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

博士论文研究：反复发生暴力侵害妇女行为背景下的脆弱性和复原力

• 批准号: 2016999
• 负责人: Lynn Stephen
• 金额: $ 2.51万
• 依托单位: University of Oregon Eugene
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-15 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2016999&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Vulnerability; Resilience

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.

该项目通过审查最近一系列政策改革的影响，调查边缘化妇女中暴力侵害妇女的行为。它询问，当暴力侵害妇女行为被证明是系统性的并抵制改革时，最有可能获得、利用和参与哪些法律的和其他支助机制。这种混合方法的研究提供了一个机会，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实证、科学数据收集和分析方法的培训外，这项研究的结果还将被广泛传播，对利益相关者、政策制定者和社会科学家产生实际影响，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，但在边缘化社区暴力侵害妇女行为的发生率仍然越来越高，并将探讨哪些变量助长了系统性的暴力威胁。 这一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攸关方合作，包括社会服务和法律的专业人员、州一级的官僚以及边缘化的幸存者和社区利益攸关方，以确定政策、社区反暴力举措和边缘化妇女的法律的结果之间的关系。数据收集将使用人种学方法，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。研究结果将有助于对具体的社会文化，经济和地缘政治条件的新见解，这些条件既支持又限制了有效，公平的改革。此外，这项研究将加强暴力，脆弱性和性别公民的理论，促进社会科学的理解，边缘化社区如何表现出弹性和组织在反复发生的暴力的情况下。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得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的支持。