The Routledge International Handbook of Gender-Based Violence Research

The Routledge International Handbook of Gender-Based Violence Research equips researchers, educators and policymakers with the practical tools and critical reflections needed to navigate the complexities of GBV research, from conceptualisation and fieldwork to dissemination and impact.

Carolina Borda-Niño-Wildman is Head of Research, Development, and Innovation at the National Health Service for Scotland's Ayrshire & Arran region. She is a medical anthropologist, political scientist, and Butoh dancer, dedicated to studying the political economy of violence(s), the intersection of gender, class and ethnicity, and identity politics in Latin America and Europe.

Introduction. Gender-Based-Violence Research: An overview PART I: Project formulation 1. Neurotypical-white women do not open doors: a new approach to methodology and the violence among women in academia 2. Designing research into non-typical gender-based domestic violence 3. Breaking the silence, building a narrative: exploring sexual harassment from a feminist collaborative perspective 4. To Be ... Feminist ... or Not to Be; the theoretical challenges of researching gender-based violence from a feminist perspective 5. Three challenges for the analysis of gender-based violence in digital spaces PART II: Ethics 6. Feminist ethics and methods in gender-based violence research: connecting theory and practice 7. Classroom as the field: Reflections and challenges on relational ethics while engaging with students as teachers and mentors 8. Beyond a Naive Enquiry into Intimate Partner Femicide: Challenges, Dilemmas, and Opportunities in the Study of Perpetrators 9. When Information Becomes Performance: Ethical Considerations for Using Media in GBV Research 10. Meso-Ethical Considerations in conducting Intimate Partner Violence Research PART III: Methodologies Section 1: Qualitative Designs 11. Methodological Approaches and Ethical Challenges in Researching Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse 12. The importance of in-depth interviews with practitioners in researching gender-based violence 13. Problematisation as method: Deliberating the 'reasonable person/woman' standard in anti-sexual harassment policies Section 2: Quantitative Designs 14. Intimate partner violence. Advances and methodological and analytical challenges of the National Demographic and Health Surveys 15. Contributions of surveys to the study of gender-based violence in religious settings Section 3: Arts-based Designs 16. 'he hits me and it's hard' .... Using creative methods in schools to research gender-based violence 17. The Sounds of Violence: Using music elicitation to enquire about childhood experiences of domestic violence and abuse 18. Dancing Through Learning: Butoh and Teaching Research on Gender-Based Violence PART IV: Fieldwork and Writing-Up 19. Researching Violence against Women in São Paulo, Brazil: Gendered Fear of Violence and Crime as a Methodological Constraint 20. 'GBV is not one thing:' Reflections from long term fieldwork engagements in Kenya on how researchers' and participants' concepts of violence change 21. Addressing the Overlap of Multiple Forms of Victimisation: The Case of Transphobic Hate Crime as a Form of Gender-Based Violence 22. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Reflexivity: The application of social theory to explore dynamics of concealment and complicity in health research