scholarly journals Ethical spaces in imperfect global health collaborations. A commentary on Keynejad’s research, education and capacity building initiative to address gender-based violence in the Global South

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Kienzler
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Global South ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Research Education ◽  
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.

Violence and Everyday Crises

2021 ◽  
pp. 139-164
Author(s):  
Clare Wenham
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Crisis Events ◽  
Structural Failures ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Zika was framed globally as a ‘crisis’ with a narrative demonstrating a paternalistic approach to policymaking and failing to take local contexts into consideration. This chapter examines structural and gender-based violence in juxtaposition to the framing of Zika as a global health crisis at the local level. Despite being invisibilised by global health security and responsibilised by domestic governments, women most susceptible to the Zika outbreak, while providing for their children’s needs, were fighting everyday challenges of financial security, increasing community and gender violence, poverty, and state structural failures in provision of routine health, sanitation, and housing. Zika became just one of a string of individual security threats these women had to battle. This disjuncture needs to be exposed and counteracted, and the lived reality of those infected must be addressed to meaningfully respond to these health crisis events.

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.”

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