Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence

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.

Jennifer R. Wies is associate professor and program director of anthropology at Eastern Kentucky University.
Hillary J. Haldane is associate professor and program director of anthropology at Quinnipiac University.

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
IntroductionReturn to the Local: Lessons for Global Change
Jennifer R. Wies and Hillary J. Haldane
Part I Ethnographic Intimacies
Chapter 1Domestic Violence, Embodiment, and Women's Lives in Northern Vietnam
Lynn Kwiatkowski
Chapter 2 Bureaucratic Bindings: Refugee Resettlement and Intimate Partner Abuse
Elizabeth Wirtz
Part II Multi-Scalar Responses to Gender-Based Violence
Chapter 3 Munted: Rebuilding Community after Disaster
Hillary J. Haldane
Chapter 4 Gender-Based Violence and the State in Guatemala's Genocide and Beyond
M. Gabriela Torres Chapter 5 Prostitution Diversion Programs Structural Violence
Yasmina Katsulis
Part III Critical Challenges in the Anthropology of Gender-Based Violence
Chapter 6 Sex Trafficking of Native Peoples: History, Race, and Law
April D. J. Petillo
Chapter 7 Pa Manyen Fanm Nan Konsa: Understanding Violence against Women afterHaiti's Earthquake
Mark Schuller
Chapter 8 Campus Sexual Violence Policies and Practices: A Holistic and Historical Approach to Research and Practice
Jennifer R. Wies
Part IVAvenues for Change
Chapter 9 "I'm a REAL Father Now!" Using Applied Anthropology to Promote Positive Masculinities to Reduce Family Violence in Northern Uganda
Rebecka Lundgren and Kimberly Ashburn
Chapter 10 Employing Scholar-Activist Anthropology to Counter Gender-Based Violence in Belize
Melissa Beske
Chapter 11 Intimate Partner Violence, Social Change, and Scholar-Activism in Coastal Ecuador
Karin Friederic
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