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Book SynopsisApplying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence emphasizes the strength of an applied anthropology and ethnographic approach to ending gender-based violence worldwide. This book sets an activist and engaged agenda for scholars and students to follow as they work to blend passion, theory, and methods in their efforts to end violence.
Trade Review'Sometimes working in the field of gender-based violence can be lonely,' the editors of this volume remark in their introductory chapter. 'It is underfunded work, often unrecognized, and in some cases, seems unending and unsolvable.' Hence, the studies in this book, grounded by ethnographic data and impelled by social activism, are a valuable addition to the anthropological corpus. Contributors demonstrate that gender-based violence is global in its reach and culturally nuanced within local contexts. They also make clear the challenges of using feminist ideas to effect positive social changes. The strongest chapters, Mark Schuller’s discussion of post-earthquake Haiti and Melissa Beske’s treatment of intimate partner violence in Belize, for example, attend to gender as intersectional and activism as complicated by researchers’ positionalities. . . .Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries. * CHOICE *
With chapters covering Africa, Asia, Latin and North America, and Oceania, the book provides ample evidence that richly-textured and qualitatively-informed research can illuminate work that is more quantitative in scope. . . .The volume contains useful insights that, when combined with the efforts of other disciplines, offer solutions to the problem of gender-based violence. * Quinnipiac University News + Events *
This volume represents a new generation of anthropological thinking on gender-based violence: at once, local and global, refusing to choose between culture and political economy (or bodies and minds), and presenting complex analyses of pragmatic efforts to resolve entrenched social problems while also recognizing the potentials and pitfalls of relying on "community" or engagement with a bureaucratic and capitalist state. Wies and Haldane have assembled an impressive ethnographic collection that documents collaborative, and sometimes contentious, efforts by scholars, activists and survivors to better understand and thus undermine gender-based violence within contexts (e.g. natural disasters, political violence, university campuses) and among people (e.g. trafficked indigenous women, fathers, scholar-activists) not often included in studies of gender-based violence. -- Madelaine Adelman, Arizona State University
Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments IntroductionReturn to the Local: Lessons for Global Change Jennifer R. Wies and Hillary J. Haldane Part I Ethnographic Intimacies Chapter 1Domestic Violence, Embodiment, and Women's Lives in Northern Vietnam Lynn Kwiatkowski Chapter 2 Bureaucratic Bindings: Refugee Resettlement and Intimate Partner Abuse Elizabeth Wirtz Part II Multi-Scalar Responses to Gender-Based Violence Chapter 3 Munted: Rebuilding Community after Disaster Hillary J. Haldane Chapter 4 Gender-Based Violence and the State in Guatemala’s Genocide and Beyond M. Gabriela Torres Chapter 5 Prostitution Diversion Programs Structural Violence Yasmina Katsulis Part III Critical Challenges in the Anthropology of Gender-Based Violence Chapter 6 Sex Trafficking of Native Peoples: History, Race, and Law April D. J. Petillo Chapter 7 Pa Manyen Fanm Nan Konsa: Understanding Violence against Women afterHaiti’s Earthquake Mark Schuller Chapter 8 Campus Sexual Violence Policies and Practices: A Holistic and Historical Approach to Research and Practice Jennifer R. Wies Part IVAvenues for Change Chapter 9 “I’m a REAL Father Now!” Using Applied Anthropology to Promote Positive Masculinities to Reduce Family Violence in Northern Uganda Rebecka Lundgren and Kimberly Ashburn Chapter 10 Employing Scholar-Activist Anthropology to Counter Gender-Based Violence in Belize Melissa Beske Chapter 11 Intimate Partner Violence, Social Change, and Scholar-Activism in Coastal Ecuador Karin Friederic Bibliography About the Author
