scholarly journals Circle of Aunties Fostering Co-conspiratorship with Families of mmiwgt2s in the Resistance of Settler Colonial Violence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Heidenheim
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Educational Tools ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Colonial Violence ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Racialized Gender

This paper details the co-research creation project “Circle of Aunties” outlining our processes, contributions and key learnings. The paper will begin by locating the author and the project’s approach and move to detailing our process - exploring the Circle of Aunties toolkit and the coresearch creation process. The paper will then outline the contribution this project makes to educational tools that create awareness around racialized gender-based violence in Canada and its relationship to existing literature regarding co-conspirator work. Co-conspirator/accomplice work are “alternative framework(s)” to allyship which call for “white scholars and activists to act as accomplices, working in solidarity with people of color within social justice and anti-racist movements” (Powell Kelly, 42). This paper explores our process of co-conspiratorship, bringing our project into conversation with contemporary anti-colonial efforts and calling for the prefacing of relationship in anti-colonial projects. Key Words: Co-conspiratorship, Accomplice, MMIWGT2S, Racialized Gendered Violence, Settler Colonial Violence, Settler Colonialism, Curriculum

scholarly journals Circle of Aunties Fostering Co-conspiratorship with Families of mmiwgt2s in the Resistance of Settler Colonial Violence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Heidenheim
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Educational Tools ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Colonial Violence ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Racialized Gender

This paper details the co-research creation project “Circle of Aunties” outlining our processes, contributions and key learnings. The paper will begin by locating the author and the project’s approach and move to detailing our process - exploring the Circle of Aunties toolkit and the coresearch creation process. The paper will then outline the contribution this project makes to educational tools that create awareness around racialized gender-based violence in Canada and its relationship to existing literature regarding co-conspirator work. Co-conspirator/accomplice work are “alternative framework(s)” to allyship which call for “white scholars and activists to act as accomplices, working in solidarity with people of color within social justice and anti-racist movements” (Powell Kelly, 42). This paper explores our process of co-conspiratorship, bringing our project into conversation with contemporary anti-colonial efforts and calling for the prefacing of relationship in anti-colonial projects. Key Words: Co-conspiratorship, Accomplice, MMIWGT2S, Racialized Gendered Violence, Settler Colonial Violence, Settler Colonialism, Curriculum

scholarly journals Gendered violence in natural disasters: Learning from New Orleans, Haiti and Christchurch

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqui True
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Social Work Theory ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Indirect Impacts

Why are women so vulnerable to violence and death as a result of disaster compared with men? This article investigates how global environmental forces in the form of natural disasters from floods, droughts and famines to earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes affect women and men differently. Disasters are known to have direct and indirect impacts on gender-based violence particularly against women and girls, revealing a pattern of heightened violence and vulnerability in their aftermath. These gendered impacts are directly relevant to social work theory, practice and advocacy, which seek to promote social wellbeing and to prevent violence in homes and communities during and in the aftermath of disasters. The article argues that women’s unequal economic and social status relative to men before a disaster strikes determines the extent of their vulnerability to violence during and after a crisis. If gender-based violence and women’s particular needs are not addressed in disaster preparedness, disaster recovery plans and humanitarian assistance, then women and girls’ vulnerability will increase. The article offers some lessons based on primary research of responses to the 2010-2011 Christchurch earthquakes against the backdrop of what we know about the responses to an earthquake of similar magnitude in Haiti in 2009. It draws implications from this research for social work theory, practice and advocacy, highlighting the importance of ensuring that future disaster planning and decision making is gender-sensitive.

Resistance in the New Harem Era: Gendered Violence and the Power of Media in the Time of Covid-19 in Morocco

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-41
Author(s):  
Sara El Ouedrhiri ◽  
Hafsa El Mesbahi
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Movement Restriction ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Fatima Mernissi ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The City

In a time of great uncertainties, the world witnesses, for the very first instance in its modern history a global lockdown spanning over all the vital spheres of economic and social life. At this point, when neither leaving home nor staying is an option, the surge to exponentially study the manner in which human life has evolved and been shaped under such circumstances gained valuable interest, especially within the circles of feminist and human rights-based academia. Respectively, researchers argue that the weight of the lockdown and movement restriction policies fall discriminately on men and women as they are interestingly leading such novel experiences in different ways. Men, by having no concern mounting to the priority of protecting themselves from being inflicted by this global pandemic and maintaining their economic roles as the traditional family providers, and women on the margin side of the picture, having to deal with the burden of surviving the dangers that the outside and the inside worlds akin dispose. Henceforth, this article is an attempt to probe the dynamics of the private sphere considering the intersections between oppression, seclusion and violence and the development of new dynamics of resistance by transposing from the early 20th century’s feminine experience of confinement and the 21st century’s global lockdown in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. This research considers the stories presented by the renowned Moroccan sociologist and author “Fatima Mernissi”, who herself lived a different kind of seclusion behind the colossal and skillfully ostentatious walls of the harem of the city of Fez in the forties of the previous century and this shall be done mainly by reviewing the stories of resistance presented in her memoir Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood; and by considering the stories of five respondents who have shared with us their accounts through various social media outlets upon the surge of the pandemic in Morocco. The purpose here is to unravel the convergences between women’s experiences of gender-based violence (GBV) in both confinements and to foreground the value, significance and challenges these feminine insights being in them simple acts of everyday life constitute in establishing a discourse of resistance and feminine empowerment vis-à-vis patriarchy, seclusion and gender-based violence.

Gendered Violence in Israeli Detention

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 46-61
Author(s):  
Sahar Francis
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Female Prisoners ◽  
Palestinian Women ◽  
Indefinite Detention ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Israeli Occupation

Women have been instrumental to the Palestinian liberation struggle from its inception, and the role they have played in political, civil, and armed resistance has been as critical, if not as visible, as that of their male counterparts. In addition to experiencing the same forms of repression as men, be it arrest, indefinite detention, or incarceration, Palestinian women have also been subjected to sexual violence and other gendered forms of coercion at the hands of the Israeli occupation regime. Drawing on testimonies from former and current female prisoners, this paper details Israel's incarceration policies and examines their consequences for Palestinian women and their families. It argues that Israel uses the incarceration of women as a weapon to undermine Palestinian resistance and to fracture traditionally cohesive social relations; and more specifically, that the prison authorities subject female prisoners to sexual and gender-based violence as a psychological weapon to break them and, by extension, their children.

scholarly journals Defining Justice and Dignity Through Gendered Peace Building: A Case Study of Gender-Based Violence During Armed Conflict in Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-81
Author(s):  
Susan Risal
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
The Body ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Gender Based

The prolonged transition and the long awaited journey for justice for a decade has led to increased anger and frustration among women who survived gendered violence during the Nepali armed conflict (1996-2006). During April 2017-May 2018, a case study fieldwork was conducted with women who survived conflict-related sexual violence during the armed conflict in Nepal. Using a critical theory framework and case study methodology, this research sought to understand how the women who faced gender based violence during the conflict era of Nepal define dignity and justice from their own lived experience and consequently, their needs for reparations. Ultimately, with resulting interventions by presenting these women’s voices and needs to the truth seeking commissions, other government bodies, and national and international organizations working with conflict affected women, women’s quest for dignity, justice and needs could be addressed. The findings of this study have also expanded the body of knowledge and best practices for reconciliation in contexts where gender based violence has been used as a weapon of war.

scholarly journals “It’s a struggle but it’s also a strength”: Embodied declarations of resistance, resilience, and strength amongst survivors of gendered violence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Fontyn
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Female Survivors ◽  
Narrative Methodology ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
Gender Based

This study explores women’s representations and declarations of resilience, resistance, and strength within the context of gender-based violence through photography. A visual-narrative methodology is used to answer the following research question: In what ways do survivors resist gender-based violence at both individual and systemic levels? Photo-elicitation interviews were conducted with a total of three female survivors between the ages of 27 and 35 living in the GTA. The benefits of this study involve reconceptualizing women’s experiences of gender-based violence through creative expression, as well as disrupting dominant ideas of female survivors as “vulnerable victims” by constructing new accounts that depict strong, resilient women. The hopeful outcome of this study is that it informs current and future policy and practice. I hope that scholars, practitioners, and legislators will critically reflect on how their current and past research and practice may fall short of the rights and needs of women they work alongside.

scholarly journals Narrating Gender Violence A Corpus-Based Study on the Representation of Gender-Based Violence in Italian Media

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Busso ◽  
Claudia Roberta Combei ◽  
Ottavia Tordini
Keyword(s):  
Gender Violence ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Multimodal Analysis ◽  
Innovative Methodology ◽  
Linguistic Representations ◽  
Tv Program ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Key Terms

Using a corpus-based and cross-modal approach, this study explores mediatic linguistic representations of gendered violence. Specifically, we analyse a journalistic corpus (WItNECS, Women in Italian Newspaper Crime Sections) and a multimedia dataset of the Italian TV program Amore Criminale (AC). The corpus is explored via collocational analysis of key terms and topic modelling. AC is investigated with a multimodal analysis of speech and gestures. Finally, we compare similarities and differences of newspaper and television language. Findings from this innovative methodology bring new evidence on the mediatic representation of ‘women as victims’.

scholarly journals What Motivates Men’s Involvement in Gender-based Violence Prevention? Latent Class Profiles and Correlates in an International Sample of Men

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin A. Casey ◽  
Richard M. Tolman ◽  
Juliana Carlson ◽  
Christopher T. Allen ◽  
Heather L. Storer
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Personal Connection ◽  
Engagement Strategies ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Men’S Involvement

Data from an international sample of 392 men who had attended gender-based violence (GBV) prevention events were used to examine motivations for involvement in GBV prevention work. Participants responded to an online survey (available in English, French, and Spanish). The most commonly reported reasons for involvement included concern for related social justice issues (87 percent), exposure to the issue of violence through work (70 percent), hearing a moving story about domestic or sexual violence (59 percent), and disclosure of abuse from someone close to the participant (55 percent). Using a latent class analysis, we identified four profiles of men’s motivations: low personal connection (22 percent), empathetic connection (26 percent), violence exposed connection (23 percent), and high personal and empathetic connection (29 percent). Participants classified into these profiles did not differ in length of movement involvement but some differences on key ally variables and by global region did emerge. Implications for engagement strategies and future research are discussed.

scholarly journals INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE: ASSIMILATION, INTERRUPTED: TRANSFORMING DISCOURSES OF CULTURE- AND HONOUR-BASED VIOLENCE IN CANADA

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Mandeep Kaur Mucina ◽  
Amina Jamal
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Forms Of Violence

This special issue about race, honour, culture, and violence against women in South Asian Canadian communities is proffered as an entry point to a wider, multilayered discussion about race, culture, gender, and violence. It hopes to intensify a debate on gendered violence that could tie in with analysis and commentary on individual killings in family-related sites, murders of racialized women and girls in public sites, and other forms of violence against women and girls in society. We encourage readers to consider how to understand the landscape that South Asian Canadian women and girls are confronting, while also asking critical questions about the wider settler colonial system in which we all participate as we fight gender-based violence.

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