Application of Intersectional Analysis to Data on Domestic Violence Against Aboriginal Women Living in Remote Communities in the Province of Quebec

Abstract

This article discusses the theoretical and analytical intersectionality approach, focusing on its application to an analysis of empirical data obtained from qualitative research into domestic violence against

The Efficacy of a Health Promotion Intervention for Indigenous Women: Reclaiming Our Spirits

“…Colonization has been proposed as the leading explanation for the high rates of interpersonal violence experienced in Indigenous communities ( Brassard, Montminy, Bergeron, & Sosa-Sanchez, 2015 ; Brownridge et al, 2017 ; Burnette, 2016 ; Finfgeld-Connett, 2015 ; Kuokkanen, 2015 ; Kwan, 2015 ). These studies illustrate that colonization has eroded Indigenous ways of living and destabilized large proportions of the population through racism, oppression, and loss of resources, autonomy, and culture.…”

A Longitudinal Analysis of Disability-Related Interpersonal Violence and Some Implications for Violence Prevention Work

“…To this end, disability-related and public-health policy formulation and implementation should place a stronger emphasis on antidiscrimination work and violence prevention by taking into consideration intricately complex interplays of dynamics that give rise to violent behaviors against disabled individuals. These violent behaviors have a genealogy and are imbued by ideological presuppositions and prejudices that need to be addressed and mitigated (Bassard, Montminy, Bergeron, Sosa-Sanchez, 2015; Goodley & Runswick-Cole, 2011). For instance, measuring disability discrimination should be at the epicenter of social analyses aimed at understanding and explaining links between violence and disability (Cea D’Ancona, 2017), while discussing implications for policy formulation and implementation.…”

“…The implementation of an intersectionality-based violence prevention program focuses on developing and implementing public-health and related policies aimed at dismantling the vicious circle of polyvictimization that is experienced by disabled individuals (Bassard et al, 2015; Busche, Scambor, & Stuve, 2012). Interdisciplinary policy interventions from health, counseling, nursing, social services, child care should be supplemented by policy interventions at the macro level (the wider social context and global socioeconomic developments; Raffo et al, 2009).…”

“…The biannual progress reports, which according to Article 35 are expected to be submitted to the Committee by each State Party documenting the measures taken to give effect to their obligations under the present Convention, should provide evidence-based information on the ways in which State Parties have facilitated the formulation and implementation of public health and other related policies aimed at challenging the multitude and cumulative forms of historical, ideological, and discursive systems of social domination and inequality that contribute to the reproduction and sometimes social legitimization and normalization of violence against people with disabilities (Bassard et al, 2015; Busche et al, 2012). Only in this way can the rhetorical proclamations of the Convention become enacted practices aimed at addressing the mutually reinforcing effects of the symbolic and physical violence experienced by individuals with disabilities.…”

Exploring Fatal and Non-Fatal Violence Against Parents: Challenging the Orthodoxy of Abused Adolescent Perpetrators

“…Instead, we might look to how other forms of domestic violence have been theorized to identify ways of moving forward on this. For example, taking an intersectional approach (see Crenshaw, 1991) to conceptualising IPV has been found to be helpful in recognizing how the experiences and consequences of particular oppressions, such as violence in the home, need to be understood as the product of not only gender and generation but also age, dis/ability, "race," social class, and cultural context (e.g., Brassard, Montminy, Bergeron, & Sosa-Sanchez, 2015;O'Neal & Beckman, 2016). Furthermore, poverty, child care responsibilities, housing policy, employment practices, friendship patterns, and police attitudes are all shaped by multiple and intersecting forms of oppression and will shape how different parents experience and respond to violence from their offspring.…”