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Norms, Storytelling and International Institutions in China: The Imperative to Narrate: St Antony's Series

Autor Xiaoyu Lu
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This book is a political ethnography of norm diffusion and storytelling through international institutions in China. It is driven by intellectual puzzles and realpolitik questions: are we converging or diverging on values? Do emerging powers reinforce or reshape the existing international order? Are international institutions socialising emerging powers or being used to promote alternative norms? This book addresses these questions through fieldwork research over three years at the United Nations Development Programme in China, the first international development agency to enter post-reform China in 1979. It provides a crucial case to study the everyday practices of norm diffusion in emerging powers, and highlights the central role of storytelling in translating and contesting normative scripts. The book selects norms in human rights, rule of law and development cooperation to analyse how translators and brokers innovatively use stories to advocate, and how these normative stories move back-and-forth between local-global spaces and orders.
"A fascinating ethnography that tells us much about international institutions and China's changing role in the world: of interest both to China specialists and theorists of international relations."
Rana Mitter, Director of the University of Oxford China Centre, University of Oxford, UK
“Through pioneering ethnographic research, Xiaoyu Lu’s outstanding book makes a major contribution to our understanding of norm diffusion and the ways in which China is shaping, and is shaped by, international development norms. Lu’s richly textured analysis shows how ‘norm translators’ use case studies, personal stories, and other narratives to negotiate between global and local normative orders, and to facilitate the day-to-day processes of norm diffusion."
Amy King, Associate Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, Australia "An intricate account of the everyday politics in international development institution, that will enrich our understanding of emerging powers and their roles in global development.”

Emma Mawdsley, Director of the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
 

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030567095
ISBN-10: 3030567095
Ilustrații: XV, 244 p. 1 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2021
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria St Antony's Series

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Part I.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Theory and Method.- Chapter 3 Norm Metamorphosis.- Part II.- Chapter 4 Personalising Human Rights.- Chapter 5 The Significant Other: Learning Rule of Law.- Chapter 6 When the Local Returns: Translating China’s Development.- Conclusion: The Liminal Raconteur.


Notă biografică

Xiaoyu Lu is an Assistant Professor at the School of International Studies at Peking University, China and was recently a Research Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, Australia. He received his MSc and DPhil degrees in Politics at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and previously worked at the United Nations. His research focuses on global order, international development and security, with anthropological methods and field missions in conflict-affected regions.

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"A fascinating ethnography that tells us much about international institutions and China's changing role in the world: of interest both to China specialists and theorists of international relations."
Rana Mitter, Director of the China Centre, University of Oxford, UK
 
“Through pioneering ethnographic research, Lu’s outstanding book makes a major contribution to our understanding of norm diffusion and the ways in which China is shaping, and is shaped by, international development norms."
Amy King, Associate Professor, Australian National University, Australia

"An intricate account of the everyday politics in international development institution, that will enrich our understanding of emerging powers and their roles in global development.”
Emma Mawdsley, Director of the Margaret Anstee Centre, University of Cambridge, UK


This book is a political ethnography of norm diffusion and storytelling through international institutions in China. It is driven by intellectual puzzles and realpolitik questions: are we converging or diverging on values? Do emerging powers reinforce or reshape the existing international order? Are international institutions socialising emerging powers or being used to promote alternative norms? This book addresses these questions through fieldwork research over three years at the United Nations Development Programme in China, the first international development agency to enter post-reform China. It provides a crucial case to study the everyday practices of norm diffusion in emerging powers, and highlights the central role of storytelling in translating and contesting normative scripts. The book selects norms in human rights, rule of law and development cooperation to analyse how translators and brokers innovatively use stories to advocate, and how normative stories move between local-global spaces and orders.
 
Xiaoyu Lu is an Assistant Professor at the School of International Studies at Peking University and was a Research Fellow at the Australian National University. He received his MSc and DPhil degrees in Politics at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and worked at the United Nations. His research focuses on international development, conflict and security, and global anthropology.


Caracteristici

Provides a novel take on global norm diffusion through the lens of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) office in China Focuses on ‘norm metamorphosis’, the process which translates norms into accessible narratives, generating normative traction Questions whether emerging powers complement or contest the existing global normative regime