Generating new understandings of gender violence for work with young people

Barbara Biglia (URV)

barbara.biglia@urv.cat

Pam Alldred (Brunel)

pam.alldred@brunel.ac.uk

2013

International Congress Gender Violence: Intersectionalities Oati - Gipuzkoa

GAP Work: Improving gender-related violence intervention and referral through youth practitioner training Feminist asociation Public institution Confounded by:

Research of good practics and literature review

800 youth professionals trained.

Comparative analisis of national and UE legal framwork

4 new training courses

Educative project evaluation

Cascade

Whaty's new?
Interseccionality

Informing action with legal analysis

Stricted evaluation process

Homo-lesbo transfobia as GRV

Social construction of GRV

Feminist GRV paradigm

Institutional violence

When concept metter

Confusion in the use of terminology (Violence- Gender -Gender violence or other naming)
VIOLENCE AS A CONSTRUCTED CONCEPT Tautological definition / Reduction to physical force Intentionality of the actions / Menhood experience Braking down social norms/

Exemple gender reducing gender at womenFor the purposes of this

One such effort in 199899, focusing attention on the issue of gender violence, is the "UN Inter-Agency Campaign on Women's Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean" to combat violence against
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Meaning

Signifier

Performative creation of realities

Expression

Violence agaist women /Gender violence Sexist violences / Domestic violence Family violence .

Exemples violence
The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened
or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation. World Health Organization (1996)
The definition used by the World Health Organization, however, defines violence as it relates to the health or well-being of individuals. Certain behaviours such as hitting a spouse may be regarded by some people as acceptable cultural practices, but are considered violent acts with important health implications for the individual.(WHO, 2002)

Gender violences in people mind (media, laws and declaration)

Indicators on domestic violence against women

Council of the European Union 2002

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male perpetrator to end outline text format victims of violence the circle of violence Second Outline
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2. Profile of male
perpetrators 3. Victim support

5. Training of professionals
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violence against Fourth women

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Making invisible many expresion of gender violence

Mass media; Wars; Total institution: Demographic control; Medicalizaction of sexuated body: legislations; Rape; Amenazas etc...

contradictory position operating in the medical sphere, where women can be subject to criticism for having an abortion of a healthy fetus, and yet also censured if they choose not to abort a fetus defined as abnormal (Plows, 2002).

Particularly important for Young people: Gender as violence Heteronormative violence Sexuality control Reproductive control and prevention Sexual freedom or mantarory sexual activities

Polarising and confronting

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Do not question normalised gender power relation

Particularly important for Young people: Illusion of equality Romantic love Is a interpersonal problem Can be solved trought mediation It cannot happen in LGTBQI relation

Victimization and the patronising paradigme

According to several studies cited by the World Health Organization, women who

have been victims of physical or sexual

violence use health care services more often

than those who have not

(International Rescue Committee, 2004)

Individualising and polarising negate social responsabilities

Particularly important for Young people: Pathologising offender He need my help ('nurse sindrome') Pahologising offended Nothing to do with me (I'm a strong girl/ I'm a sensible boy) Is my problem (lonlines) Not asumption of resposability by educators

CRIMINALIZATION to maintain social order

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Governamentability of women bodies and life in order to protect us

No salgas de casa por la noche sola; Controla como te vistes;No frecuentes malas compaas;No te fes de los extraos; Necesitas ms policas para protegerte; Cuidado con la expresin de tus deseos sexuales; Los imigrantes son peligrosos....

Being protected by the state

Gender violence also Physical, sexual and psychological violence perpetrated or condoned by the State, wherever it occurs. (UN, 1993: Article 2 point C). State has to Exercise due diligence to prevent, investigate and, in accordance with national

legislation, punish acts of violence against women,

whether those acts are perpetrated by the State or by

private persons (Article 4 point C)

Multiculturality and states

States should condemn violence against women and should not invoke any custom, tradition or religious consideration to avoid their obligations with respect to its elimination.
Use of women's emancipation rhetoric in order to justify colonialist actions.
It is particularly fashionable for political leaders to profile themselves as the saviours of the poor Muslim girl. Muslim girls and woman with a headscarf are then represented as passive objects or victims, or the very embodiment of the oppression of women.
(Not in our name campain, 2004).

Perpetration of racism

NOT IN OUR NAME!!!

What are the challenges Feminist for GAP Project? GRV

paradigm