Translating sustainable fishing norms: the EU’s external relations with Ghana

Auethavornpipat, Ruji

doi:10.1080/01436597.2021.1958673

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“…The focus on domestic validation has added values. It contributes to the bourgeoning body of literature on the global–local dynamics of norms, which examines how norms are reinterpreted and translated in a new context (Auethavornpipat 2021; Medie 2020; Zimmermann 2017; Zwingel 2012). It reveals how domestic validation may shape and reshape normative understandings, thus influencing how actors subsequently re-enact global norms.…”

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Norm contestation and the weakening of migrant fisher protection in Thailand

Auethavornpipat

2022

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In 2019, Thailand ratified the International Labour Organization Work in Fishing Convention to protect migrant fishers. The Thai government vigorously promoted the Convention among its constituents. Yet, despite the government’s proactivity, such norms have been weakened upon local translation. This phenomenon is not readily explained by existing norms research that pays scant attention to norms in the domestic space. To address this oversight, this article unpacks domestic processes of norm validation and makes a two-step argument. First, it argues that norm validation is crucial for instigating domestic implementation by allowing stakeholders to deliberate and contest the ‘appropriate’ application of norms. Second, it argues that the locally acquired normative understanding, as influenced by norm antipreneurs, or actors who defend the status quo, weakens norm implementation while the norms’ discursive strength is retained. In presenting the findings, this article contributes to the norms literature by illuminating a new life given to validated norms. The contribution also interrogates norms’ global–local dynamics by scrutinizing norm contestation and the extent to which it generates an internalized sense of legal obligation to implement international norms.

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confidence: 99%