Reconceiving a World Around Our Bodies: Universities, Gender-Based Violence, and Social Justice

Circle of Aunties Fostering Co-conspiratorship with Families of mmiwgt2s in the Resistance of Settler Colonial Violence

10.32920/ryerson.14662101 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Laura Heidenheim

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

People Of Color ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

Gendered Violence ◽

Educational Tools ◽

Creation Process ◽

Colonial Violence ◽

Gender Based ◽

Racialized Gender

This paper details the co-research creation project “Circle of Aunties” outlining our processes, contributions and key learnings. The paper will begin by locating the author and the project’s approach and move to detailing our process - exploring the Circle of Aunties toolkit and the coresearch creation process. The paper will then outline the contribution this project makes to educational tools that create awareness around racialized gender-based violence in Canada and its relationship to existing literature regarding co-conspirator work. Co-conspirator/accomplice work are “alternative framework(s)” to allyship which call for “white scholars and activists to act as accomplices, working in solidarity with people of color within social justice and anti-racist movements” (Powell Kelly, 42). This paper explores our process of co-conspiratorship, bringing our project into conversation with contemporary anti-colonial efforts and calling for the prefacing of relationship in anti-colonial projects. Key Words: Co-conspiratorship, Accomplice, MMIWGT2S, Racialized Gendered Violence, Settler Colonial Violence, Settler Colonialism, Curriculum

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What Motivates Men’s Involvement in Gender-based Violence Prevention? Latent Class Profiles and Correlates in an International Sample of Men

Men and Masculinities ◽

10.1177/1097184x16634801 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 294-316 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Erin A. Casey ◽

Richard M. Tolman ◽

Juliana Carlson ◽

Christopher T. Allen ◽

Heather L. Storer

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Violence Prevention ◽

Online Survey ◽

Latent Class ◽

Future Research ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

Personal Connection ◽

Engagement Strategies ◽

Gender Based ◽

Men’S Involvement

Data from an international sample of 392 men who had attended gender-based violence (GBV) prevention events were used to examine motivations for involvement in GBV prevention work. Participants responded to an online survey (available in English, French, and Spanish). The most commonly reported reasons for involvement included concern for related social justice issues (87 percent), exposure to the issue of violence through work (70 percent), hearing a moving story about domestic or sexual violence (59 percent), and disclosure of abuse from someone close to the participant (55 percent). Using a latent class analysis, we identified four profiles of men’s motivations: low personal connection (22 percent), empathetic connection (26 percent), violence exposed connection (23 percent), and high personal and empathetic connection (29 percent). Participants classified into these profiles did not differ in length of movement involvement but some differences on key ally variables and by global region did emerge. Implications for engagement strategies and future research are discussed.

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Missio hominum for social justice in South Africa: From missio Dei to missio hominum

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies ◽

10.4102/hts.v77i4.7109 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 77 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Jonas S. Thinane

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Social Justice ◽

Human Action ◽

Missio Dei ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Christian Mission ◽

Gender Based ◽

And Gender ◽

Integrated Or

Decades after the fall of apartheid, South Africa continues to face problems such as racism, heterosexism, sexism, ableism, xenophobia, and gender-based violence leading to feminicide, which undermines all efforts being made to achieve social justice. Every Christian mission begins or flows out from missio Dei and has a common endeavour to achieve its goal. This article examines missio hominum as the new fundamental paradigm from the perspective of Nico Smith. It believes that when Smith saw the need for missio hominum, social justice was thought of as a prerequisite for the accomplishment of missio Dei’s goal. It examines how he developed the missio hominum paradigm with the aim of advocating for social justice in South Africa. It perceives a potential and a fundamental element for social justice in this new paradigm. Significantly, missio hominum represents a fundamental theological paradigm by which human action is integrated or linked with divine action in order to achieve the goal of the missio Dei. It provides an overview of the literature relating to the featured works on Christian mission and social justice. To the best of the author’s knowledge, little or no work has been published on missio hominum as a missiological paradigm on the way to social justice.Contribution: Missio hominum from the perspective of Nico Smith is described here as a new fundamental missiological paradigm aimed at bringing social justice to South Africa. This paradigm integrates the active participation of all people in the broader discourse of the missio Dei and its fulfilment. Adoption of this paradigm will enrich the field of theology in general and missiology in particular as it expands human participation in missio Dei.

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Circle of Aunties Fostering Co-conspiratorship with Families of mmiwgt2s in the Resistance of Settler Colonial Violence

10.32920/ryerson.14662101.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Laura Heidenheim

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

People Of Color ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

Gendered Violence ◽

Educational Tools ◽

Creation Process ◽

Colonial Violence ◽

Gender Based ◽

Racialized Gender

This paper details the co-research creation project “Circle of Aunties” outlining our processes, contributions and key learnings. The paper will begin by locating the author and the project’s approach and move to detailing our process - exploring the Circle of Aunties toolkit and the coresearch creation process. The paper will then outline the contribution this project makes to educational tools that create awareness around racialized gender-based violence in Canada and its relationship to existing literature regarding co-conspirator work. Co-conspirator/accomplice work are “alternative framework(s)” to allyship which call for “white scholars and activists to act as accomplices, working in solidarity with people of color within social justice and anti-racist movements” (Powell Kelly, 42). This paper explores our process of co-conspiratorship, bringing our project into conversation with contemporary anti-colonial efforts and calling for the prefacing of relationship in anti-colonial projects. Key Words: Co-conspiratorship, Accomplice, MMIWGT2S, Racialized Gendered Violence, Settler Colonial Violence, Settler Colonialism, Curriculum

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Women in Guatemala’s Metropolitan Area: Violence, Law, and Social Justice

Studies in Social Justice ◽

10.26522/ssj.v2i1.966 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 27-47 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Paula Godoy-Paiz

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Violence Against Women ◽

Metropolitan Area ◽

Life Experiences ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Judicial Reform ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

Women's Lives ◽

Gender Based ◽

Post War

In this article I examine the legal framework for addressing violence against women in post war Guatemala. Since the signing of the Peace Accords in 1996, judicial reform in Guatemala has included the passing of laws in the area of women‘s human rights, aimed at eliminating discrimination and violence against women. These laws constitute a response to and have occurred concurrently to an increase in violent crime against women, particularly in the form of mass rapes and murders. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Guatemala‘s Metropolitan Area, this paper juxtaposes the laws for addressing violence against women to Guatemalan women‘s complex, multilayered and multi-dimensional life experiences. The latter expose the limitations of strictly legal understandings of the phenomenon of gender-based violence, and highlight the need for broad social justice approaches that take into account the different structures of violence, inequality, and injustice present in women‘s lives.

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