The concept and the name of Isolating Gender Violence

Ana Vidu,Garazi López De Aguileta,Ramon Flecha,Lidia Puigvert

doi:10.17583/generos.2021.8622

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In December 2020, the Catalan Parliament approved by unanimity the world’s first legislation of the concept of Isolating Gender Violence (IGV); in 2021, several parliaments are developing their own legislations. The elaboration of this concept and later this name has been a long and dialogic process among diverse scientists, policymakers, governments, parliaments, victims, survivors, social organizations and citizens. Since 2016, CREA (Community of Research on Excellence for All) has developed a process of elaborating the concept of IGV oriented to obtain the scientific, policy and social impact required to make a key contribution to overcoming gender violence. This process was simultaneous to the elaboration by the same researchers of the criteria of policy and societal impact of the EU’s scientific programme of research (Horizon Europe). This paper presents this dialogic research conducted to get the concept and the name IGV and the consequences of this concept along scientific, policy and social impact. The results show that the key for getting the name and the impacts of this scientific robust concept has been three of the main characteristics of the present EU research program Horizon Europe: the priority of social impact, the co-creation of knowledge between scientists and citizens and sustainability.

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In December 2020, the Catalan Parliament approved by unanimity the world’s first legislation of the concept of Isolating Gender Violence (IGV); in 2021, several parliaments are developing their own legislations
The concept to protect the ones who protect the direct victims should be referred to all those types of violence. - Participant 2: So, we should clarify in the concept the list of types of gender violence related to the concept. - Participant 3: No, IGV refers to the types of gender violence listed by international organisms and the ones of each country
In a very short time, Isolating Gender Violence will have the very strong and transformative meaning we have developed for years to this programme of research and its policy and social impact. - Participant 6: Do you mean that any word is indifferent to the interactive attribution of the desired meaning? - Participant 5: Almost like this, do you know the origin of “Okay”? - Participant 7: No - Participant 5: In 1839, the Boston Morning Post made a joke writing “all correct” in this way: “Oll Korrect”

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In December 2020, the Catalan Parliament approved by unanimity the world’s first legislation of the concept of Isolating Gender Violence (IGV); in 2021, several parliaments are developing their own legislations. Since 2016, CREA (Community of Research on Excellence for All) has developed a process of elaborating the concept of IGV oriented to obtain the scientific, policy and social impact required to make a key contribution to overcoming gender violence. This process was simultaneous to the elaboration by the same researchers of the criteria of policy and societal impact of the EU’s scientific programme of research (Horizon Europe). Second Order of Sexual Harassment (SOSH), named by Billie Dziech and Linda Weiner in 1990, was used provisionally to describe the concept of IGV, in order to recognize their precursor contribution, to build upon the previous works and to open a wide process of dialogue with all the plurality of voices in order to define the best term, which has been IGV

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