SDG 5 aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Browse books and journal articles relating to this SDG below and find out more on the UN Sustainable Development Goals website.
Goal 5: Gender Equality
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Since the 1980s there has been a rapid increase in the available evidence about the prevalence, causes, impacts and responses to gender-based violence (GBV). Despite the explosion of research in this field – and vital contributions from feminist geographers – space and place remain important, yet overlooked, elements of GBV. This edited collection provides an inter- and multidisciplinary international collection of chapters that foregrounds space and place in the analysis of gender-based violence. Contributors examine core questions relating to the role(s) that space and place-based factors might play in facilitating and producing experiences of violence, with attendant implications for prevention and intervention. Contributions to this collection consider how space and place may be productive in the perpetration of gendered violence, as well as shaping how gendered violence is lived and understood by survivors. With an analytic focus spanning the local, national and transnational, this volume brings together diverse perspectives and ways of understanding the interconnections between space, place and gender-based violence.
This chapter examines violence against women by law enforcement officers, staff designated to assist domestic violence survivors in the Directorate to Combat Violence Against Women (DCVAW) and legislators in Iraqi Kurdistan, drawing on an ethnography of women’s experiences of violence in the public sphere, and interviews with domestic violence survivors, senior officials and junior staff working in the Directorate. The survivors and the people designated to assist them held often contrasting views of the objectives of the state in terms of obtaining justice and protection for survivors, and the findings point to a general ineptitude of DCVAW staff members, with many displaying limited and inaccurate knowledge of the domestic violence law that provided the basis for their work. Additionally, the survivors faced further subjugation by DCVAW staff, some of whom stated that violence against women was justified if women transgressed gender norms and who often disbelieved the women’s stories. Survivors were also exposed to verbal violence at the Directorate, often witnessed by the researcher, and even physical violence and confinement.
Since the 1980s there has been a rapid increase in the available evidence about the prevalence, causes, impacts and responses to gender-based violence (GBV). Despite the explosion of research in this field – and vital contributions from feminist geographers – space and place remain important, yet overlooked, elements of GBV. This edited collection provides an inter- and multidisciplinary international collection of chapters that foregrounds space and place in the analysis of gender-based violence. Contributors examine core questions relating to the role(s) that space and place-based factors might play in facilitating and producing experiences of violence, with attendant implications for prevention and intervention. Contributions to this collection consider how space and place may be productive in the perpetration of gendered violence, as well as shaping how gendered violence is lived and understood by survivors. With an analytic focus spanning the local, national and transnational, this volume brings together diverse perspectives and ways of understanding the interconnections between space, place and gender-based violence.
This chapter explores how gender-based family violence is not always limited to the nation state but can also be perpetrated, endured and facilitated transnationally. In research to date only some aspects of what is conceptualized here as transnational regimes of violence have been explored. This study takes a broader approach, outlining (1) transnational elements in regimes of violence, (2) how abuse and control cross national borders and (3) transnationality as a conducive context for regimes of violence. The analysis focuses on violence against women from male partners and in-laws and on violence against adolescent daughters from their parents and other kin. The empirical basis is interviews with women of immigrant background living in Norway and judgments from Norwegian Criminal Courts. Building on established theories of domestic violence as regime and continuum, the concept ‘transnational regime of family violence’ is offered as a contribution to ongoing attempts to theorize the spatiality of gender-based violence. The concept captures how the actors’ attachment to several nation states produces specific opportunity structures for abusers and specific vulnerabilities for the abused.
To date the focus of research in the UK has been on individual-level risk factors of domestic abuse, where variables such as age, gender, ethnicity and repeat victimization have been considered. There have been substantially fewer studies that have considered the geographic variation of abuse and predictors at the neighbourhood level. This chapter identifies how community asset mapping can be used to understand between neighbourhood variation in predicted levels of domestic abuse. In particular, the research finds that looking into the strengths in a community enables a fuller understanding of the dynamics that impact where people will seek help. It also reveals the importance of social capital and collective efficacy and the influence that the neighbourhood composition has on the amount of abuse that is reported to the police.
Interdisciplinary empirical and theoretical work on violence against rural women has mushroomed since the turn of the century. Heavily influenced by the recent scholarly contributions of a few Australian feminist criminologists, the main objective of this chapter is twofold: (1) to examine what the extant social scientific literature reveals about how the social and contextual characteristics of rurality contribute to high rates of male-to-female abuse in private places and (2) to suggest new directions in empirical work. The new avenues of empirical inquiry recommended here are cross-cultural surveys, prospective and longitudinal studies, quantitative research on male-to-female psychological abuse, and studies of the extent, nature, distribution, causes and consequences of the online victimization of women living in non-metropolitan areas.
Written by an interdisciplinary collective of authors, this powerful book documents the largely unknown histories and politics of trans lives, activisms and culture across the post-Yugoslav states.
The volume sheds light on a diversity of gender embodiments and explores how they have navigated the murky waters of war, capitalism and transphobia while forging a niche for themselves within the regional and transnational LGBTQ movements.
By unleashing the knowledge concentrated in trans lives, this book not only resists trans erasures in Eastern Europe, but also underscores the potential for survival, self-transformation, and engagement in politically challenging circumstances.
Written by an interdisciplinary collective of authors, this powerful book documents the largely unknown histories and politics of trans lives, activisms and culture across the post-Yugoslav states.
The volume sheds light on a diversity of gender embodiments and explores how they have navigated the murky waters of war, capitalism and transphobia while forging a niche for themselves within the regional and transnational LGBTQ movements.
By unleashing the knowledge concentrated in trans lives, this book not only resists trans erasures in Eastern Europe, but also underscores the potential for survival, self-transformation, and engagement in politically challenging circumstances.
Destabilising the notion of ‘firsts’ when LGBTIQ+ history remains largely unknown or forgotten, this chapter grapples with the emergence of trans narratives in Kosovar media, first during the Yugoslav period and later in post-independence Kosovo. Contradicting both local and regional reports of ‘the first public case’ of a Kosovar to seek the formal recognition of their gender confirmation in 2019, the chapter traces back the first media report of a Kosovar person to undergo gender confirmation surgery back to 1978. Using discursive analysis of media reports and semi-structured interviews, this chapter provides a short chronicle of public accounts of trans experience in Kosovo and critical interventions where facts and lived experience diverge from public accounts. Focusing on the personal accounts of three trans people who came out publicly and some that even transitioned in the public eye, the chapter also provides an insight into the intersectional character of lived trans experience, as well as pointing towards the urgent need to produce knowledge about queer lives and history as a form of epistemic justice.
This chapter sets the stage for the volume by providing insights into the ways in which the intensification of trans-related activist engagement has manifested itself in the politically dynamic post-Yugoslav region. We start by entwining our biographical positionalities with major conceptual instruments of contemporary transnational trans studies to both account for the processes that brought us together and carve a niche for our book in Eastern European social sciences and humanities and, in particular, feminist research and queer and trans studies. We then outline the most important political developments through which trans activisms across the region have gained visibility and emancipated themselves from the more generic LGBT initiatives, also shedding a new light on trans lives and artistic endeavours. This has opened a field of political contention that both encompasses and goes beyond activist circles. As we introduce the central arguments of the ensuing chapters, we reflect upon the challenges of conceptual translation within a global economy of knowledge that centralises the Global North and especially Anglo-American trans studies. Facing an intellectual and political scene in which understanding global social relations becomes important for taking trans intellectual work forward, we argue in favour of transnationally informed, but locally embedded and intersectionally sensitive, empirical analysis.
