scholarly journals Seeking Justice Through Qanun Jinayat: The Narratives of Female Victims of Sexual Violence in Aceh, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Yogi Febriandi ◽  
Muhammad Ansor ◽  
Nursiti Nursiti
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Female Victims ◽  
Narrative Agency ◽  
Depth Interviews

<p>This article examines the experience of Acehnese female victims of sexual violence seeking justice through Qanun Jinayat (Islamic criminal bylaw) in Aceh, Indonesia. The empirical data in this study were collected through in-depth interviews with the victims and families related to the cases of sexual violence. By employing the narrative agency, this article argues that telling the experience of seeking justice is a way female victims of sexual violence express their resistance to the implementation of Qanun Jinayat in Aceh. Regarding this, we will show that Aceh’s Qanun Jinayat, which was originally implemented to eradicate sexual violence, turns out to have limitations in realizing the desired goals. This finding ultimately confirms that the concept of legal pluralism adopted in Aceh, Indonesia, has liminality in facilitating justice for women and other marginalized communities.</p>

Flexible Selves in Flexible Times? Yoga and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Istanbul

Sociology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003803852199893
Author(s):  
T Deniz Erkmen
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Neoliberal Governance ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
Geographical Scope ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Yoga Practitioners

This article adds to contemporary analyses of neoliberal subjectivities by focusing on middle-class yoga practitioners in Istanbul, Turkey. Drawing on in-depth interviews, it questions the dominant interpretation of yoga as a form of neoliberal governance and suggests that within the nexus of neoliberal globalisation, autocratisation and precarisation, practices that are often labeled ‘lifestyle consumption’ might provide individuals with the discursive tools to question entrepreneurial norms. Expanding the geographical scope of existing research as well as providing a theoretically informed analysis of empirical data, the article makes an original contribution to understandings of neoliberal subjectivities by bridging work on neoliberal subjectivities and lifestyle politics.

scholarly journals Research scholars: temp workers or lifetime students? The struggle and organization of subjectivities that are ‘in between’

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Davide Filippi
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Union Organizing ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Union Activity ◽  
Academic Workforce ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract This article addresses the process of political organization and unionizing among university researchers in Italy which are formally considered to be ‘in training’. This condition puts them in a sort of liminal space, between being recognized as fully employed professionals and being instead considered lifetime students. Their effort to organize politically can be seen as one of many ways through which students are fighting against the establishment of the neoliberal university model. The analysis is focused on the Italian movement called CRNS - Coordinamento dei Ricercatori non Strutturati (Non-structured Research Fellows Coordination), which formed to address this defining issue. The CRNS experiment aimed at achieving a sense of unity among the fragmented academic workforce and it can be considered a prototype of a new, grassroots form of union activity and organizing. The empirical data used in the analysis consists of ten in-depth interviews with university researchers, all Italian citizens, equally divided between men and women, who have all had to move around, as a function of their career and who have all been involved, to different degrees, in political and union organizing initiatives, regarding their conditions of ‘perpetual students’ rather than ‘not quite employed’.

scholarly journals CHARACTERIZATION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN A STATE FROM THE SOUTHEAST REGION OF BRAZIL

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidieine Gonçalves Kataguiri ◽  
Lúcia Marina Scatena ◽  
Leiner Resende Rodrigues ◽  
Sybelle de Souza Castro
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
White Female ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Female Victims ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
Correspondence Factor Analysis ◽  
Chi Square Test

ABSTRACT Objective: to verify the association between victims of sexual violence and the sociodemographic aspects related to exposure in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Method: an ecological study, where the database of the Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação, SINAN provided by the Minas Gerais State Health Department was used. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the chi-square test, and Multiple Correspondence Factor Analysis (p≤0.05). Results: stepfathers were the predominant offenders, associated with schooling from 0 to 4th grade, brown-skinned ethnicity, and the residence as place of occurrence. When the offender was the father, there was association with an unknown place of occurrence, followed by the residence, abuse of male children between 0 and 9 years old, and living in municipalities from 200 to 500 thousand inhabitants. Stranger aggressors were associated with white female victims aged 15 years old or over, schooling between 5th grade and higher education, single act of sexual violence, in which physical violence was used and occurrence on public roads. Conclusion: sexual violence affects mainly women and children, the former being attacked on public roads and the latter in their own home environment by a known offender.

scholarly journals REALITY OF PROTECTION FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE VICTIMS: COMPREHENSIVE PROTECTION ANALYSIS FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE VICTIMS

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-183
Author(s):  
Diandra Preludio Ramada
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Sexual Crimes ◽  
Preliminary Information ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Victim Protection ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Physical Recovery

Lack of research on victims, especially victims of sexual crimes, whereas cases of sexual crimes are increasingly prevalent in the community. Victim protection is urgently needed to address the increasing number of victims who are not immediately noticed as law enforcers pay more attention to the perpetrators, while victims who suffer physically and psychologically, materially and spiritually, are largely ignored. There are two things that make the offer of protection become important for the victim. First, how to make victims for whom the protection is held, they feel that they are given a sense of security and comfort as citizens protected from the evil that constantly lurks. Second, how to ensure that protection institutions can be achieved with adequate social, economic and cultural aspects.This research aims to find two important things: (1). Finding framework and system of victim protection innovation in Semarang (2). Find and understand the most urgent needs of victims for psychological and physical recovery so that victims can reactivate like other citizens. The benefit of this research is to provide scientific information about the opportunities and barriers to the application of innovative protection for victims in the environment. Thus, the institution can be built especially for victims of sexual violence, as well as the preparation of aspirative and compatible programsThe research method used is qualitative research that rely on information from the first hand, both concerning the application of innovation protection and efforts to find the framework of innovation, it will be pursued stages of research stages, ranging from the determination of the object and place of research, the determination of unit analysis and observation unit, to intensive research in the field. Preliminary information was collected through a survey with questionnaires and interview guides. In addition, focus groups will be set up based on the diversity of informants. The deepening of the data is done by combining in-depth interviews and focused discussions.The findings of this research will result in a model of protection that has legitimacy for the community. The protection model is in great demand and beneficial to victims who have not been noticed.

scholarly journals Etnografia z sercem na dłoni. Antropologia wiedzy o relacjach Romów z nie-Romami

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-85
Author(s):  
Maciej Witkowski
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Depth Interviews

The author reflects on the conditions connected with obtaining data through in-depth interviews. He argues that in studies on the relations of the Romani with non-Romani peoples the issue is particularly sensitive yet seldom considered. In consideration of the social and cultural distance that ordinarily divides the ethnographer and the research subject, and the interpersonal conditions of their encounter, the author calls attention to the deliberate manner in which the researcher’s academic knowledge is engaged in creating empirical ethnographic data. In conclusion, he proposes a research program that would make it possible to define the sense of the “empirical data” category in contemporary anthropology in relation to the majority community and the Romani.

Greek Politicians and the Use of Online Technologies for Citizen Engagement

2015 ◽  
pp. 1255-1273
Author(s):  
Savvas Papagiannidis ◽  
Teta Stamati ◽  
Hartmut Behr
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Citizen Engagement ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
Online Presence ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Online Strategies ◽  
Clear Communication ◽  
Depth Interviews

This chapter examines how politicians utilise Internet technologies to create an online presence, the motivating and hindering factors for doing so, and the perceived significance such a presence can have. The authors present empirical data collected via in-depth interviews with Greek politicians taking part in the general elections of 2012. The findings suggest that although politicians are increasingly interested in engaging with citizens using online technologies, their efforts are not always focused on achieving measurable and tangible results. Consequently, they do not make full use of the potential online technologies offer. Instead, the authors conclude, online strategies need to be organised around predefined objectives and based on clear communication and engagement plans.

Tourism Company's Values Profiles

2017 ◽  
pp. 155-174
Author(s):  
Veronika I. Kabalina ◽  
Kira V. Reshetnikova ◽  
Marina D. Predvoditeleva
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Senior Management ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Business Values ◽  
Tourism Organization ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Tour Operator

This paper presents the results of research into the values which are adhered to a Russian tour operator and the employees' personal business values. The empirical data of this research includes the company's internal documents, four in-depth interviews with senior management employees, and a survey of 98 employees. The value profiles of the organization and its employees were identified, as well as the areas in which they converged and diverged. This research shed some light on those values which are characteristic of a tourism organization, and attempted to fill the gap in the extant knowledge on this topic in the academic literature.

A feminist reflection on male victims of conflict-related sexual violence

2020 ◽  
pp. 135050682090498
Author(s):  
Louise du Toit ◽  
Elisabet le Roux
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Male Victims ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Victims ◽  
Humanitarian Response ◽  
Patriarchal Ideology ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

The authors identify a pervasive tendency, especially in the world of development and humanitarian response, to hierarchize or prioritize certain types of victims of sexual violence in armed conflict over others. Within this broader context, they focus on what a considered feminist acknowledgement of male victims of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) should look like. On the one hand, they emphasize that one and the same patriarchal template is used to humiliate and shame male and female victims of sexual violence alike. On the other, they urge that in light of the pervasiveness of patriarchal ideology and its harmful and wide-reaching social effects, the time is not yet ripe to endorse a gender-blind approach to CRSV.

scholarly journals On the relativity of old and new media: A lifeworld perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Menke ◽  
Christian Schwarzenegger
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Media Change ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Accurate Observation

It is an old, yet, accurate observation that the ‘newness’ of media is and most probably will continue to be a catalyst for research in media and communication studies. At the same time, there are numerous academic voices who stress that studying media change demands an awareness of the complexities at play interweaving the new with the old and the changes with the continuities. Over the last decades, compelling theoretical approaches and conceptualizations were introduced that aimed at grasping what defines old and new media under the conditions of complex, disruptive media change. Drawing from this theoretical work, we propose an empirical approach that departs from the perception of media users and how they make sense of media in their everyday affairs. The article argues that an inquiry of media change has to ground the construction of media as old or new in the context of lifeworlds in which media deeply affect users on a daily basis from early on. The concept of media ideology (Gershon, 2010a, 2010b) is used to investigate notions of ‘oldness’ and ‘newness’ people develop when they renegotiate the meaning of media for themselves or collectively with others. Based on empirical data from 35 in-depth interviews, distinct ways how the relativity but also relationality of old and new media are shaped against each other are identified. In the analysis, the article focuses on the aspects of rhetoric, everyday experiences, and emotions as well as on media generations, all of which inform media ideologies and thereby influence how media users define old and new media.

Man a Kill a Man for Nutin’: Gang Transnationalism, Masculinities, and Violence in Belize City

2019 ◽  
pp. 1097184X1987278
Author(s):  
Adam Baird
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Homicide Rates ◽  
Local Dynamics ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Connections

Belize has one of the highest homicide rates in the world; however, the gangs at the heart of this violence have rarely been studied. Using a masculinities lens and original empirical data, this article explores how Blood and Crip “gang transnationalism” from the United States of America flourished in Belize City. Gang transnationalism is understood as a “transnational masculinity” that makes cultural connections between local settings of urban exclusion. On one hand, social terrains in Belize City generated masculine vulnerabilities to the foreign gang as an identity package with the power to reconfigure positions of subordination; on the other, the establishment of male gang practices with a distinct hegemonic shape, galvanized violence and a patriarchy of the streets in already marginalized communities. This article adds a new body of work on gangs in Belize, and gang transnationalism, whilst contributing to theoretical discussions around the global to local dynamics of hegemonic masculinities discussed by Connell and Messerschmidt (2005) and Messerschmidt (2018).

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