scholarly journals Crafting New Narratives of Diasporic Resistance with Indo-Caribbean Women and Gender-Expansive People across Generations

Societies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Arita Balaram
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Digital Archiving ◽  
Caribbean Women ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Oral History Interviews

This study used participatory oral history and digital archiving to explore two interrelated questions: How do Indo-Caribbean women and gender-expansive people across generations experience processes of storytelling? What are the challenges and possibilities of oral history and digital archiving for constructing alternative histories and genealogies of resistance? In the first phase of the study, twelve Indo-Caribbean women and gender-expansive people across generations participated in an oral history workshop where they were introduced to oral history methods, co-created an interview guide, conducted oral history interviews of one another, and engaged in collective reflection about processes of storytelling. In the second phase, four co-authors of a community-owned digital archive participated in semi-structured interviews about their work to craft new narratives of diasporic resistance rooted in the everyday stories of Indo-Caribbean women and gender-expansive people. In this paper, I analyze how Indo-Caribbean women and gender-expansive people practice resistance by breaking silences in their communities around gender-based oppression, shift norms through producing analyses of their own stories, and reshape community narratives. Furthermore, I explore how oral history participants and co-authors of a digital archive understand the risks associated with sharing stories, raising the ethical dilemmas associated with conceptualizing storytelling as purely liberatory.

Decolonizing Decolonization: An Indigenous Feminist Perspective on the Recognition and Rights Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 371-391
Author(s):  
Sherry Pictou
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

The “Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Rights Framework,” announced in 2018 by the federal government was originally hailed as a process for decolonization. Though the framework was withdrawn in December 2018, several policy and legislative initiatives give every indication that the framework is moving forward. In this regard, the paper seeks to open up a discussion about how decolonization is being conceptualized in the new Rights Framework from an Indigenous feminist perspective. I highlight tensions between patriarchy, neoliberalism, and contradictory concepts of decolonization to demonstrate how the Rights Framework manifests a contemporary form of patriarchal colonialism in state-Indigenous politics, especially self-government negotiations, that will continue to negatively impact Indigenous women and gender diverse persons. I further argue how the MMIWG Inquiry Final Report released in June 2019, cannot be mobilized as a tool for decolonization in seeking social justice for Indigenous women and gender diverse persons without their active knowledge and experience in directing how the recommendations are implemented. By foregrounding this experience with an intersectional, gender based analysis + or GBA+ (gender and gender diverse inclusive), and a human rights approach, I suggest there is potential for achieving Indigenous sovereignty over our bodies as well as over the land and waters in ways that are conducive to our resilience and freedom as Indigenous people.

Equal Rights for Women and Gender-Based Discrimination

2018 ◽  
pp. 686-709
Author(s):  
Lucius J. Barker ◽  
Twiley W. Barker ◽  
Michael W. Combs ◽  
Kevin L. Lyles ◽  
H.W. Perry
Keyword(s):  
Equal Rights ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Nationwide multi-channel sexual reproductive health and gender based violence messaging campaign in Sierra Leone (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emeka Chukwu ◽  
Sonia Gilroy ◽  
John Sesay ◽  
Lalit Garg ◽  
Kim Eva Dickson
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Significant Drop ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Sexual Reproductive Health ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

BACKGROUND UNFPA launched two one-month campaigns to reach Sierra Leoneans at scale with critical Sexual Reproductive Health and gender-based violence messages during the Coronavirus 2019 pandemic. OBJECTIVE The intervention objective was to deliver Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) and gender-based violence (GBV) messages to mobile phone subscribers in Sierra Leone. This paper presents the intervention’s messaging campaign design, deployment methodologies, and design-decisions; shows campaign effectiveness; and share lessons learned, including call pickup rates and listening-duration. METHODS We designed and deployed a two-phased campaign – phase one targeted Freetown (urban) residents, and phase two targeted Sierra Leoneans nationwide (urban and rural). Phase one delivered Family Planning, Maternal Health, Gender Based Violence (GBV), and Coronavirus 2019 messages through automated voice calls, SMS, radio jingles, and social media. Phase two of the campaign delivered national GBV only campaign messages through SMS and Radio jingles. RESULTS In phase one, only 31% of the 1,093,606 initiated automated calls to 290,000 subscribers were picked up, and this dropped significantly at 95% confidence (p=1) after each of the four weeks. Also, at 95% confidence levels, a significant number of subscribers did not listen to the complete messages when repeated (p=1). Thirty-one million two hundred (31.2 million) SMS messages were sent to all 3.9 million active Africell subscribers in Sierra Leone during the second phase. Also, SRH and GBV messages were aired on thirteen national radio stations in Sierra Leone during the second phase. The national toll free helpline for GBV cases reported an increase in calls and attributed it to the campaign. Automated call interventions are cost and human resource intensive. Call pickup rates, listening duration, language, and consideration for users’ ability to re-reference messages are key factors when selecting scalable messaging campaign channels. The drop in the number of subscribers picking up automated calls from the first to fourth week was significant at a confidence level of 95%. According to the GBV helpline operators, the increase in calls reporting GBV was attributable to our campaign. CONCLUSIONS Only a third of subscribers called with pre-recorded messages picked up their calls. When automated calls are repeated, it leads to a significant drop in call completion rates. There was an increase in demand for service to the GBV helpline in the month following the campaign. A multi-channel messaging campaign helped reach different groups of young people.

scholarly journals Gendering the Arab Spring

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadje Al-Ali
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Gender Regimes ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
And Control

The article discusses the gendered implications of recent political developments in the region. It argues that women and gender are key to both revolutionary and counter-revolutionary processes and developments and not marginal to them. It explores the significance of women’s involvement, the historical context of women’s political participation and marginalization in political transition. Theoretically, developments in the region point to the centrality of women and gender when it comes to constructing and controlling communities, be they ethnic, religious or political; the significance of the state in reproducing, maintaining and challenging prevailing gender regimes, ideologies, discourses and relations; the instrumentalization of women’s bodies and sexualities in regulating and controlling citizens and members of communities; the prevalence of gender-based violence; the historically and cross-culturally predominant construction of women as second-class citizens; the relationship between militarization and a militarized masculinity that privileges authoritarianism, social hierarchies and tries to marginalize and control not only women but also non-normative men.

Past Forward: Oral History Interviews with Holocaust Survivors and Storytelling

Collections ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Uta Larkey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Holocaust Survivors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
New Research ◽  
Oral History Interviews

This article highlights new research opportunities on oral history interviews and storytelling. From 2003 to 2013, Goucher College students interviewed Holocaust survivors in Baltimore, Maryland, and publicly retold their stories on campuses, in schools, and in synagogues. These oral history interviews and storytelling presentations are stored in digital form in the Special Collections at the Goucher Library and are currently in the process of being made available online. The students used their chronologically structured interviews to develop their own narration of the survivors’ accounts. The interviews and presentations include a wide variety of survival experiences all over war-torn Europe as well as the survivors’ recollections of their arrival in the United States. The Goucher Testimony Collection adds another aspect to existing archived oral history interviews: the survivors entrust their stories to interviewers the ages of their own grandchildren. The interviews as well as the digitized storytelling presentations are a rich source for comparative analyses with interviews from other collections and/or other forms of testimonies. The techniques and approaches are also applicable to other oral history/storytelling projects, such as with war veterans or immigrants.

scholarly journals Food labour, consumption hierarchies, and diet decision-making in Sri Lankan households: a qualitative study

BMC Nutrition ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Renzella ◽  
S. Fernando ◽  
B. Kalupahana ◽  
P. Scarborough ◽  
M. Rayner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Dietary Guidelines ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Dietary Interventions ◽  
Double Burden ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Context Specific

Abstract Background Sri Lanka faces the double burden of over- and undernutrition. To tackle this dual challenge, double duty interventions that improve the quality of the Sri Lankan diet in line with national dietary guidelines have been suggested. The success of these interventions depends upon an understanding of the context-specific factors that impact their uptake within the population. The purpose of this study was threefold: explore household responsibility for food-related labour; understand food decision-making influences; and investigate consumption hierarchies that might impact the distribution of intervention benefits. Methods We conducted face-to-face semi-structured interviews with 93 Sri Lankan adults residing in urban Colombo (n = 56), and urban and rural sectors in Kalutara (n = 29) and Trincomalee (n = 8). Interview data were analysed thematically. Results Findings from this study suggest that women in Sri Lanka continue to shoulder the burden of food-related labour disproportionately to men but that this responsibility is not always a proxy for dietary decision-making power. While men are often absent from the kitchen, their role in food purchasing and payment is prominent in many households. Despite these observed gender differences in food labour and provisioning, “traditional” age- and gender-based consumption hierarchies with negative nutrition consequences for women and children are not common, indicating that Sri Lankan ‘table culture’ may be changing. Conclusion Dietary interventions with the aim of influencing day-to-day practice should be developed with an awareness of who is responsible for, who is able to perform, and who influences targeted behaviours.

The Gendered Hidden Curriculum of Adventure Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Warren ◽  
Denise Mitten ◽  
Chiara D’Amore ◽  
Erin Lotz
Keyword(s):  
Adventure Education ◽  
Hidden Curriculum ◽  
White Men ◽  
Potential Effect ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Modified Delphi ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Background: Critical examination by adventure educators in North American colleges and universities reveals that students receive messages about the nature of adventure education through both the intentional and hidden curriculum. Purpose: The study was designed to discover adventure education’s hidden curriculum and its potential effect on women in adventure education. Methodology/Approach: The phenomenon of the hidden curriculum was examined using a modified Delphi method. Three rounds of questionnaires solicited knowledge from a panel of experts (21 females and 18 males), who had tenure of at least 15 years in the adventure education field, to obtain a reliable semi-consensus of opinion. Findings/Conclusions: Gender-based hidden curriculum messages were found, including the prioritizing of values and traits perceived to be predominantly male, linguistic sexism, assumptions about outdoor identity, outdoor career messages, gender insensitive facilitation and teaching, and the centering of White men in the field’s history. Implications: The proposed strategies to consciously address sexism and gender role conditioning in the adventure education’s hidden curriculum may benefit women and gender-nonconforming participants and leaders.

Organizing Baristas in Halifax Cafes: Precarious Work and Gender and Class Identities in the Millennial Generation

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 485-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel K. Brickner ◽  
Meaghan Dalton
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

In 2012–2015, baristas engaged in union drives at five cafes in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In a series of semi-structured interviews with participants in and supporters of these drives, it became clear that issues of gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity were critical in understanding why and how these union drives evolved: women and queer baristas experienced gender-based discrimination and marginalization at work; they were noted leaders in some of the drives and drew on activist networks to rally community support for the unionization effort. Finally, issues of gender and sexuality informed some of the baristas’ broader economic analysis. We argue that the barista union drive in Halifax illustrates a framework for understanding how gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation inform unjust experiences in precarious workplaces and strategies for confronting them. A gendered analysis of the barista union drives underscores the importance of organized labor’s outreach to young workers and, further, that engaging with workers with attention to intersectionality is an important organizational strategy.

Islam, Arab women's entrepreneurship and the construal of success

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayfaa A. Tlaiss ◽  
Maura McAdam
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Subjective Success ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to explore how Arab Muslim women entrepreneurs construe success, their identity as successful and the influence of Islam on these construals in the country-specific context of Lebanon.Design/methodology/approachTo achieve our aim, a qualitative interpretative methodology, drawing upon 25 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Muslim women entrepreneurs was adopted.FindingsEquipped with Islamic feminism, Arab women entrepreneurs experienced Islam as a malleable resource. Islam allowed them to construe success and their identity as successful at the juncture of their lived experiences as business owners, Muslims of good character and standing and Arab females. Ultimately, Islam unfolded as a dynamic religion that supports women's agency in a landscape dominated by deeply entrenched patriarchal societal and cultural norms and gender-based restrictions.Originality/valueFirst, we contribute to research on the effect of Islam on entrepreneurship by demonstrating the influence of Islam on women's identity construction as successful and their construals of success. Second, we contribute to research on how entrepreneurs construe success beyond situating their construals of success in opposing camps of either objective or subjective success. Third, we contribute to research on identity construction and identity work by demonstrating how Muslim women entrepreneurs' identity as successful is construed at the intersection of their personal and social identities.

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