States of Exception: Gender-based Violence in the Global South

2018 ◽  
pp. 147-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sujata Moorti
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based

scholarly journals Using Participatory and Creative Methods to Research Gender-Based Violence in the Global South and With Indigenous Communities: Findings From a Scoping Review

2020 ◽  
pp. 152483802092577
Author(s):  
Siân Natasha Thomas ◽  
Sanne Weber ◽  
Caroline Bradbury-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Scoping Review ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Global South ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Ethical Frameworks ◽  
Practice Recommendations ◽  
Creative Methods ◽  
Gender Based

This review provides a synthesis of existing research on best practice recommendations for the use of participatory and creative methods to research gender-based violence in the Global South. Following a five-stage scoping review process, 44 papers, which each related to at least two of the three parts of the topic, were selected for inclusion. A frequency table was compiled to identify the elements of best practice, which were most common across the literature. Qualitative content analysis was then used to group these elements into inductive themes. An overarching theme of safety was identified, along with four broad and intersecting domains underpinning ethical research approaches in this area: contextual, reflexive, relational, and transformative. The validity of these themes was confirmed through consultation with partners, who also emphasized the importance of a survivor-centered approach. The aims, methods, barriers, evidence for practice, and research recommendations (AMBER) framework was developed for this project as an innovative tool for analyzing the data collected and drawing out the relevance for research practice. The framework draws out the aims, methods, and barriers involved in participatory research in this context and sets out best practice recommendations and directions for future research in the following areas: (1) ensuring safety of participants and researchers, (2) redressing power inequalities within the research process, (3) embedding locally responsive ethical frameworks, and (4) understanding cultural context and respecting cultural norms.

scholarly journals Reimaging the policing of gender violence: lessons from women’s police stations in Brasil and Argentina

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Carrington ◽  
Melissa Bull ◽  
Gisella Lopes Gomes Pinto Ferreira ◽  
Maria Victoria Puyol
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
South American ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Perspective Drawing ◽  
The World ◽  
Knowledge Policy ◽  
Global North ◽  
Gender Based

The criminalisation of domestic violence during the 1970s and 1980s was lauded by feminists as a victory, as the state taking responsibility for the safety of women. The problem was that its regulation was delegated to a masculinist judicial system and its policing delegated to a militarised and masculinised police service that left victims disappointed, re-victimised or disbelieved. Our paper investigates how to re-imagine the policing of victims/survivors of gender-based violence from a women-centred perspective. Drawing on secondary and primary empirical research on women's police stations (WPS), that first emerged in Brasil in 1985 and Argentina in 1988, this paper investigates whether this model could offer an innovative remedy to the masculinised ill-equipped traditional models of policing of gender-based violence. Framed by southern theory our project reverses the notion that knowledge/policy transfer should flow from the Anglophone countries of the Global-North to the Global-South. Our project aimed to discover, firstly, how women's police stations – a unique invention of the Global-South, respond to and prevent gender-based violence and, secondly, what aspects could inform the development of new approaches to policing and prevention of gender-based violence elsewhere in the world. We conclude that this uniquely South American innovation might serve as an inspiration to Australia and elsewhere in the world struggling with the shadow pandemic of gender violence. Our paper draws on original empirical and historical research undertaken in Brasil, Argentina and Australia to offer new practical and conceptual insights into how to enhance the policing of gender-based violence.

A Global Genealogy

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Mona Lena Krook
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Global South ◽  
Women In Politics ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Global Organizations ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Different Parts

Chapter 2 traces the global emergence of the concept of violence against women in politics. It outlines how the first efforts to name the problem of violence against women in politics emerged in parallel across different parts of the global South: Working inductively, locally elected women in Bolivia theorized their experiences as “political harassment and violence against women” in the late 1990s; networks of elected women across South Asia, with support from global organizations, mapped and condemned manifestations of “violence against women in politics” in the mid-2000s; and state and non-state actors in Kenya recognized and sought to tackle “electoral gender-based violence” in the late 2000s. The chapter then goes on to show how inductive theorizing planted important seeds subsequently taken up by a wide range of international practitioners, who in the late 2000s and early 2010s actively worked to craft a global concept of “violence against women in politics.”

scholarly journals Covid-19 and feminism in the Global South: Challenges, initiatives and dilemmas

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadje Al-Ali
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Global South ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Drastic Increase ◽  
Gender Based

The article addresses the gendered implications of Covid-19 in the Global South by paying attention to the intersectional pre-existing inequalities that have given rise to specific risks and vulnerabilities. It explores various aspects of the pandemic-induced ‘crisis of social reproduction’ that affects women as the main caregivers as well as addressing the drastic increase of various forms of gender-based violence. Both, in addition to growing poverty and severely limited access to resources and health services, are particularly devastating in marginalized and vulnerable communities in the Global South. The article looks at specific regions and countries to illustrate wider challenges faced by LGBTQ populations, ethnic minorities, domestic workers, migrants and sex workers. Against the background of these gendered intersectional challenges, the article then moves to discuss feminist initiatives and mobilizations to deal with the crisis in specific local contexts as well as nationally, regionally and transnationally. It concludes by highlighting a number of visions, tensions and dilemmas faced by feminists in the Global South that will need to be taken into consideration in terms of transnational feminist solidarities.

scholarly journals How Women’s Police Stations Empower Women, Widen Access to Justice and Prevent Gender Violence

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Carrington ◽  
Natacha Guala ◽  
María Victoria Puyol ◽  
Máximo Sozzo
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Global South ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Global North ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Anglophone World ◽  
Multidisciplinary Model

Women’s police stations are a distinctive innovation that emerged in postcolonial nations of the global south in the second half of the twentieth century to address violence against women. This article presents the results of a world-first study of the unique way that these stations, called Comisaría de la Mujer, prevent gender-based violence in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. One in five police stations in this Province was established with a mandate of preventing gender violence. Little is currently known about how this distinctive multidisciplinary model of policing (which includes social workers, lawyers, psychologists and police) widens access to justice to prevent gender violence. This article compares the model’s virtues and limitations to traditional policing models. We conclude that specialised women’s police stations in the postcolonial societies of the global south increase access to justice, empower women to liberate themselves from the subjection of domestic violence and prevent gender violence by challenging patriarchal norms that sustain it. As a by-product, these women’s police stations also offer women in the global south a career in law enforcement—one that is based on a gender perspective. The study is framed by southern criminology, which reverses the notion that ideas, policies and theories can only travel from the anglophone world of the global north to the global south. The article has been kindly translated into Spanish by one of the authors María Victoria Puyol - and can be viewed in both English and Spanish Cómo las Comisarias de la Mujer empoderan a las mujeres, amplían el acceso a la justicia y previenen la violencia de género

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