Book chapter
Gender-based Violence: Case Studies from the Global South
The Emerald Handbook of Feminism, Criminology and Social Change, pp.373-394
Emerald Studies in Criminology, Feminism and Social Change, Emerald Publishing Limited
2020
Abstract
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a global policy issue with significant social, economic and personal consequences. The burden of VAWGs is distributed unequally, with rates of gender violence significantly higher in low- to middle-income countries of the Global South. Yet the bulk of global research on gender violence is based on the experiences of urban communities in high-income English-speaking countries mainly from the Global North. This body of research typically takes the experience of women from Anglophone countries as the norm from which to theorise and frame theories and research of gender-based violence. This chapter problematises theories that the privilege women in the Global North as the empirical referents of ‘everyday violence’ (Carrington et al., 2016). At the same time, however, it is important to resist homogenising the violence experienced by women across diverse societies in the Global South as oppressed subaltern Southern. This binary discourse exaggerates the differences and obfuscates the similarities of VAWG across Northern and Southern borders and reproduces images of women in the Global South as unfortunate victims of ‘other’ cultures (Durham, 2015; Narayan, 1997). This chapter contrasts three examples, the policing of family violence in Indigenous communities in Australia; Image-based Abuse in Singapore; and the policing of gender violence in the Pacific as a way of concretising the argument.
Details
- Title
- Gender-based Violence: Case Studies from the Global South
- Authors
- Melissa Bull (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyKerry Carrington (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyLaura Vitis (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Contributors
- Sandra Walklate (Editor) - Monash UniversityKate Fitz-Gibbon (Editor) - Monash UniversityJaneMaree Maher (Editor) - Monash UniversityJude McCulloch (Editor) - Monash University
- Publication details
- The Emerald Handbook of Feminism, Criminology and Social Change, pp.373-394
- Series
- Emerald Studies in Criminology, Feminism and Social Change
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- DOI
- 10.1108/978-1-78769-955-720201030; 10.1108/9781787699557
- ISBN
- 9781787699557; 9781787699571
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99651595302621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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