Women’s Experiences of Poverty in Japan: Protection and the State

Women's Experiences of the State Health Services in Khayelitsha

Agenda ◽

10.2307/4065581 ◽

1992 ◽

pp. 33

Author(s):

Di Cooper ◽

Peliwe Mnguni ◽

Karen Harrison

Keyword(s):

Health Services ◽

The State ◽

State Health ◽

Women’S Experiences ◽

Women's Experiences

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Citizenship as Interpellation: Refugee Women and the State

Government and Opposition ◽

10.1111/j.1477-7053.2007.00247.x ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 43 (2) ◽

pp. 293-314 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Leah Bassel

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

Public Debate ◽

The State ◽

The Public ◽

Women’S Experiences ◽

Refugee Women ◽

Women's Experiences ◽

Somali Refugee ◽

The Public Sphere

AbstractThis article examines the ideological function of ‘models’ of citizenship in shaping the contours of public debate and the ability of refugee women to make claims in the public sphere. Key elements of Louis Althusser's concept of interpellation are explored: ideology works by interpellating (‘hailing’) individuals, providing them with a social and juridical identity that constitutes them as subjects. The article argues that ‘models’ of citizenship serve as vehicles for processes of interpellation that restrict claim-making, through the imposition of a dominant hierarchy of identities and needs. These processes become visible through analysis of Somali refugee women's experiences in republican France.

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Being Pākehā & Researching the Experiences of Māori Women and Weight Loss Surgery: On Ethics & Ethnography

Sites a journal of social anthropology and cultural studies ◽

10.11157/sites-id464 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Clare Joensen

Keyword(s):

Weight Loss ◽

Ethic Of Care ◽

Weight Loss Surgery ◽

The State ◽

Women’S Experiences ◽

Women's Experiences ◽

Subjective Space

This paper proposes that the positionality of Pākehā researchers wishing to learn from Māori, can be reimagined as an atmospheric inter-subjective space within which conversations can happen across difference and between commonalities. I outline my own reckoning as a Pākehā attempting to enter this field as a part of my MA research on Māori women’s experiences of weight loss surgery. I argue that a form of differential distancing, while holding onto an ethic of care, enables a form of academic inquiry that is less stymied by the politics of permission. This paper also proposes that ethical representation can be bolstered by staying close to the logics for living of our participants and conceptualising their narratives through ‘embodied becoming’. I argue that this multi-faceted approach enables ethnography which retrieves nuance and releases participants, to a degree, from discourses that primarily frame individuals as victims of the state.

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Why Criminalise Coercive Control? The Complicity of the Criminal Law in Punishing Women Through Furthering the Power of the State

International Journal for Crime Justice and Social Democracy ◽

10.5204/ijcjsd.1829 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Sandra Walklate ◽

Kate Fitz-Gibbon

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Criminal Law ◽

The State ◽

Limited Attention ◽

Coercive Control ◽

Women’S Experiences ◽

Legal Response ◽

Women's Experiences ◽

The Law

Moves to criminalise coercive and controlling behaviours are hotly debated. In jurisdictions where the legal response to domestic violence has incorporated coercive control, the efficacy of such interventions has yet to be established. Within this debate, limited attention has been paid to the extent to which such moves challenge or endorse legal understandings of the ‘responsible subject’ (Lacey 2016). This article will consider the failure of both the law in theory and the law in practice to address this feature in the debates surrounding coercive control. We suggest that this failure may result in the reassertion of traditional conceptions of responsibility. Or, as Naffine (1990) might say, a reconsideration of the unintended impacts of the prevailing influence of the rational, entrepreneurial, heterosexual, white man of law. Consequently, any law intended to offer an avenue for understanding women’s experiences of coercive control can reassert women as victims to be blamed for those same experiences and sustain the power of the patriarchal state in responding to such violence.

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