Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378921x16349692612474
J. Rogers
This article examines the absence of discussion about male circumcision in the first legal case against female circumcision in Australia, the Vaziri and Magennis case of 2015, 2018 and 2019, where the High Court of Australia prosecuted three people for practising female circumcision. It engages with the work of Rick Shweder on this case, arguing that what powerfully informs legal cases on this topic in Australia is less anthropological or medical evidence, than antifemale genital mutilation advocacy in the forms of literature and activism. These forms of anti-female genital mutilation discourse, the article argues, obscure the obvious comparison between male circumcision – as a ritual or ceremony that results in the production of a man as a man of God or of the nation – and female circumcision, which is understood as a mutilation. In lieu of the missed comparison, the result of this representation in legal and fictional texts is a rendering of the woman as unable to authorise her own agency, that is, as a remnant of mutilation, a rendering that is far from accurate.Key messagesLegal deliberations on female circumcision would benefit from comparison with the significance of male circumcision.Legal deliberations on female circumcision need to be informed by evidence from circumcised women and less by anti-female genital mutilation activism, which is curated for popular consumption.Positioning circumcised women as mutilated women denies the significant and informed voices of circumcised women who do not experience the practices as mutilation.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378921x16438984586967
H. Hansen
{"title":"On fiscal rules, gross domestic product forecasts and prediction of economic crises - a reply to ‘Macroeconomic equilibriums, crises and fiscal policy’, by Fredrik N.G. Andersson","authors":"H. Hansen","doi":"10.1332/204378921x16438984586967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921x16438984586967","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p> </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":37814,"journal":{"name":"Global Discourse","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87292311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378921x16337735038585
H. Gottfried
{"title":"Crisis and change: the politics of potentialities. A reply to ‘Crisis and society: developing the theory of crisis in the context of COVID’, by Walby","authors":"H. Gottfried","doi":"10.1332/204378921x16337735038585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921x16337735038585","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p> </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":37814,"journal":{"name":"Global Discourse","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74849716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378922x16481872268424
J. Depledge
{"title":"Overcoming stalled implementation: a reply to ‘Why do climate change negotiations stall? Scientific evidence and solutions for some structural problems’, by Ulrich Frey and Jazmin Burgess","authors":"J. Depledge","doi":"10.1332/204378922x16481872268424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204378922x16481872268424","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p> </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":37814,"journal":{"name":"Global Discourse","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89302792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378921x16310443455891
I. Levin
{"title":"Social resilience and refugee housing: questioning the shift in responsibility for settlement: a reply to ‘The attributes of social resilience: understanding refugees’ housing choices’ by Perugia","authors":"I. Levin","doi":"10.1332/204378921x16310443455891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921x16310443455891","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p> </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":37814,"journal":{"name":"Global Discourse","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78741232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378921x16354481297194
D. Fassin
In the tradition of Koselleck, crisis has often been approached as an idea or as a narrative, but less research has been conducted on how people produce, respond to, and live through crises. Most of the articles of the present issue explore this perspective, with its dual dimension of experience and politics. In line with it, the present article proposes an analysis of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic through the questions of the rupture in time, the state of exception and the uncovering of inequalities.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378921x16345524513807
Bettina Shell-Duncan
Countries around the world have passed laws specifically banning female genital mutilation/cutting. Legal restrictions vary as to whether they apply to both girls and adult women or to minors only, and few address a second set of genital cutting procedures known as ‘female genital cosmetic surgeries’. Different legal framings reflect variation in views regarding women’s autonomy and their ability to provide meaningful consent. Social norms theory has drawn attention to the fact that in societies where customary female genital mutilation/cutting is common, women can be under intense pressure to conform lest risking social inclusion, support and possibly marriage prospects. Hence, protectionist measures by the state have been invited. Much less attention has been directed towards the broader circumstances that can shape and constrain women’s autonomy, including economic instability, limited access to resources and services, political marginalisation and discrimination, and global factors such as climate change. In this article, I highlight the promise of intersectional analyses of factors influencing female genital mutilation/cutting and suggest that in moving beyond the problematic distinction of ‘modern’ and ‘traditional’ societies, it is more fruitful to understand the multiple and combined factors that influence women’s empowerment. Drawing on case studies from Senegal, Kenya and the US, I illustrate that the logic to perform female genital mutilation/cutting or to resist engaging in community outreach on female genital mutilation/cutting may not only emanate from community norms, but also include broader conditions that influence people’s ability to cope with precarious livelihoods. A more comprehensive understanding of spheres of influence on women’s choices can be gained by examining how structural, material, social and individual domains overlap in a woman’s life. Programmes that aim to address female genital mutilation/cutting may be enhanced by expanding beyond a focus on legal reform and social norms to also address the broader structural and global factors that influence women’s agency.Key messagesWorldwide, laws banning female genital mutilation/cutting vary in important ways, including whether they apply to all women or only minor girls.Legal restrictions also vary in terms of whether they apply to all forms of genital cutting, including type IV female genital mutilation (nicking, pricking or scraping) and elective genital cosmetic surgeries that may result in physical modifications very similar to some forms of female genital mutilation/cutting.Social norms theory, which focuses on community pressure to conform with the customary practice of female genital mutilation/cutting, does not fully explain variation in women’s agency and their ability to provide meaningful consent.A more comprehensive understanding of spheres of influence on women’s autonomy can be gained by examining the multiple and intersecting domains that include such s
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378921x16341273884548
N. N. Sørensen
{"title":"Crisis as ‘slow’ or an existential state of being: a reply to ‘Slow crisis in Bissau and beyond’ by Vigh","authors":"N. N. Sørensen","doi":"10.1332/204378921x16341273884548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921x16341273884548","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p> </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":37814,"journal":{"name":"Global Discourse","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89511230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378921x16448923157590
Daniel Sznycer, Mike Landers
{"title":"When making policy, knowledge of human nature must be supplemented with sound economic analysis: a reply to ‘Fairness, generosity and conditionality in the welfare system: the case of UK disability benefits’ by Johnson and Nettle","authors":"Daniel Sznycer, Mike Landers","doi":"10.1332/204378921x16448923157590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921x16448923157590","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p> </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":37814,"journal":{"name":"Global Discourse","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81038844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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