Gender Violence and the Global South

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a global policy issue with significant social, economic and personal consequences. However the burden of violence against women and girls is distributed unequally, with rates of gender violence significantly higher in low to middle income countries of the Global South. Yet the bulk of global research on gender violence is based on the experiences of urban communities in high-income English-speaking countries mainly from the Global North. This thematic panel draws together scholars doing research from the Global South on specific dimensions of gender violence, including technology-facilitated abuse among refugee and migrant woman in Australia, gender violence in the Pacific islands, and the novel role of women’s police stations in Argentina in responding to and preventing gender violence. The aim is not to suggest that feminist research on gender violence from the Global North is less important, simply that this research is limited by empirical referents and theoretical concepts derived from privileged geo-political specificities. The aim of the panel is to bring fresh perspectives that enlarge and compliment analysis of gender violence in feminist criminology.

Sub Unit

• Area IX. Critical Criminology / 68. Cultural Criminology

Division of Special Interest

• Division Session of Interest / Division on Women & Crime

Individual Presentations

• The role of Women's Police Stations in Preventing Gender Violence - Kerry Carrington, Queensland University of Technology; Natacha Victoria Guala, Universidad Nacional del Litorel, Argentina; María Victoria Puyol, Queensland University of Technology

• Technology-Facilitated Abuse among Migrant and Refugee Women: A Qualitative Study - Asher Flynn, Monash University; Nicola Henry, RMIT, Australia

• Policing Gender Violence in the Pacific - Melissa Bull, Queensland University of Technology

• Legal and Social Constructions of Women as the ‘Cultural Other’ in Australian Rape Trials - Rachael Burgin, Monash University

Chair

• Jayne Mooney, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Discussant

• Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University