@article{1470221,
      recid = {1470221},
      author = {Nedziwe, Cecilia Lwiindi, and Tella, Oluwaseun,},
      title = {Transnational activities of women-focused civil society  actors in Southern Africa /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 281 pages) :},
      abstract = {This book focuses on southern Africa by engaging with  'norms' from various perspectives and how they have  proliferated within a neo-liberalising context since the  1990s. It particularly examines gender norms in relation to  agency, influence and their impact. Despite growing  transnational activities, regional studies analyses have so  far maintained a primarily linear logic not incorporative  of the increasing interface between state and non-state  regionalism in a transnational context since the advent of  liberalisation and democratisation. Increasing non-state  activities, and their connection to state processes  involved in norm creation, adaptation, diffusion and  implementation around broad questions of security  (including gender security), amount to regional thickening.  The book's analytical approach is informed by alternatives  to mainstream approaches, emphasising processes rather than  linearity inherent in regional international relations  studies. The research reveals that transnational activities  and regionalisation of gender and women-focused civil  society actors are critical for advocacy and diverse  representation within intergovernmental policymaking  structures at the regional scale. Cecilia Nedziwe is Senior  Lecturer in the Department of Political and International  Studies at Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa. Her  research interests centre around international and regional  organisations, and on issues of gender, civil society and  peacebuilding. Oluwaseun Tella is Head of the Future of  Diplomacy at the University of Johannesburg's Institute for  the Future of Knowledge, South Africa. He holds a doctorate  in Political Science. His research interests include soft  power, foreign policy, Nigeria-South Africa relations,  peace and conflict studies, comparative politics, African  politics and global politics.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1470221},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29537-9},
}