Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence

Global Responses, Local Practices

Jennifer R. Wies, Hillary J. Haldane

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781498509046
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Psychology
• Index: Social Sciences

Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices addresses the gaps in theory, methods, and practices that are currently used to engage the problem of gender-based violence. This book complements the work carried out in the legal, human services, and health fields by demonstrating how a focus on local issues and responses can better inform a collaborative global response to the problem of gender-based violence. With chapters covering Africa, Asia, Latin and North America, and Oceania, the volume illustrates the various ways scholars, practitioners, frontline workers, and policy makers can work together to end violence in their local communities. The chapters in this volume provide ample evidence that top-down responses to violence have been inadequate, and that solutions are available when the local historical, political, and social context is taken into consideration. Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence contains useful insights that, when combined with the efforts of other disciplines, offer solutions to the problem of gender-based violence.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Return to the Local
• Ethnographic Intimacies
• Multi-Scalar Responses to Gender-Based Violence
• Critical Challenges in the Anthropology of Gender-Based Violence
• Avenues for Change
• References
• Index
• About the Contributors