Producing "Domestic Violence": Gendered Suffering, Women's Rights, and the State in Ecuador

制造“家庭暴力”：性别苦难、妇女权利和厄瓜多尔国家

• 批准号: 0650384
• 负责人: Linda Green
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-05-01 至 2008-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0650384&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Producing; Domestic; Violence; Gendered; Suffering

Graduate student Karin Friederic, supervised by Dr. Linda B. Green, will undertake research on the relationship between state and NGO penetration into a formerly isolated area and intimate partner violence in a remote area of coastal Ecuador. Both government agencies and NGOs have undertaken recent campaigns against domestic violence. The growing presence of state and non-governmental (NGO) initiatives has inspired new discourses of citizenship and human rights. The researcher asks if these discourses affect people's perception of the state's role regarding women's rights and family violence and under what circumstances people may choose to act upon new understandings of themselves as rights-bearers.To answer these questions, the researcher will conduct comparative ethnographic fieldwork in two communities with different levels of participation in state and NGO-sponsored initiatives. She will conduct formal and informal interviews, hold focus groups, and interview officials in state agencies and NGOS. Historical research and institution-based interviews will be utilized to determine forms of state and NGO involvement, changing laws and policies regarding domestic violence, and examine underlying human rights discourses. This yearlong study will build upon extensive preliminary research on gender relations and family health in the region . In all, mixed methods will be utilized to deepen understanding of the dimensions of family violence, to identify effects of human rights awareness over time, and to situate local experiences of violence in a national context. The research is important because intimate partner violence is a growing problem worldwide. Considering high rates of development and modernization in places worldwide beset by intimate partner violence, understanding the effects of human rights awareness in resource-poor areas is critical to advancing scholarship and designing appropriate responses. Thus, this research will contribute to the anthropological literature on family violence and theory about local effects of state institutions, and contribute significantly to the education of a social scientist.

由琳达·B·格林（Linda B. 政府机构和非政府组织都进行了最近针对家庭暴力的运动。国家和非政府（NGO）倡议的日益增长激发了公民身份和人权的新论述。研究人员询问这些话语是否会影响人们对国家在妇女权利和家庭暴力方面的作用的看法，以及在什么情况下，人们可能会选择以对自己的权利者的新理解采取行动。要回答这些问题，研究人员将在州和NGO参与的两个社区中在两个社区中进行比较的民族志实地研究，该问题在州立大学和NGO参与者中具有不同的参与。她将在州机构和非政府组织中进行正式和非正式的访谈，举行焦点小组以及采访官员。历史研究和基于机构的访谈将用于确定国家和非政府组织参与的形式，不断变化的有关家庭暴力的法律和政策，并审查基本的人权话语。 今年一年的研究将基于有关该地区性别关系和家庭健康的广泛初步研究。总的来说，混合的方法将被用来加深对家庭暴力的维度的理解，以确定人权意识的影响，并在国家背景下将当地的暴力经历定位。这项研究很重要，因为亲密的伴侣暴力是全球日益严重的问题。考虑到全世界受到亲密伴侣暴力的困扰的高度发展和现代化的速度，了解人权意识在资源贫乏地区的影响对于促进奖学金和设计适当的回应至关重要。 因此，这项研究将有助于有关家庭暴力的人类学文献和有关国家机构当地影响的理论，并为社会科学家的教育做出了重大贡献。