Globalising Feminist Criminology: Innovations in Preventing Gendered Violence from the Global South

• In Event: Globalising and Democratising Criminology

Abstract

Feminist criminology has placed gender at the centre of criminological theorising, after almost a century of neglect or misrepresentation within this field of knowledge. This achievement is to be applauded. However like other social sciences its core assumptions and empirical studies tend to refer to the mainly English speaking countries of the northern hemisphere. In this global economy of knowledge feminist theory has reproduced structures of marginality and centrality, between what Connell calls the metropole and the periphery (522) – the global north and global south (526). Southern theories, subaltern studies, post-colonialism, intersectionality and black feminism have done much to redress this structured inequality in the global economy of knowledge. In this paper, we seek to add to this body of feminist critical scholarship by examining issues of justice (or rather injustice) of importance to feminist criminologists from the global south. Meda Chesney-Lind will explore women’s resistances to the Trump era from the global south. Kerry Carrington ponders why the prevention of gendered violence has been modelled on the plight of women in the global north, yet women in the global south experience much higher rates of gendered violence.

Authors

• Meda Chesney-Lind, University of Hawaii

• Kerry Carrington, Queensland University of Technology