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

该项目通过审查最近一系列政策改革的影响，调查边缘化妇女中对妇女的暴力行为。它询问，当对妇女的暴力行为被证明是系统性的且难以改革时，最有可能获得、利用和参与哪些法律和其他支持机制。这项混合方法的研究提供了一个机会，可以评估边缘化妇女遭受暴力的日常方式，并就其后果进行谈判，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经验、科学数据收集和分析方法的培训外，本研究的结果将广泛传播，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，但在边缘化社区中，针对妇女的暴力行为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，州一级官僚，以及边缘化幸存者和社区利益相关者，以确定政策，社区反暴力倡议和边缘化妇女的法律结果之间的关系。数据将通过人种学方法、长期参与者观察、半结构化和生活史访谈、社交媒体分析和城市社会地图收集。研究结果将有助于对特定的社会文化、经济和地缘政治条件提供新的见解，这些条件既巩固又限制了实现有效、公平改革的进展。此外，这项研究将加强暴力、脆弱性和性别公民的理论，进一步从社会科学的角度理解边缘化社区如何在反复发生的暴力背景下表现出弹性和组织能力。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识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.