scholarly journals Surviving Domestic Violence in an Indian-Australian Household: An Autoethnography of Resilience

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amarpreet Abraham
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Australian Woman ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Woman Teacher ◽  
Domestically Violent ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Values And Beliefs

This study explores how my personal experiences with domestic violence in my family have shaped my identity and my current self as an Indian-Australian woman, teacher, and researcher. Domestic violence touches many children and their families and affects their sense of identity and belonging as individuals and in their social spaces. An autoethnographical method is used to investigate my experiences within a domestically violent family and how it has shaped my identity as an Indian-Australian woman. The study reveals various themes including three themes that were noted to be the most significant: patriarchy in Indian culture, resilience, identity and belonging. The study reveals my ongoing struggle in a domestically violent household, feeling torn between protecting my mother and protecting myself. It offers insights into how cultural backgrounds, social frameworks and social values and beliefs may influence others and their development as a person.

What is a story?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Stanghellini
Keyword(s):  
Reciprocal Exchange ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Values And Beliefs

This chapter argues that care is the occasion to start a shared project of reciprocal understanding between patient and clinician, and this project implies taking each other’s values into account. Coexistence, rather than consensus, is the framework within which this encounter is posited. This practice entails supporting the patient in making explicit her personal horizon of meaning (values and beliefs, i.e. ‘culture’), within which her narrative is set, and encouraging the clinician in making explicit to the patient his own set of theoretical assumptions, personal experiences, values, and beliefs explicit. This promotes a reciprocal exchange of perspectives with his patient, as well as the co-construction of a new meaningful narrative that includes and, if possible, integrates contributions from both the original perspectives. The clinician tolerates diversity and potential conflicts of values and beliefs, and facilitates coexistence when it is not possible to establish consensus.

Varying Perspectives on the Treatment of Domestic Violence in New Zealand

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hillary Haldane
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Elder Abuse ◽  
National Level ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds

Women's refuges have existed in New Zealand since 1973 and today over two hundred various community and national level organizations work with victims and perpetrators of domestic violence, sexual assault, elder abuse, and child endangerment. New Zealand service providers and government officials view their work in the area of violence against women as part of an international effort with an obligation to uphold the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, or CEDAW as it is widely known, a treaty ratified by the country in 1985. While there is considerable governmental and nongovernmental support for those whose lives are touched by violence, there is also considerable tension over how to best design and deliver the services to those who need them. New Zealand is a diverse nation with a large indigenous population and growing Pasifika and Asian communities. Many of the recent debates center on how to best design programs for a multicultural population while still privileging the rights of the indigenous Maori. New Zealand's experience in addressing violence against women illustrates the disjunction between transnational discourses of violence against women, and the proposed international solutions to the problem, and the local efforts to help survivors from diverse cultural backgrounds. First, I will provide a brief description of how services are designed and delivered in New Zealand. Second, I will outline the main philosophical disagreements found among social service providers. Third, I discuss why research on the front-line has the potential to tell us a great deal about the limits of international treaties and enhance our response to violence against women.

scholarly journals POLA RELASI RUMAH TANGGA KOMUNITAS SANTRI PELAKU PERNIKAHAN DINI

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-154
Author(s):  
Muhammad Adib ◽  
Siti A'isyah
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Early Marriage ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Trafficking In Women ◽  
Women And Children

The focus of this research is about the pattern of relationships that are built in the households resulting from early marriage among the santri community in three villages in Gondanglegi District, Malang Regency, namely Ganjaran, Putukrejo and Sukosari - three villages with the strongest pesantren base in Gondanglegi region. The starting point is the strengthening of the assumption that early marriage is one of the main causes of domestic violence - where women are always victims, divorce and even trafficking in women and children. The study using this phenomenological approach concluded that the pattern of relationships built in the households resulting from early marriage of the santri community does require an adaptation process, from submission to agreement, with the uniqueness of each partner. However, the households they cultivate persist and last normally as households in general. The teachings of religion and the social values ​​about household that they hold firm, as part of the typical character of the santri community, are one of the strength factors.

scholarly journals MyStory: Scary Head…

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gonca Soyer ◽  
Mehmet Soyer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Symbolic Meanings

This work is an example of critical autoethnographic study of the writer’s personal experiences. In this particular study, I share my experiences while wearing a headscarf in Turkey, and my desire to settle down in United States in order to pursue my academic career. Due to the political changes in Turkey and United States, my experiences while wearing a headscarf in academia and social environments triggered me to write a reflection about them. In this article, my goal is to deconstruct the symbolic meanings of the Muslim headscarf in social spaces. In addition, the piece will show my “double consciousness" feelings of the societies in which I live in.

scholarly journals Emergent Typologies of Small Businesses in a Multi-ethnic Wet Market in Malaysia: A Phenomenological Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-200
Author(s):  
Teik Aun Wong
Keyword(s):  
Small Businesses ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
Field Site ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Wet Market ◽  
Local Languages

Small businesses are an invaluable source of local knowledge that provide insights into indigenous commercial, cultural and social values and beliefs.  This article explores various emergent typologies of small businesses in a multi-ethnic Southeast Asian wet market principally with regards to their social responsibility and sustainability.  The field site is Jelutong wet market in Penang, Malaysia.  The philosophical and methodological framework is phenomenology, and principal data-collection tool is semi-structured interview.  Thirty (30) primary interviews and five (5) verification interviews were conducted in various local languages and dialects.  Three (3) typologies emerged and named the Lifestyle, Livelihood and Legacy typologies.    Identifying and understanding these three (3) typologies in small businesses provide important inputs for public policy.

Feminist activism in digital space: Postfeminist contradictions in #WhyIStayed

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 1827-1848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmine R Linabary ◽  
Danielle J Corple ◽  
Cheryl Cooky
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Victim Blaming ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Scholars have argued that digital spaces are key sites for feminist activism, which can be seen in the emergence of “hashtag feminism,” or the use of social media hashtags to address feminist-identified issues through sharing personal experiences of inequality, constructing counter-discourses, and critiquing cultural figures and institutions. However, more empirical research is needed that examines both the possibilities and constraints of hashtag feminism. Through a qualitative analysis of 51,577 archived tweets and semi-structured interviews, we trace the ways #WhyIStayed creates a space for feminist activism in response to victim-blaming related to domestic violence through voice, multivocality, and visibility. More specifically, we critically analyze postfeminist discourses within #WhyIStayed in order to examine contradictions within the hashtag event as well as how these postfeminist contradictions shape possibilities for feminist activism online.

Culturally Responsive Teaching to Empower Indigenous Student Communities

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Ingrid N. Pinto-López ◽  
Cynthia M. Montaudon-Tomas ◽  
Marisol Muñoz-Ortiz ◽  
Ivonne M. Montaudon -Tomas
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Responsive Teaching ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Private University ◽  
Responsive Teaching ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Community Growth ◽  
The University

This chapter presents an example of culturally responsive teaching, CRT, in a private university in Puebla, Mexico. The university developed a program to integrate indigenous students into higher education programs promoting personal development and community growth. CRT has been used as a methodology that promotes inclusion in the classroom, helping students connect their cultural backgrounds in the new context. In the study, focus groups were conducted and students' narratives were collected based on their personal experiences during their stay at the university. Additionally, the CRT Survey was applied to a sample of professors who taught indigenous students in their courses.

Culturally Responsive Teaching to Empower Indigenous Student Communities

2021 ◽  
pp. 203-225
Author(s):  
Ingrid N. Pinto-López ◽  
Cynthia M. Montaudon-Tomas ◽  
Marisol Muñoz-Ortiz ◽  
Ivonne M. Montaudon -Tomas
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Responsive Teaching ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Private University ◽  
Responsive Teaching ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Community Growth ◽  
The University

This chapter presents an example of culturally responsive teaching, CRT, in a private university in Puebla, Mexico. The university developed a program to integrate indigenous students into higher education programs promoting personal development and community growth. CRT has been used as a methodology that promotes inclusion in the classroom, helping students connect their cultural backgrounds in the new context. In the study, focus groups were conducted and students' narratives were collected based on their personal experiences during their stay at the university. Additionally, the CRT Survey was applied to a sample of professors who taught indigenous students in their courses.

Counseling Heterosexual Women Arrested for Domestic Violence: Implications for Theory and Practice

1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Kevin Hamberger ◽  
Theresa Potente
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Battered Women ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Community Intervention ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Mandatory Arrest ◽  
Heterosexual Women ◽  
Domestically Violent ◽  
Court Mandated

With increasing emphasis in recent years on mandatory arrest for partner violence, there has been a concomitant increase in the number of females arrested for assaulting their partners. The present paper describes the process one community experienced to understand and appropriately intervene with women who had been arrested for domestic violence and referred to court-mandated treatment. Issues related to conceptualization of the problem, identifying intervention goals and defining the intervention targets were discussed. Research with the community sample of domestically violent indicated most were motivated by a need to defend themselves from their partner’s assaults, or are retaliating for previous batterings. As such, the intervention focused on issues of victimization and oppression. It is further suggested that intervention programs for domestically violent women must take place in the context of a broader community intervention which involves training and interaction with law enforcement and criminal justice agencies to determine criteria for arrest and prosecution of battered women when they fight back to protect themselves.

Does the Transtheoretical Model Predict Attrition in Domestic Violence Treatment Programs?

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Normand Brodeur ◽  
Gilles Rondeau ◽  
Serge Brochu ◽  
Jocelyn Lindsay ◽  
Jason Phelps
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Stages Of Change ◽  
Transtheoretical Model ◽  
Decisional Balance ◽  
Treatment Programs ◽  
Motivation To Change ◽  
Canadian French ◽  
Domestically Violent ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Domestic Violence Treatment

Attrition in intervention programs for domestically violent men is considered to be a serious and enduring problem. Researchers have found a number of sociodemographic variables that partially explain this phenomenon; however, models based on these variables have a limited predictive power. Scott (2004) argues that a firm theoretical base is needed in future investigations of the problem and suggests the use of the transtheoretical model of behavior change (TTM), which was found to predict dropout with accuracy in other areas of behavioral change. This study investigated the relationship between four TTM constructs (Stages of Change, Decisional Balance, Self-Efficacy, and Processes of Change) and premature termination with a sample of Canadian French-speaking men (N = 302) in five domestic violence treatment programs. Contrary to the initial hypotheses, the TTM constructs did not predict dropout. Discussion investigates how social desirability bias affects results being obtained by current TTM measures and whether more motivation to change at intake necessarily relates to involvement in treatment for longer periods of time.

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