scholarly journals Resistance to violence against women on Spanish walls

2021 ◽  
pp. 147035722094363
Author(s):  
Jonna Tolonen
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Spanish Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Insight Into

Drawing upon visual ethnographic research carried out in two Spanish cities between 2015 and 2018, this visual essay explores the ability of street art to speak about violence against women. Posters, wall writings and stencils represent both visual communication and political expression that can give an insight into this gender-based phenomenon. Street art pieces are linked to broader social contexts. The photographs and discourse analysis of the street art presented in this essay pay attention to the specific contexts of Spanish society and investigate the social spaces in which street art pieces are embedded. The author offers a critical perspective on assumptions regarding the gendered construction of public space and reflections on street-level visual resistance about violence against women in Madrid and Valencia.

Muriel Spark's Early Fiction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Stage Play ◽  
Insight Into

This book presents a detailed critical analysis of a period of significant formal and thematic innovation in Muriel Spark’s literary career. Spanning the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, it identifies formative instances of literary experimentation in texts including The Comforters, The Driver’s Seat and The Public Image, with an emphasis on metafiction and the influence of the nouveau roman. As the first critical study to draw extensively on Spark’s vast archives of correspondence, manuscripts and research, it provides a unique insight into the social contexts and personal concerns that dictated her fiction. Offering a distinctive reappraisal of Spark’s fiction, the book challenges the rigid critical framework that has long been applied to her writing. In doing so, it interrogates how Spark’s literary innovations work to facilitate moments of subversive satire and gendered social critique. As well as presenting nuanced re-readings major works like The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, it draws unprecedented attention to lesser-discussed texts such as her only stage play, Doctors of Philosophy, and early short stories.

scholarly journals Silencing women in the digital age

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-217
Author(s):  
Louise Arimatsu
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Private Actors

In this paper I explore some of the ways in which developments in new digital technologies reproduce, and often amplify, the patriarchal structures, practices and culture of contemporary life and, in doing so, operate to silence women through exclusion and through violence. I consider how international human rights law – most notably the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) – can be harnessed to counter both forms of silencing in that each is rooted in gender-based discrimination. The digital gender divide and the rise in online violence against women evidences the failure on the part of States Parties to fully commit to their legal obligations pursuant to CEDAW. Ensuring equality of access to, and use of, digital technologies cannot be anything other than the preconditions to ensuring that women can benefit from, contribute to, and influence the development of digital technologies in a meaningful manner. The digital realm may be a privatised public space that warrants a reconceptualisation of the scope and content of human rights law but the fact that much of the digital infrastructure is owned and controlled by private actors does not absolve States of their human rights responsibilities.

scholarly journals Reflecting on criminalizing male violence against women under human rights and human security discourses: a feminist legal and policy analysis

Global Jurist ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Pividori ◽  
Paola Degani
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Severe Form ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Male Violence ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Individual Accountability

Abstract Violence against women is an established issue of concern under international law as well as in the international security domain. More in general, it is contended that issues related to gender-based violence need to be countered with strategies aimed at fighting sexual hierarchies and structural discrimination affecting women at different levels and in different contexts. Despite this, international legal and policy responses to male violence against women are increasingly turning to criminal law enforcement with a strict focus on perpetrators’ individual accountability. The article critically analyzes this trend within the two international legal and policy frameworks that in the past decades have most consistently integrated the issue of violence against women, that is, human security and human rights. The article contends that the increasing focus on criminalization that has emerged in both these frameworks risks obfuscating and downsizing the collective and “public” dimension of States’ responsibility with regards the social phenomenon of violence. Indeed, criminalization strategies allow States to circumvent their duty to work on the social, political and economic structural dimensions at the root of this severe form of violation women’s human rights.

Music is a Place: Oprys and the Rural Working-Class Constitution of Public Space

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-399
Author(s):  
Liza Sapir Flood
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Country Music ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Music Making ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Cultural Order

Abstract“Oprys” are public musicking events found in Appalachia and beyond. They facilitate regular embodied sociality between strangers and friends in a region often characterized by the social fallout of neoliberal economic trends. Drawing on ethnographic research in Tennessee and elsewhere, I show that oprys constitute rural working-class public space where participants negotiate a precarious cultural order through the affordances of live country music performance. But political discourse in these spaces is articulated primarily through embodied, performative, and aesthetic realms which are not captured in a delimited and classed notion of discourse as primarily text or talk. As such, oprys offer a corrective to our understanding of what counts as discursive contestation. I foreground two particular cultural imperatives that structure oprys: participation and accommodation. These imperatives produce a socio-cultural event that characteristically refuses the monetization of space and privileges dialogic sociality over the production of artistic sound. Approaching oprys through the frame of “counterpublic” reveals a different way of imagining public space, public music making and sociality, and the terrain of political discourse.

The Reaffirmation of Self? Narrative Inquiry for Researching Violence Against Women and Stigma

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122110242
Author(s):  
Carol Ballantine
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Narrative Methods ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
The Social ◽  
African Migrant ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

Stigma presents specific ethical and epistemological problems for qualitative researchers of violence against women. Narrative research methods promise to enable ethical research on violence while still offering deep insight into stigmatized topics. This article describes narrative methods used in six focus group discussions and four in-depth interviews with victim-survivors of violence against women, all African migrant women living in Ireland. The article connects narrative and stigma in research with the social lives of participants. It concludes with specific recommendations for creative uses of narrative inquiry to explore stigmatized themes, noting that stigma can never be entirely removed from the research encounter.

From object to encounter: Aesthetic politics and visual criminology

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Young
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Criminological Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Responses ◽  
Aesthetic Politics ◽  
Words And Images ◽  
Constitution Of Crime ◽  
Discursive Field

Recent criminological research has engaged with images of crime such that there increasingly appears to exist a need for a specifically visual criminology. Within visual criminology, however, images are frequently constructed as objects of analysis rather than as constitutive elements of the discursive field. This article draws upon the specific context of the social, cultural and legal responses to uncommissioned words and images in public space—street art and graffiti writing. Focusing on one instance of unauthorized image making, I argue for the dynamic role of the image in the constitution of crime in contemporary society and culture, thanks to the affective dimension of the encounter between spectator and image. The complex range of responses to street art and graffiti highlights ways in which visual criminology must ensure that it eschews an object-centred approach to the image, and conceptualize it instead by means of an aesthetic politics of the encounter.

scholarly journals An Example for the Construction of Masculinity in Turkey: The Woman Has No Name

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Cansun Sebnem
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Masculinity Studies ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Male Roles ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
The Social ◽  
Modernization Process ◽  
New Research

In Turkey, the academic works on gender rather focus on Women’s Studies, whilst Masculinity Studies are perceived as a relatively new research field. From this perspective, the aim of this work is to look closely at the social construction of masculinity in Turkey through the feminist author Duygu Asena’s book entitled Kadının adı yok (The woman has no name). This book hit the bookstores in 1987 and had a selling record in Turkey with its forty editions within year. Duygu Asena rather depicts her male characters from a critical perspective. According to her, in the social construction of masculinity in Turkey we see that men use psychological, physical and sexual violence against women. Men criticize women, limit their liberties, beat them at times, have physical intercourse with them without necessarily asking for their consent. Even though in Turkey masculinity is actually getting modernized and we see non-traditional forms of masculinity around, we notice that hegemonic masculinity is getting reproduced in homosocial communities. We can argue that men encounter insecurity in the midst of the modernization process and suffer from the oppression related to the “male roles”. We recommend that there ought to be more contributions on Masculinity Studies in Turkey.

scholarly journals Původ bipartity legisakčního řízení

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-85
Author(s):  
Pavel Záliš
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Municipal Law ◽  
Legislative Procedure ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
Insight Into

The first part of the article deals with theories dealing with the reasons and circumstances leading to the division of the legislative procedure into two phases, ie in jure, which took place before the magistrate and apud iudicem in which the dispute was decided by the appointed judge. In its basic features, it presents those theories that have significantly influenced the knowledge and further direction of research in this area. The next part deals in the context of the focus of this article with the municipal law lex Irnitana, which offers insight into the reformed formulated process, which, among other things, regulates the freedom of the disputing parties in choosing the person of the judge. The last part offers a perspective from the perspective of legal-anthropological and ethnographic research conducted in the last century in modern primitive societies, which can provide a broader insight for the purposes of studying Roman law and help clarify the motivations and reasons leading to the bipartite Roman process. Anthropological materials make it possible to better understand the legal and non-legal ties that are determined by the social structure of archaic and primitive communities. Thanks to this, we can identify some traditional errors concerning the approach of archaic and primitive societies to law.

scholarly journals News values as evaluation. Main naming practices in Violence Against Women news stories in contemporary Spanish newspapers: El País vs. El Mundo (2005-2010)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-113
Author(s):  
José Santaemilia
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
News Values ◽  
Spanish Society ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Compare And Contrast ◽  
Naming Practices

Violence Against Women (VAW) is a very sensitive, and highly ideological, topic in the Spanish society, as well as in Western societies generally. In Spain, media accounts of VAW are very closely related to two quality newspapers, El País and El Mundo, providing a variety of naming practices for VAW, with differing ideological and evaluative implications. In this paper, I compare and contrast these two dailies in their use of the three main naming practices —violencia de género ‘gender-based violence’, violencia doméstica ‘domestic violence’ and violencia machista ‘male violence’— used in VAW news. To do so I resort to the news values approach proposed by Bednarek and Caple (2012, 2014, 2017), which involves paying attention to the combined insights from both Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis (cf. Baker et al. 2008, Partington et al. 2013).

scholarly journals “Ele vai negar tudo”: O estudo interacional de uma estória de violência doméstica contra a mulher narrada em entrevista de pré-mediação familiar judicial

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-47
Author(s):  
Paulo Cortes Gago ◽  
Maria do Carmo Leite de Oliveira ◽  
Áida Silva Penna ◽  
Maria de Lourdes Pereira ◽  
Vanderlei Andrade de Paula
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Cycle Of Violence ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Based

In this article, we study the narrative of a woman, allegedly the victimof gender-based violence, produced spontaneously in a legal family pre-mediationinterview, in a child custody lawsuit. In a qualitative research work, in light ofthe theoretical-methodological framework of Conversation Analysis, we analy-zed moments of this narrative as sequential objects, arranged in turns of talk-in-interaction. We describe the types of violence narrated, the way they occurred,and the actions of the social actors involved. Furthermore, we relate the narra-tive episodes that make up the plot to the ‘Maria da Penha’ Law and the cycle ofviolence. The results point to a complex network of personal and institutional re-lationships that deal with violence against women, in which everyone is an actor,whether in combat or in the perpetuation of the cycle of violence. We relate themicro-interactional results to macro-social and public policy issues.

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