Researching Gender, Violence and Abuse

Westmarland, Nicole; Bows, Hannah

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“…Subjectivity is the focus of doing autoethnography and yet one does not lose sight of social and cultural contexts, which is in line with the symbolic interactionist paradigm. Autoethnography sheds light on power and gender relations that unravel in such contexts, especially in respect of experiences of gender‐based violence (Westmarland and Bows ). It requires one to pay attention, then, to micro‐level social relations, how they come about, while alluding to macro‐level social structures that shape how a micro‐level social encounter takes place.…”

Section: Methodological Reflectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Haunting of Shame: Autoethnography and the Multivalent Stigma of Being Queer, Muslim, and Single

Javaid

2019

Symbolic Interaction

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Sociology has neglected the terrain of the gay Muslim single as a sociological phenomenon. Produced and managed via meaningful social conduct, the gay Muslim single often holds negative symbolic and cultural worth, one of lacking identification and presence. The stigma of the gay Muslim single is actively reproduced through social and power relations. I examine multiple stigmas and dichotomies by using autoethnography to illustrate the human lived experience of a gay Muslim single, who is silenced, invisibilized, and embodies a social life of “emptiness.” The gay Muslim single, bringing about a “moral panic,” confronts temporal regulations, norms, and values, notably those of heterosexual ones in everyday social life. He is cast as an “outsider,” which reinforces his stigma in everyday social life.

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Section: Methodological Reflectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Haunting of Shame: Autoethnography and the Multivalent Stigma of Being Queer, Muslim, and Single

Javaid

2019

Symbolic Interaction

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“…Such print material included training manuals, monthly newsletters, annual reports, and newspaper articles. Feminist scholarship has cited this type of mixed-method research as an advantage to the breadth of data collection, allowing for a view of institutional processes that cannot be ascertained by interviews alone (Westmarland & Bows, 2018).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The “Bait and Switch” of Sexual Assault Response: Expanded Carceral Power at a Rape Crisis Center

Whalley

2019

Affilia

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Rape crisis centers (RCCs) were established during the mainstream anti-rape movement in the United States during the 1970s. In the decades that followed, RCCs began to depend on governmental grants to stay open, shifting the antagonistic relationship that existed between many RCCs and state structures. Previous research has conceptualized this RCC institutionalization as a reluctant concession requisite to the continuation of victim services and the anti-rape movement. This article draws upon three years of ethnographic research and 40 interviews at a United States RCC to illustrate how institutionalization facilitated one RCC’s complicity in the expansion of the carceral state. I propose the transformation of this RCC illuminates a sexual assault response “bait and switch” that serves carceral agendas. I reach this conclusion using data drawn from three themes: (1) the outsourcing of the hotline and conversion to criminal-legal victim services, (2) criminal-legal integration that did not expand the influence of the RCC, and (3) the facilitation of the criminalization of victims through a process of net widening. Building from previous research, these findings document the result of criminal-legal integration at one RCC: the expansion of the carceral state into the center, to the detriment of victims and efforts to end sexual assault.

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“…Trauma affects sexual violence researchers in differing and unpredictable ways, including feeling guilty, angry, stigmatized, emotional, fearful, sad and unhappy (Coles et al., 2014). Westmarland and Bows (2019) argue that for researchers who immerse themselves in sexual violence research, it can become difficult, both emotionally and spiritually; for example, it can be emotional, traumatic and upsetting to get close to your data since they can trigger prior experiences of hurt. There is no one else around when you are getting close to your writing you might fall apart when no one is watching and when you are faced with stories of human rights violation, ones that remind you of your own experiences of bodily violation where someone invaded your private space, contaminated your integrity, and took away your sense of safety and freedom.…”

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Reconciling an irreconcilable past: Sexuality, autoethnography, and reflecting on the stigmatization of the ‘unspoken’

Javaid

2019

Sexualities

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I demonstrate the ways in which constructions of knowledge about sexual violence metaphorically and symbolically transpose stigma onto me for researching a stigmatized topic. In every human interaction, we all run the risk of stigma. I was stigmatized for revealing my association with the topic of sexual violence. In this article, I detail certain encounters of running into this stigma, using autoethnography. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s poetic writings in this piece, to name a problem as a problem is to become a problem; the problems I highlight in my life turn me into a problem. I provide some of the implications that developed from highlighting such problems, such as suffering disbelieving and hostile attitudes and responses, rape threats, and derogatory comments from the wider society. I offer suggestions for other gender and sexuality writers as to how to reduce or manage stigma from looming large, for to not do so, one could be susceptible to ongoing abuse, derogatory and degrading comments, and, in some cases, threats of – and actual – violence and abuse.

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Researching Gender, Violence and Abuse

Cited by 25 publications

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The Haunting of Shame: Autoethnography and the Multivalent Stigma of Being Queer, Muslim, and Single

The Haunting of Shame: Autoethnography and the Multivalent Stigma of Being Queer, Muslim, and Single

The “Bait and Switch” of Sexual Assault Response: Expanded Carceral Power at a Rape Crisis Center

Reconciling an irreconcilable past: Sexuality, autoethnography, and reflecting on the stigmatization of the ‘unspoken’

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