Intersectional Consciousness in Studies of Violence: Feminist Psychological Perspectives

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Experiences of childhood violence and violence perpetration and the association with inequitable gender norms and violence justification have been extensively studied in non-humanitarian settings, and among older populations. However, there is a gap in understanding these associations within humanitarian contexts, particularly from the perspective of children and youth. We used data from the Uganda Humanitarian Violence Against Children and Youth Survey, a representative, cross-sectional household survey of 2,265 children and youth aged 13–24 years living in refugee settlements in Uganda. We explored associations between endorsement of inequitable gender norms, intimate partner violence (IPV) justification, and experiences of violence and/or perpetration of violence in childhood. Experience of any childhood violence was significantly associated with an increase in endorsement of inequitable gender norms among females and IPV justification among males. This pattern was similar for 18-24-year-olds. Among 13-17-year-olds, IPV justification was significantly associated with experience of any childhood violence among females and perpetration of violence among males. Our findings suggest the need for gender-transformative violence prevention interventions that start early in the life course, and that address inequitable gender socialisation and power relations. School-based violence prevention interventions, community-based approaches to form gender equitable attitudes among adolescents, parenting interventions, and interventions with children and adolescents that had experienced childhood violence have shown considerable success in other settings, and could be adapted to humanitarian settlements.

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This study investigates how prospective language teachers develop critical intersectional awareness through narrative inquiry and autoethnographic practices within a university course context. Drawing on Crenshaw’s intersectionality theory (1989, 1991) and language teacher identity research, the investigation examines how pre-service teachers navigate multiple, overlapping systems of privilege and marginalisation while constructing their professional identities. The research employed a case study design involving 20 prospective English language teachers at a German university, most from working-class or migrant backgrounds. Data collection occurred through a semester-long course intervention combining narrative inquiry and autoethnographic reflection, analysed using Barkhuizen’s (2008) three-dimensional narrative space framework and positioning theory. Three representative cases illustrate varying levels of intersectional consciousness development: from explicit theoretical integration to emergent awareness. Results reveal that the practices facilitate movement between experiential storytelling and critical analytical engagement with identity construction processes. All participants demonstrated connections between their intersectional positioning and emerging pedagogical commitments to inclusive education and social justice. The study contributes methodological insights for critical language teacher education by demonstrating how structured self-reflection can promote intersectional awareness regardless of initial theoretical familiarity. Implications suggest that teacher education programmes should provide multiple entry points for developing intersectional consciousness while maintaining goals of critical awareness development.

Design historians frequently find their interest in a particular subject prompted by archival materials, or begin their research with collections of designed objects supported by online databases. While these are the raw materials, the primary sources of the design historian’s work, they are also deserving of attention in their own right. This Virtual Special Issue is comprised of twelve articles drawn from past issues of the Journal of Design History’s Archives, Collections and Curatorship section, drawing out key themes and highlighting ongoing dialogues between academic design historians, curators, librarians and archivists. This Introduction seeks to contextualise these within the wider discipline of design history, and to draw connections to scholarship beyond the Journal of Design History itself. Articles under the first heading look at archives, while articles under the second consider collections of objects. The third section turns to the related challenges of presenting design historical research to public audiences. This Virtual Special issue also offers a reminder that as both the processes and products of design move into the digital sphere, it is pertinent to ask what this means for the ways in which design historians, students, and the general public will engage with design history in future.

This article aims to understand experience-building of intimate partner violence around power relations in the life stories of women attending the Secretariat of Women in the city of Villavicencio (Colombia) looking for primary psychological care. The research which gave rise to this paper was developed based on the qualitative method and following a hermeneutical approach to biographical-narrative. The paradigm of complexity along with the systemic-narrative approach, constructivism, and social constructionism were the guides to develop this study, considering they are based on the fact that language is a tool for enabling the construction of participants’ experience of violence and life stories. Categories addressed in this work are: intimate partner violence, power relations, and narrative construction. Among our main findings it can be highlighted that power dynamics experienced in different contexts by participating women favored the emergence of intimate partner violence, showing that such dynamics exemplify and reinforce expressions of the patriarchal culture in which male supremacy over women becomes a reality.

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Design historians generally avoid extended self-reflection or discussion of how they conduct research. Typically, they use historical research methods, yet design historians have also used methods borrowed from art history, cultural and literary studies, anthropology, sociology or other social sciences. This Virtual Special Issue, comprising articles drawn from past issues of the Journal of Design History, addresses the state of design history’s methodology. While few authors in the Journal have focused specifically on the topic of methodology, their implicit adoption of an eclectic variety of research methods over the past thirty years is revealing. This Introduction seeks to contextualize a collection of twelve articles within a brief overview of methodologies in history, art history and design history. The articles are then linked to scholarship beyond the Journal of Design History, and the final section presents additional methodological possibilities for design historians.

Ecofeminism and Structural Violence

Feminist psychology is a subfield of psychology concerned with gender, sex categories, and sexualities. It includes both academic researchers and practitioners (i.e., psychotherapists and counselors). Feminist scholarship is often fueled by a commitment to social justice. Feminist psychologists have challenged cultural beliefs about innate female nature, and also invidious stereotypes about various groups of women. It has brought to light the lives and experiences of women and girls across the social spectrum. Feminists have also examined the part that gender plays in the distribution of power in society. In clinical psychology, feminists have insisted on the connection between psychological suffering and social context, with some focusing on experiences of sexual abuse and intimate violence.

ABSTRACTThis article uses the lens of intersectionality to analyze secondary data gathered by international human rights organizations investigating women’s experiences of sexual violence near Barrick Gold’s mine in the Porgera valley of Papua New Guinea. This case study provides an example of how an intersectional framework can be useful to feminist researchers exploring North–South power relationships in the context of resource extraction, by helping us ask nuanced questions about the benefits and costs of resource extraction in the Global South. In this article, intersectionality helps to trace the transnational relationships of power that shape women’s experiences of violence in Porgera, and Barrick Gold’s remediation policy for survivors. Intersectionality serves as a useful tool to map the systems of power at work in Porgera and to make visible the structural violence implicit in the relationship between Canada and Papua New Guinea created by Barrick Gold’s operation.

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This paper examines how women's experiences of conflict and transition differ from that of men because of inherent gendered power relations and that, as a result, women's experiences of violence and needs for justice have until recent times largely been ignored. It speaks to gender justice as the protection of human rights based on gender equality and explores two such tenets: the acknowledgement of and seeking of justice for women's experiences of sexual violence in conflict situations; and the securing of increased representation of women in policy- and decision-making bodies on post-conflict issues and transitional justice mechanisms. The paper then goes beyond these tenets to discuss the specific needs of women within post-conflict systems that are male-orientated, and examines the assumptions of the transitional justice field from a gendered perspective. An examination of truth commissions is used to highlight the advances that have been made in securing redress for gender-based crimes, as well as the limitations. In particular, the article highlights the need to move beyond a focus on individual incidents of sexual violence in conflict to addressing the context of inequality which facilitate these violations as well as the continuum of violence from conflict to post-conflict which becomes visible through a gendered analysis. The paper concludes by suggesting a range of policy recommendations for gender justice and equality in the transitional justice field.KeywordsSexual ViolenceRome StatuteTransitional JusticeGender PerspectiveTruth CommissionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

The current chapter will allow a better understanding of refugee women's situation in global-forced migration. It also offers a comprehensive account of the ways in which refugee women's experiences of violence are shaped by gendered relations and structures. Furthermore, the chapter will analyze the interactions between the gender identity formation of men and women, the context of escape, displacement and asylum seeking, and the experience or manifestation of gender-based violence against refugee women. Finally, it also intends to illustrate how structural and symbolic violence and power relations cooperate to shape experiences of violence for refugee women and how it can influence and perpetuate interpersonal violence. In this sense, several studies are presented that demonstrate, on one hand, how gender relations are affected by escape, displacement, and asylum, and how they can create different practices of structural and symbolic violence; and, on the other hand, draw attention to the current lack of gender-specific analysis of the problem of asylum and refugees.

The current chapter will allow a better understanding of refugee women's situation in global-forced migration. It also offers a comprehensive account of the ways in which refugee women's experiences of violence are shaped by gendered relations and structures. Furthermore, the chapter will analyze the interactions between the gender identity formation of men and women, the context of escape, displacement and asylum seeking, and the experience or manifestation of gender-based violence against refugee women. Finally, it also intends to illustrate how structural and symbolic violence and power relations cooperate to shape experiences of violence for refugee women and how it can influence and perpetuate interpersonal violence. In this sense, several studies are presented that demonstrate, on one hand, how gender relations are affected by escape, displacement, and asylum, and how they can create different practices of structural and symbolic violence; and, on the other hand, draw attention to the current lack of gender-specific analysis of the problem of asylum and refugees.