Editors' Introduction: Whither Feminist Liberation Psychology? Critical Explorations of Feminist and Liberation Psychologies for a Globalizing World

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Brinton Lykes ◽  
Geraldine Moane
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Liberation Psychology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
Gender Based

This article explores the roots of feminist and liberation psychologies, positioning examples of contemporary praxis that are deeply informed by today's complex global realities. Examining the consequences of academic and professional women's accompaniment of women `on the margins', that is, those living in `limit situations' deeply affected by global realities of poverty, gender-based violence and structural inequalities, we argue that activist scholars are developing feminist liberationist psycholog(ies) within and beyond the borders of psychology that respond to and incorporate these lived experiences. Through participatory research, pedagogy and community-based workshops, this special issue demonstrates this new praxis. Thus, critical reflexivity and `just enough trust' enable engagement across differences, creating in-between spaces for dialogue, appreciation, and contestation as well as alliances and solidarity — values for a renewed and transformed praxis of psychology with and for those historically marginalized and excluded from our theory and practice.

The Everyday and the Exceptional

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urmitapa Dutta
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Liberation Psychology ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Research Action

This chapter makes a case for reconceptualizing human rights “from below” by grounding human rights discourses in women’s particularities and their voices rather than prescriptive policy standards. It does so by bringing together feminist perspectives grounded in decoloniality and liberation psychology. It presents findings from activist scholarship in Northeast India to offer a critical feminist analysis of civil society’s (non)response to gender-based violence and counternarratives of Garo women protagonists who explain these (non)responses. Following Garo women protagonists in their understanding of violence illuminates the fundamental heterogeneity of violence against women as well as underlying cultural institutional and structural processes. By moving between situated narrative and wider analysis, this chapter explicates the connections between “exceptional” violence and pervasive violations of women’s human rights. The research, action, and policy implications for feminist psychologists engaged in human rights scholarship are discussed.

scholarly journals Zimbabwean Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Causes of and Solutions to Gender-Based Violence in Their Community: Findings From a Focus Group

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780122091744
Author(s):  
Emily A. Waterman ◽  
Katie M. Edwards ◽  
Evans Irvine Makoni ◽  
Laura Siller ◽  
Sharon B. Murphy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Home Visiting ◽  
Gauge Potential ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Community Based ◽  
School Based ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Social Marketing Campaigns ◽  
Victoria Falls

Gender-based violence (GBV) rates are high in Zimbabwe. Looking toward a partnership to prevent GBV in the Victoria Falls region, which lacks GBV prevention initiatives, the current study’s aim was to learn about stakeholders’ perceptions of GBV causes and their ideas for GBV prevention, and to gauge potential community reactions to GBV prevention. Focus group participants emphasized lack of women’s empowerment, alcohol, violence normalization, and tourism as GBV causes, and ideas for prevention included school-based curricular, social marketing campaigns, involving men in prevention, and home visiting programs. Consistent with community-based models, participants emphasized involving all community stakeholders in prevention.

Feminist Praxis: The Michigan Meeting on Ending Gender-Based Violence

Affilia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-392
Author(s):  
Lisa Young Larance ◽  
Elizabeth A. Armstrong ◽  
Michelle Munro-Kramer ◽  
Emily Sheridan-Fulton ◽  
Yasamin Kusunoki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Planning Committee ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Academic Setting ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Academic Settings ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The University

Feminist praxis in conference planning and implementation may be a promising approach to addressing the complex issue of gender-based violence in an academic setting. This “In Brief” provides an overview of how the Michigan Meeting on Ending Gender-Based Violence planning committee at the University of Michigan embraced feminist praxis by foregrounding diversity in conference presenters and topics presented; structuring the conference’s formal and free spaces; creating an inclusive, trauma-informed space where participants and presenters felt welcome; and highlighting participant feedback. By design, this focus in conference planning and implementation enabled tensions to surface between community-based practitioners and university-based researchers, while encouraging the formation of trust. The interdisciplinary conference structure also promoted and made possible greater connections and opportunities for networking and brainstorming on potential future programs and projects. Overall, the outcomes of this conference were positive and show that engagement and participation of community-based practitioners in traditionally academic settings leads to more nuanced discussions necessary for effectively addressing and, hopefully, ending gender-based violence.

scholarly journals Guest Editors’ Introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (11) ◽  
pp. 1283-1289
Author(s):  
Ruth Lewis ◽  
Susan B. Marine
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Adaptive Approaches

In the midst of a wider resurgence of feminist activism, it is timely to ask whether current efforts to address gender-based violence (GBV) on campus are adequate. This guest editors’ introduction to the special issue considers whether our attention should be on transforming, rather than simply adapting, university environments. While critiquing adaptive approaches rooted in “compliance culture”, it sets out key elements of transformative approaches to GBV on campus. It introduces the articles in this special issue and their discussions about efforts to transform university environments in Canada, America and the United Kingdom. It finishes by highlighting enduring barriers to transformational work and areas for further investigation in our efforts to make institutions of higher education safe for all.

Moving beyond Carceral Feminism

2020 ◽  
pp. 149-158
Author(s):  
Hannah E. Britton
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Sentencing Guidelines ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Carceral Feminism ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Recently in South Africa, social problems such as gender-based violence are interpreted primarily as legal issues that may be ameliorated by carceral solutions. These approaches are appealing because political leaders know how to set sentencing guidelines, monitor arrests, and track prosecutions. Yet what the postapartheid case underscores is that such reactive approaches are woefully inadequate to address the complexity of violence that individuals, families, and communities face. The service providers in this project argue that the prevention of gender-based violence starts with community-based approaches. When communities are strengthened, leaders are better able to foster social transformation. Service providers are calling for a broader understanding of the upstream solutions to address all forms of violence and to uproot the legacies of violence and oppression.

Intersectional Standpoint Methodology: Toward Theory-Driven Participatory Research on Human Trafficking

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 418-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary K. Twis ◽  
Kathleen Preble
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Creation

Human trafficking research has increased over the last 20 years; however, the limited use of empiricism and theory in human trafficking research fuels criticism that extant human trafficking research lacks rigor and legitimacy. This deficit complicates researchers' ability to limit bias and employ measurable variables, ultimately hampering the creation of knowledge and evidence-based interventions for practitioners engaged in work on micro- and macrolevels. In an effort to address these liabilities in research, the authors propose an intersectional standpoint methodology (ISM) for human trafficking scholarship. At its foundation, the proposed qualitative methodology maintains that (a) the individual's standpoint is critical to understanding oppression, (b) structural obstacles in political and social systems lead to further oppression, (c) oppressed persons' storytelling and lived experiences are critical, and (d) any knowledge about oppressed groups obtained through qualitative inquiry ought to be applied to macrosystems to create change. This proposed methodology identifies measurable variables by which to explore the trafficking experience and is positioned to enhance scholarly activities with survivors through community-based participatory research.

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