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Karin Aggestam

Karin Aggestam

Professor | Föreståndare för CMES | Vetenskaplig koordinator för MECW | Excellent lärare

Karin Aggestam

Digital Norm Contestation and Feminist Foreign Policy

Författare

  • Karin Aggestam
  • Annika Bergman Rosamond
  • Elsa Hedling

Summary, in English

This article examines the role of digital norm contestation in feminist foreign policy (FFP). It analyzes how states that participate in digital diplomacy are involved in challenging and resisting norms, values and expectations related to feminist positionings in the digital environment. The article presents an analytical framework for the study of digital norm contestation and conducts an empirical case study of Sweden as the first country in the world to brand its foreign policy “feminist.” This triggered a process of digital norm contestation, particularly visible in the area of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Three empirical vignettes of digital norm contestation are analyzed. The first example illustrates how the Swedish government was able to exercise global leadership to visually perform and digitally advocate the contestation of the US global gag rule. The second example underlines how the Swedish government harnessed its leadership by connecting it to grassroots contestations of the global gag rule through digital advocacy networks. The third example illuminates how the Swedish government’s visit to Iran backfired because of a lost sense of control over visual performative effects in the digital environment. By way of conclusion, we suggest three avenues that can be pursued to further the research agenda on gender, digital norm contestation, and foreign policy.

Avdelning/ar

  • Centrum för Mellanösternstudier (CMES)
  • MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World
  • Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
  • Europastudier

Publiceringsår

2024

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

226-245

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Studies Perspectives

Volym

25

Avvikelse

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Oxford University Press

Ämne

  • Political Science
  • Gender Studies

Nyckelord

  • Sweden
  • feminist foreign policy
  • norm contestation
  • digital diplomacy
  • SRHR

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • Digital Diplomacy in a Turbulent Global World
  • Gender and Foreign Policy

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1528-3577