Conny Roggeband is assistant professor Gender and Politics at the political science department of the UvA. Her research and teaching concentrates on the initiatives and responses that states take with regard to gender and ethnicity, and how social movements interact with the state. Conny has written on the politicization of gender-based violence, gender mainstreaming and equality policies, social movements and transnational feminist networking based on research conducted in the Netherlands, Spain and Latin America. Her current research project concentrates on recent processes of state-reform and democratization in Latin America and how these affect gender policies and institutionalization. Through a close examination of the politics of gender-based violence, reproductive rights and maternity (benefits and social policies) in Latin America, she explores the gendered consequences of the “turn to the left” in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Ecuador and whether and how women’s organizing and networking influences policy and state reform.

Conny Roggeband holds a Phd in Political Science from Radboud University. She worked for the Council for Equality Policies (Emancipatieraad) in the Netherlands, Radboud University and VU University. Before coming to Amsterdam she taught political science at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Ecuador.

Selected publications

Gender Equality Norms in Regional Governance.Transnational Dynamics in Europe, South America and Southern Africa

This book investigates the diffusion of gender equality norms in and between the European Union (EU), South America and Southern Africa. It offers an in-depth analysis of the trajectories of norms on gender-based violence and gender mainstreaming of aid and trade. The study proposes a novel theoretical framework that enables scholars to grasp the constant renegotiation of gender equality norms in the dynamics between transnational, national and (inter)regional actor constellations. Moving beyond the predominant 'global-local' approach, it conceptualizes norm diffusion as a multidirectional and polycentric process. The empirical chapters show how new geometries of transnational activism have developed. Last but not least, the text explores how the landscapes through which norms travel impact on the norms as well as on their diffusion, revealing the underlying logics that explain the differences in the strengths of gender equality norms as well as the differences between the EU, Mercosur, Organization of American States and Southern African Development Community.

The Future of Social Movement Research. Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes. 

In The Future of Social Movement Research, some of the most influential scholars in the field provide a wide-ranging understanding of how social movements arise and persist, engendering unanswered questions pointing to new theoretical strands and fields of research. The resulting work is interdisciplinary and unusually broad in scope, constituting the most comprehensive overview of the dynamics of social movements available.

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