Applying Anthropology to Gender-based Violence: Global Response, Local Practices, Part I - Wies

Applying Anthropology to Gender-based Violence: Global Response, Local Practices, Part I 

CHAIRS: WIES, Jennifer R. (EKU) and HALDANE, Hillary J. (Quinnipiac U)

BESKE, Melissa A. (Palmer Trinity Sch) Employing Scholar-Activism to Counter Intimate Partner Violence in Belize   FRIEDERIC, Karin (WFU) Resurrecting the “Macho”: Interventions in Gender Based Violence in Rural Ecuador  WIRTZ, Elizabeth (Purdue U) Putting ‘Gender’ back into Gender-Based Violence: Gendered Structural Violence against Refugee Men as a Catalyst for Violence against Women WIES, Jennifer R. (EKU) Structural Violence, Gender-Based Violence, and Future Directions for Applied Anthropology

 

ABSTRACT:

WIES, Jennifer R. (EKU) and HALDANE, Hillary J. (Quinnipiac U) Applying Anthropology to Gender-based Violence Global Response, Local Practices, Part I. These panels focus on the current state of gender-based violence studies in the discipline of anthropology by examining three main areas: the contribution of a gender-based violence focus on the discipline; the current trends in gender-based violence studies; and recommendations for the future direction of gender-based violence in anthropology.  The panelists will discuss their own research on genderbased violence with particular attention to applied outcomes, and reflect on pathways towards more engaged and holistic approaches to gender-based violence prevention and intervention. Many of the panelists will discuss the lacunae in the field, and challenge certain assumptions that have restrained theorizing gender-based violence to date. 

 

Session took place in Vancouver, B.C. Canada at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 29 - April 2, 2016.