A Socio-Historical Approach to Regional Organizational Relations? NGOs in Gender Security in the SADC Region

Nedziwe, Cecilia L

Title: A Socio-Historical Approach to Regional Organizational Relations? NGOs in Gender Security in the SADC Region
Creator: Nedziwe, Cecilia L
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2024
Date: 2024
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/445278
Identifier: vital:74370
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.22151/politikon.57.1
Description: The extant academic literature in the field of regional International Relations has paid little attention to non-state actors’ organizational relations in building region-ness. Yet, the region offers sets of organizational relations outside, alongside, and as part of the formal regional state structures to do with gender, which offer insights into non-state regional relations and thus help to fill the lacunae in the field and facilitate understanding of the regional dynamic of international relations. This article examines how organizational relations of non-state actors in gender security play out in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. It highlights the shortcomings of the inter-governmental approach to international relations pursued by various scholars. Drawing on interviews with representatives of NGOs, governments, the SADC, and annual reports, as well as the academic literature, it argues for a socio-historical approach to understanding regional organization and transnationalism, which considers African agency in building region-ness.
Format: 24 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Journal of Political Science
Relation: Nedziwe, C.L., 2024. A Socio-Historical Approach to Regional Organizational Relations? NGOs in Gender Security in the SADC Region. Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science, 57, pp.5-28
Relation: Journal of Political Science volume 57 number 1 5 28 2024 1470-1014
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Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Politikon Statement (https://www.politikon.iapss.org/index.php/politikon/about)

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