ABSTRACT
In recent years, scholars have criticized the study of norm dynamics for employing a Eurocentric frame to understand normative change in global civil society. Most recently, a Global Governance special section dedicated to the "Neglected Southern sources of global norms", argued that norms central to contemporary global governance have their origins in Southern sources, from Latin America's contribution to the norm of international human rights to the role of Chinese and Indian pioneers of the international development norm. This chapter challenges these attempts to disavow the norm literature's Eurocentrism by engaging with Amitav Acharya's concepts of norm localization and norm subsidiarity. It argues that the "difference" Acharya identifies in third world agencies are only made legible within the "universal" framework of normative change because they have been, as Vivienne Jabri puts it, "already scripted elsewhere, namely the West". The chapter also argues that narratives of order and pluralism are always accompanied by rebellion and struggle.
