassroots by Celeste Montoya

From Global to Grassroots by Celeste Montoya

From Global to Grassroots looks at how transnational activism aimed at combating violence against women is being used to instigate changes in local practice. Focusing on the case of the European Union, this study provides empirical and intersectional feminist analysis of the transnational processes that connect global and grassroots advocacy efforts, with a particular emphasis placed on the roles played by regional organizations and networks. Over the past several 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 regional and positional variation provided by the expansion of the EU allows comparative leverage for exploring how 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, this study looks beyond the rhetoric to examine the extent to which violence against women is addressed, paying special attention to the ways in which different strategies may impact particular groups of women.

From Global to Grassroots represents a cutting-edge effort to assess a crucial area of state action for promoting gender equality: violence against womenCeleste 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 *

Celeste Montoya is Assistant Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Program at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

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ISBN 13	9780199927197
ISBN 10	0199927197
Title	From Global to Grassroots
Author	Celeste Montoya
Series	Oxford Studies In Gender And International Relations
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	2013-04-11
Number of pages	288
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