Doctoral Dissertation Research: Vulnerability and Resilience in Contexts of Recurring Violence Against Women

该项目通过审查近期一系列政策改革的影响，调查边缘化妇女中针对妇女的暴力行为。它询问当暴力侵害妇女行为被证明是系统性的且抵制改革时，最有可能利用、利用和参与哪些法律和其他支持机制。这项混合方法研究提供了一个机会来评估边缘化妇女遭受暴力的日常方式并协商其后果，这对于评估自上而下的政策模式的可能性和局限性至关重要。除了支持对研究生和本科生进行实证、科学数据收集和分析方法的培训外，这项研究的结果将得到广泛传播，对利益相关者、政策制定者和社会科学家具有实际意义，并提出具体的政策建议。这项研究将探讨为什么尽管实施了全面的政策改革，边缘化社区中针对妇女的暴力发生率仍然越来越高，并将探讨哪些变量导致了系统性暴力威胁。 这个分析丰富的案例将使研究人员能够与一系列地方政府和非政府利益相关者合作，包括社会服务和法律专业人员、州级官僚以及边缘化幸存者和社区利益相关者，以确定政策、社区反暴力举措和边缘化妇女的法律结果之间的关系。将使用人种学方法、长期参与观察、半结构化和生活史访谈、社交媒体分析和城市社会地图来收集数据。研究结果将对特定的社会文化、经济和地缘政治条件提供新的见解，这些条件既支撑又限制了有效、公平改革的进展。此外，这项研究将增强暴力、脆弱性和性别公民权理论，进一步加深社会科学对边缘化社区如何表现弹性以及如何在经常发生暴力的情况下组织起来的理解。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project investigates violence against women among marginalized women through an examination of the impacts of a series of recent policy reforms. It asks what legal and other support mechanisms are most likely accessed, utilized, and engaged with when violence against women proves to be systemic and resistant to reform. This mixed-methods study provides an opportunity to assess the everyday ways in which marginalized women experience violence and negotiate its after-effects, which is essential to evaluating the possibilities and limitations of top-down policy models. In addition to supporting the training of graduate and undergraduate student in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, findings from this research will be widely disseminated, with practical implications for stakeholders, policymakers, and social scientists, as well as concrete policy recommendations. This research will examine why, despite the implementation of sweeping policy reforms, increasingly high rates of violence against women continue to exist in marginalized communities and will explore what variables contribute to systemic threats of violence. This analytically rich case will permit the researcher to work with a range of local governmental and non-governmental stakeholders, including social service and legal professionals, state level bureaucrats, as well as marginalized survivors and community stakeholders to determine the relationship between policy, community anti-violence initiatives, and legal outcomes among marginalized women. Data will be collected using ethnographic methods, long-term participant observation, semi-structured and life-history interviews, social media analysis, and urban social mapping. The results of the research will contribute new insight into the specific sociocultural, economic, and geopolitical conditions that both undergird and restrict advances towards effective, equitable reforms. In addition, this research will enhance theories of violence, vulnerability, and gendered citizenship, furthering social scientific understandings of how marginalized communities' manifest resilience and organize in contexts of recurring violence.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.