South Africa's Hidden War: Histories of Sexual Violence from Apartheid to the Present

南非的隐秘战争：从种族隔离至今的性暴力历史

基本信息

批准号：
MR/S033718/1
负责人：
Emily Bridger
金额：
$ 69.78万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FS033718%2F1
关键词：
South Africa Hidden War Histories

项目摘要

Today, South Africa has the highest rate of sexual violence for any country not at war, with an estimated one in three women raped in their lifetime. Despite public outcry and new policy initiatives, understandings of South Africa's rape crisis remain limited due to two main factors: a failure to understand the history sexual violence across the apartheid and post-apartheid periods; and the neglect of women's own voices in research or policy. Addressing these limitations, this project will be the first to historicise sexual violence in South Africa from 1948 to the present. It will do so through an innovative focus on those most affected by this violence yet currently most neglected in research: women and girls. It will explore how African women have conceptualised, experienced, and sought justice against the ubiquitous violence that shapes their day-to-day lives, highlighting how experiences of sexual violence developed and changed over the apartheid and post-apartheid periods. In doing so it will reframe historical and contemporary understandings of sexual violence on a global scale by encouraging a greater emphasis on women's voices and promoting new methodologies for accessing, sharing and incorporating such marginalised voices into research and policy. This project will develop a new multi-disciplinary methodology for studying histories of sexual violence, involving substantial collaboration with local NGOs. By crossing discipline and sectoral boundaries, it will overcome many of the challenges researchers have met in the past. This approach includes oral history and archival research, as well as focus groups with African women from the country's townships. These will be hosted in collaboration with the project partner, the Khulumani Support Group - an organisation committed to helping women voice and seek support for their experiences of sexual violence. These workshops will be conducted in local languages and co-run by women with longstanding reputations in township communities. The project will also work in collaboration with other NGOs in South Africa, including the One in Nine Campaign, Sonke Gender Justice, and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. These collaborations will aid both the research and its future impacts. The focus groups will be beneficial to township women, providing them with a safe space to express a range of experiences and understandings, and giving voice to their needs and demands. Khulumani will also benefit from this research by progressing their new project in empowering women against violence, raising their international profile, and fostering new understandings of the historical roots of women's current vulnerabilities. These impacts will be ensured through the co-creation of best-practice documents, policy briefings, and workshops that will highlight how current development initiatives can best understand and learn from women's own experiences of sexual violence. Public engagement with broader audiences will take place through media dissemination and the digitised archive. Addressing the shortcomings of existing research on sexual violence in South Africa is a matter of urgency in order to recognise the historical developments of the current rape crisis over time, and to incorporate women's own voices into scholarship and development practice. By taking a historical approach and asking questions about women's experiences of violence over time, this project will foster more historically and culturally specific understandings of rape in South Africa - knowledge essential for tackling the country's current crisis in effective ways. In doing so, it will bridge the divides between research, NGOs, and policy makers that have previously hampered attempts to understand or address sexual violence, and highlight the importance of using interdisciplinary methodologies to deliver the UK's development priority of tackling violence against women and girls.

如今，南非的性暴力发生率最高，任何国家都没有战争，据估计，一生中有三分之一的妇女被强奸。尽管公众强烈抗议和新的政策举措，但由于两个主要因素，人们对南非的强奸危机的理解仍然有限：未能理解种族隔离和种族隔离时期的历史暴力；以及在研究或政策中忽略妇女自己的声音。解决这些局限性，该项目将是从1948年到现在的南非历史性性暴力的第一个历史性化性暴力。它将通过创新的关注对受到这种暴力影响的人们的创新关注，目前在研究中最被忽视的人：妇女和女孩。它将探讨非洲妇女如何构思，经历和寻求正义，以应对无处不在的暴力，这种暴力塑造了日常生活，强调了在种族隔离和种族隔离时期的性暴力经历如何发展和改变。这样一来，它将通过鼓励更加强调妇女的声音并促进新方法来访问，共享和将这种边缘化的声音纳入研究和政策，从而在全球范围内重新构架历史和当代对性暴力的理解。该项目将开发一种新的多学科方法，用于研究性暴力历史，涉及与当地非政府组织进行实质性合作。通过跨越纪律和部门边界，它将克服研究人员过去遇到的许多挑战。这种方法包括口述历史和档案研究，以及与来自该国乡镇的非洲妇女的焦点小组。这些将与项目合作伙伴Khulumani支持小组合作主持，该组织致力于帮助妇女发表声音并寻求支持她们的性暴力经历。这些讲习班将以当地语言进行，并由在乡镇社区中长期声誉的妇女共同举办。该项目还将与南非其他非政府组织合作，包括九名运动中的一个，儿子性别正义和暴力与和解研究中心。这些合作将有助于研究及其未来的影响。焦点小组将对乡镇妇女有益，为她们提供一个安全的空间来表达各种经验和理解，并表达其需求和需求。 Khulumani还将通过促进新项目来使妇女免受暴力，提高国际形象，并促进对妇女当前脆弱性历史根源的新理解，从而从这项研究中受益。这些影响将通过共同创建最佳实践文件，政策简介和讲习班来确保这些影响，这些文件将突出当前的发展计划如何最好地理解和学习妇女自身的性暴力经历。通过媒体传播和数字化的档案，将与更广泛的观众参与公众参与。解决南非现有性暴力研究的缺点是要认识到当前强奸危机的历史发展，并将妇女自己的声音纳入奖学金和发展实践的问题。通过采用历史方法并询问有关妇女随着时间的流逝经历的问题，该项目将在历史上和文化上对南非强奸的理解更加繁殖 - 知识对于以有效的方式解决该国当前的危机至关重要。这样一来，它将弥合研究，非政府组织和以前曾阻碍了理解或解决性暴力尝试的决策者之间的鸿沟，并强调了使用跨学科方法论来实现英国发展对妇女和女孩的暴力行为的优先事项的重要性。