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This volume offers practical, detailed guidance and case studies on
how to avoid exacerbating inequalities while researching
gender-based violence and other related issues in Africa. Wartime
violence and its aftermath present numerous practical, ethical, and
political challenges that are especially acute for researchers
working on gender-based and sexual violence. Drawing upon applied
examples from across the African continent, this volume features
unique contributions from researchers and practitioners with
decades of experience developing research partnerships, designing
and undertaking fieldwork, asking sensitive questions, negotiating
access, collecting and evaluating information, and validating
results. These are all endeavors that also raise pressing ethical
questions, especially in relation to retraumatization, social
stigma, and even payment of participants. Ethical and
methodological questions cannot be separated from political and
institutional considerations. Systems of privilege and
marginalization cannot be wished away, so they need to be both
interrogated and contested. This is where precedents and power
relations established under colonialism and imperialism take center
stage. Europeans have been extracting valuable resources from the
African continent for centuries. Research into gender-based
violence risks being yet another extractive industry. There are
times when committed individuals can make valuable contributions to
a more equitable future, but funding streams, knowledge
hierarchies, and institutional positions continue to have powerful
effects. Accordingly, the contributors to this volume also
concentrate upon the layered effects of power and position,
relationships between researchers, organizations, and communities,
and the political economy of knowledge production; this brings into
focus questions about how and why information gets generated, for
which kinds of audiences, and for whose benefit.
This volume offers practical, detailed guidance and case studies on
how to avoid exacerbating inequalities while researching
gender-based violence and other related issues in Africa. Wartime
violence and its aftermath present numerous practical, ethical, and
political challenges that are especially acute for researchers
working on gender-based and sexual violence. Drawing upon applied
examples from across the African continent, this volume features
unique contributions from researchers and practitioners with
decades of experience developing research partnerships, designing
and undertaking fieldwork, asking sensitive questions, negotiating
access, collecting and evaluating information, and validating
results. These are all endeavors that also raise pressing ethical
questions, especially in relation to retraumatization, social
stigma, and even payment of participants. Ethical and
methodological questions cannot be separated from political and
institutional considerations. Systems of privilege and
marginalization cannot be wished away, so they need to be both
interrogated and contested. This is where precedents and power
relations established under colonialism and imperialism take center
stage. Europeans have been extracting valuable resources from the
African continent for centuries. Research into gender-based
violence risks being yet another extractive industry. There are
times when committed individuals can make valuable contributions to
a more equitable future, but funding streams, knowledge
hierarchies, and institutional positions continue to have powerful
effects. Accordingly, the contributors to this volume also
concentrate upon the layered effects of power and position,
relationships between researchers, organizations, and communities,
and the political economy of knowledge production; this brings into
focus questions about how and why information gets generated, for
which kinds of audiences, and for whose benefit.
With forced marriage, as with so many human rights issues, the
sensationalized hides the mundane, and oversimplified popular
discourses miss the range of experiences. In sub-Saharan Africa,
the relationship between coercion and consent in marriage is a
complex one that has changed over time and place, rendering
impossible any single interpretation or explanation. The legal
experts, anthropologists, historians, and development workers
contributing to Marriage by Force? focus on the role that marriage
plays in the mobilization of labor, the accumulation of wealth, and
domination versus dependency. They also address the crucial
slippage between marriages and other forms of gendered violence,
bondage, slavery, and servile status. Only by examining variations
in practices from a multitude of perspectives can we properly
contextualize the problem and its consequences. And while early and
forced marriages have been on the human rights agenda for decades,
there is today an unprecedented level of international attention to
the issue, thus making the coherent, multifaceted approach of
Marriage by Force? even more necessary.
This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully
explore how the history and iconography of slavery has been invoked
to support a series of government interventions, activist projects,
legal instruments, and rhetorical performances. However
well-intentioned these interventions might be, they nonetheless
remain subject to a host of limitations and complications. Recent
efforts to combat contemporary slavery are too often
sensationalist, self-serving, and superficial and, therefore, end
up failing the crucial test of speaking truth to power. The widely
held notion that antislavery is one of those rare issues that
"transcends" politics or ideology is only sustainable because the
underlying issues at stake have been constructed and demarcated in
a way that minimizes direct challenges to dominant political and
economic interests. This must change. By providing an original
approach to the underlying issues at stake, Contemporary Slavery
will help readers understand the political practices that have been
concealed beneath the popular rhetoric and establishes new
conversations between scholars of slavery and trafficking and
scholars of human rights and social movements. Contributors: Jean
Allain, Jonathan Blagbrough, Roy Brooks, Annie Bunting, Austin
Choi-Fitzpatrick, Andrew Crane, Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, Fuyuki
Kurasawa, Benjamin Lawrance, Joel Quirk, and Darshan Vigneswaran
With forced marriage, as with so many human rights issues, the
sensationalized hides the mundane, and oversimplified popular
discourses miss the range of experiences. In sub-Saharan Africa,
the relationship between coercion and consent in marriage is a
complex one that has changed over time and place, rendering
impossible any single interpretation or explanation. The legal
experts, anthropologists, historians, and development workers
contributing to Marriage by Force? focus on the role that marriage
plays in the mobilization of labor, the accumulation of wealth, and
domination versus dependency. They also address the crucial
slippage between marriages and other forms of gendered violence,
bondage, slavery, and servile status. Only by examining variations
in practices from a multitude of perspectives can we properly
contextualize the problem and its consequences. And while early and
forced marriages have been on the human rights agenda for decades,
there is today an unprecedented level of international attention to
the issue, thus making the coherent, multifaceted approach of
Marriage by Force? even more necessary.
Contemporary slavery has emerged as a source of fascination and a
spur to political mobilization. This volume brings together experts
to carefully explore how the language of slavery has been invoked
to support a series of government interventions, activist projects,
legal instruments, and rhetorical and visual performances. However
well-intentioned these interventions might be, they remain subject
to a host of limitations and complications. Recent efforts to
combat slavery are too often sensationalist, self-serving, and
superficial and end up failing the test of speaking truth to power.
Bringing about lasting change will require direct challenges to
dominant political and economic interests.
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