Homophobic and transphobic violence against youth: The Jamaican context

Smith, Delores E.

doi:10.1080/02673843.2017.1336106

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“…El Caribe en general es una zona de un fuerte componente homo y lesbofóbico, incluso institucionalizado: todos los países americanos que criminalizan las orientaciones sexuales y las identidades de género no heteronormativas son de esta región (Carroll & Mendos, 2017). En Jamaica, uno de los casos más documentados, existe una fuerte legislación patriarcal, debida a la fuerte influencia de la iglesia y de la abogacía antihomosexual, que hace que el 93 % de la población considere a la homosexualidad como un pecado (Smith, 2018). En el 2010, en esa isla caribeña había una prevalencia del 40.2 % de cantidad de víctimas de acoso escolar en general, en la etapa comprendida entre los 13 y 17 años (Vikneswaran, Idayu, Halim, Norfazilah, & Hanizah, 2018); aunque, según Smith (2018), no hay datos al respecto, puede presumirse que es muy alto el porcentaje del cual sea homofóbico.…”

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“…En Jamaica, uno de los casos más documentados, existe una fuerte legislación patriarcal, debida a la fuerte influencia de la iglesia y de la abogacía antihomosexual, que hace que el 93 % de la población considere a la homosexualidad como un pecado (Smith, 2018). En el 2010, en esa isla caribeña había una prevalencia del 40.2 % de cantidad de víctimas de acoso escolar en general, en la etapa comprendida entre los 13 y 17 años (Vikneswaran, Idayu, Halim, Norfazilah, & Hanizah, 2018); aunque, según Smith (2018), no hay datos al respecto, puede presumirse que es muy alto el porcentaje del cual sea homofóbico. Esto daría fundamento para plantearse la pregunta de cómo una legislación homofóbica potencia la existencia del acoso homo-lesbofóbico.…”

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Acoso homo-lesbofóbico y educación preuniversitaria en Cuba: estudio de caso

Marrero

2019

Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv

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El objetivo de esta investigación fue realizar un estudio de caso situacional sobre el acoso homo-lesbofóbico en la educación preuniversitaria en Cuba, a partir del testimonio de tres personas que estudiaron en diferentes Institutos Preuniversitarios Vocacionales de Ciencias Exactas (IPVCE), tomadas como muestra de máxima variación. Se llevó a cabo una serie de entrevistas semiestructuradas que arrojaron como resultado que estos espacios de educación interna resultan propicios para el ejercicio del acoso basado en la presunción de una orientación sexual diferente. El personal docente no parece preparado para enfrentar estos episodios. Las secuelas en los participantes, víctimas o no, son graves. Quede este estudio exploratorio como primer paso para futuras profundizaciones.

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Acoso homo-lesbofóbico y educación preuniversitaria en Cuba: estudio de caso

Marrero

2019

Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv

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“…For instance, research conducted in Latin America, North America, Europe, and Australia, focused on occurrences of homophobia in the context of schools, emphasizes that children and adolescents receive their school marks in the short, medium, and long terms through the incidence of anxiety, personality disorders, and chronic depression [ 163 , 165 ], all of which can be exacerbated by such discrimination as homophobia. This issue is also a concern in Jamaican society, regarded by some as among the most homophobic and transphobic societies worldwide, constituting an endemic condition, a public health problem associated with family rejection, juvenile detention, and sexual abuse [ 166 , 167 ].…”

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Thirty Years of Human Rights Study in the Web of Science Database (1990–2020)

Severo

Furstenau

Sott

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The study of human rights (HR) is vital in order to enhance the development of human beings, but this field of study still needs to be better depicted and understood because violations of its core principles still frequently occur worldwide. In this study, our goal was to perform a bibliometric performance and network analysis (BPNA) to investigate the strategic themes, thematic evolution structure, and trends of HR found in the Web of Science (WoS) database from 1990 to June 2020. To do this, we included 25,542 articles in the SciMAT software for bibliometric analysis. The strategic diagram produced shows 23 themes, 12 of which are motor themes, the most important of which are discussed in this article. The thematic evolution structure presented the 21 most relevant themes of the 2011–2020 period. Our findings show that HR research is directly related to health issues, such as mental health, HIV, and reproductive health. We believe that the presented results and HR panorama presented have the potential to be used as a basis on which researchers in future works may enhance their decision making related to this field of study.

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“…Kingston's downtown area is divided further into neighborhoods affiliated with either the People's National Party (PNP) or the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP), a legacy of decades of partypolitical antagonism. In the decades following independence in 1962, both parties cultivated a violent system of political clientelism known as "garrison politics," which transformed downtown Kingston's low-income neighborhoods into fiercely defended politically homogenous enclaves (Sives 2010). 8 In fiction, film, and music dealing with Kingston's socio-spatial stratification, the city's gullies are never neutral-the material connections between urban spaces and populations that they encourage or inhibit have a strong social and symbolic significance.…”

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Imagining Infrastructure in Urban Jamaica

Jaffe

Evans

2021

GeoHumanities

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This article presents a preliminary outline of what an infrastructural humanities might involve. We ask how the established body of work in the geohumanities, including literary geography and related fields, might incorporate the infrastructural turn that has been emerging in geography and anthropology. Studying literary and cultural imaginings of infrastructure, we suggest, extends considerations of spatiality by emphasizing how spatial connections and disconnections are constructed through material and technological means. In seeking to demonstrate the potential of attending to the imagination of infrastructure, we focus our analysis on one specific case: the infrastructure of gullies in Kingston, Jamaica. Kingston's gullies-an extensive system of open drains meant to quickly channel rainwater to the city's harbor-occupy an important if largely unexamined space in the Jamaican capital's urban imaginary. In this article, we read the gully not just as a specific spatial imaginary, but as a form of infrastructure. How are Kingston's gullies imagined in Jamaican popular music, literature, and visual culture? How do these forms of cultural production convey and evoke infrastructure's aesthetic and affective dimensions? How do writers, musicians, and filmmakers engage with infrastructure both to assess urban dis/connections, and to reimagine these relations otherwise? We address these questions across a range of cultural texts to illustrate how a direct engagement with infrastructure might extend work on spatiality by highlighting the cultural politics of materiality and technology.

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Homophobic and transphobic violence against youth: The Jamaican context

Cited by 58 publications

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Acoso homo-lesbofóbico y educación preuniversitaria en Cuba: estudio de caso

Acoso homo-lesbofóbico y educación preuniversitaria en Cuba: estudio de caso

Thirty Years of Human Rights Study in the Web of Science Database (1990–2020)

Imagining Infrastructure in Urban Jamaica

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