Feminist Dilemmas: How to Talk About Gender-Based Violence in Relation to the Middle East?

2019 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-31
Author(s):  
Nadje Al-Ali
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based

The article charts my trajectories as a feminist activist/academic seeking to research, write and talk about gender-based violence in relation to the Middle East. More specifically, I am drawing on research and activism in relation to Iraq, Turkey and Lebanon to map the discursive, political and empirical challenges and complexities linked to scholarship and activism that is grounded in both feminist and anti-racist/anti-Islamophobic politics. While reflecting on my positionality, the article aims to challenge the binary of activism and academia as well as Western and Middle Eastern contexts in terms of knowledge production.

Femicide and the Speaking State

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-306
Author(s):  
Sumru Atuk
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based

Abstract High rates of gender-based violence and sexist political rhetoric are central features of contemporary Turkey. This article explores the complex relationship between the two by drawing on the literature that investigates the (re)making of the category of “woman” in the Middle East and the scholarship on femicide/feminicide. The article employs critical discourse analysis of ruling politicians’ gender-normative statements and shows how they reconstruct the category of “proper woman” as one with institutional and social consequences that compromise women’s safety. Using John L. Austin’s theory of performative speech acts, the article develops a theory of the speaking state to explain the effects of political speech. Ultimately it argues that the politics of “woman making” is central to “the politics of woman killing.”

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of the Femicide of Migrant Domestic Workers in Bahrain and Lebanon

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 59-75
Author(s):  
Marya Al-Hindi
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Major Topic ◽  
Societal Structure ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Female Migrant ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

Gender-based violence (GBV) is becoming a major topic of criminological concern. This article examines the factors contributing to the abuse of female Migrant Domestic Workers (MDWs) by their employers in two Middle Eastern countries, Lebanon and Bahrain. It pinpoints the law as the structure that maintains the slavery-like conditions that facilitate the systematic violence towards MDWs in Bahrain and Lebanon. It also looks at how processes of criminalisation cement MDWs in their precarious positions, subject to un-investigated femicide. Therefore, this article proposes to view femicide as a state of existence resulting from a wider societal structure as opposed to a single act condensed in time and space. The article adopts an intersectional approach to GBV, which draws attention to the states’ role in facilitating the exploitation of MDWs. It also calls for the inclusion of MDWs in the Lebanese and Bahraini labour laws. By acknowledging the multi-dimensional abuse which ultimately results in the death of MDWs, the article concludes that the governments of the receiving and sending countries must do more to protect their most marginalised subjects. Moreover, criminologists should include MDWs as a criminalised group in more of their academic endeavours.

Empowering Strategies for Including a Gender-Based Violence Perspective in Prevention

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela D. Ledgerwood ◽  
Raven E. Cuellar ◽  
Gillian Finocan ◽  
Jennifer L. Elfstrom ◽  
Karen S. Bromer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based
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