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Call for Contributions: Gender-Based Violence and Front-Line/Local
Workers
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Volume Abstract: To Be Titled Upon Receipt of Chapter Abstracts
Hillary J. Haldane (University of California- Santa Barbara) and
Jennifer R. Wies (Xavier University)
As our attention to structural violence and inequalities
continues to grow, our understandings of local level violence and the
systems responsive to such violence must also develop. Through
theorizing the “local” and placing the local at the center of inquiry,
this volume examines ethnographic examples of the front-line political
economies of gender-based violence service provision. By exploring
the situations of front line workers and local sites of service
provision, this text reorients the analysis of gender-based violence
to the interface between the state and the victims: the front-line
workers. By recentering the analysis to the local, we hope to
revitalize our studies of front line workers in the gender-based
violence field.
This volume contains three sections that represent three
fields of service provision to gender-based violence victims. The
first is the medical and/or public health arena, where gender-based
violence victims and front line workers direct service providers
interact at the level of physician-patient, medical advocate-victim,
and mental health counselor-client. The second point of contact is
located in the legal and criminal justice system, where gender-based
violence victims encounter lawyers, legal advocates, and law
enforcement personnel. The final intersection of analysis is that of
the education system. Education systems produce gender-based violence
workers in the classroom, via conferences trainings, and through
orientation into organizations working to provide services to victims
of gender-based violence. In addition, the intersection between the
education system and gender-based violence workers serves as a site of
examining the creation of public educatio
n and awareness regarding gender-based violence and allows an analysis
of ways that gender-based violence issues are framed for public
consumption.
The significance of this volume collection is that it brings
together scholars in a conversation that might not necessarily be in
dialogue with each other. In this volume scholars connect their work
to macro theories of structural violence and illuminate the
disjuncture between transnational theory and local practice. This
framework mimics a larger framework of front line gender-based
violence work that is conducted at multiple sites of service. As
front line workers strive to coordinate services to victims of gender-
based violence, the scholars in this volume follow their example and
transcend disciplinary artificial boundaries to mirror what is
occurring “on the ground.”
Beginning with an introduction that reviews the
Anthropological work focusing on gender-based violence and front line
service provision, the volume presents four essays within each of the
three sections. Each section contains a summary of the essays and
highlights the possibilities for theoretical and practical
collaborations. The concluding chapter demonstrates the theoretical
and applied benefits of an analysis of structural violence from the
vantage point of front-line labor.
Please submit a note of interest as soon as possible to Jennifer Wies,
PhD (Xavier University) at wiesj at xavier.edu. Abstract drafts will be
due by year's end.
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Jennifer R. Wies, PhD
Director, Xavier University Women's Center
3800 Victory Parkway
Cincinnati OH 45207
513-745-3737
513-745-3999 (fax)
wiesj at xavier.edu
The Xavier University Women's Center is located at 1415 Dana Avenue,
ML #7780.
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