Adolescent Parenthoods and Culture in Latin America

拉丁美洲的青少年父母和文化

• 批准号: AH/W007479/1
• 负责人: Rebecca Ogden
• 金额: $ 24.7万
• 依托单位: University of Kent
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW007479%2F1
• 关键词: Adolescent; Parenthoods; Culture; Latin; America

This project investigates adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) and young parenthood in Mexico, Cuba and Colombia through three intersecting questions: (i) how does cultural production reflect and regulate understandings of ASRH and young parenthood? (ii) how do cultural representations work with or against ASRH policy and initiatives by governments and NGOs? (iii) how do such interventions correspond to the needs and lived realities of adolescents, especially young parents? Each line of enquiry will expand our understanding of teenage parenthood and improve the impact of future interventions. Adolescent pregnancy is increasing in many Latin American countries, with significant negative social, economic and health-related consequences. Young mothers have often been the victims of sexual violence, and are also vulnerable to forms of obstetric violence. Teenage parenthood obstructs access to education, hinders social mobility and entrenches poverty, making teen parents and their babies more vulnerable to disease and death. Such outcomes are worse still in contexts marked by gendered violence, marginalisation and precarity. Despite broader advances in maternal health, in Mexico, Cuba and Colombia, adolescent pregnancy remains stubbornly high, especially within the local settings (Morelos and Granma) that this project foregrounds. Statistical data dominates existing research in this area, obscuring a much needed understanding of the social and cultural factors that influence sexual behaviour, fertility choices (including early marriage), and access to ASRH services including abortion. During adolescence, as social norms become ingrained, culture takes on greater personal relevance. Many studies see education as key to preventing unwanted pregnancies. However, each of the three contexts are paradoxically characterised by atypically high investments in ASRH resources and education. Research has not satisfactorily explained why both unplanned and planned adolescent pregnancies continue to rise in the region. This project engages a novel approach in investigating the limited success of existing policy and interventions. It focuses on the intersection of cultural production, policy, and lived experiences. First, the PI will examine the powerful but under-researched role that cultural production plays in reflecting and shaping ASRH, by analysing representations of adolescent sexuality, sexual violence, pregnancy and parenthood in contemporary digital and popular culture (television, film, vlogging, social media), and by interviewing cultural producers. Second, through a systematic review of current ASRH policy and initiatives in the three contexts, the PI will consider how these cultural representations reinforce or disrupt state and NGO interventions. Third, the project will analyse disjunctures between policy approaches to ASRH and their lived realities in local settings, through two creative workshops for young parents co-hosted by local organisations in Morelos (Mexico) and Granma (Cuba), which will engage cultural expression as a participatory method for both research and impact. In order to foster an interdisciplinary, comparative and collaborative approach to these questions, the project will also bring the three contexts in dialogue through the development of an international research network. The network will directly engage local and national policymakers, regional development actors, NGOs, arts organisations, and media outlets. The project seeks to expand knowledge in terms of how ASRH is shaped by culture, and also positively influence future ASRH policy and initiatives, enhance public awareness of ASRH issues, and have a social impact on young people and their communities. Findings will be shared via conference presentations, a website, a podcast episode, a briefing document, a methodological toolkit, blog posts, and academic publications.

该项目通过三个相互交叉的问题调查墨西哥、古巴和哥伦比亚的青少年性健康和生殖健康以及年轻父母问题：㈠文化生产如何反映和调节对青少年性健康和生殖健康以及年轻父母问题的理解？(ii)文化代表性如何与政府和非政府组织的ASRH政策和倡议相配合或相抵触？(iii)这些干预措施如何符合青少年，特别是年轻父母的需要和生活现实？每一条调查线都将扩大我们对青少年父母的理解，并提高未来干预措施的影响。 在许多拉丁美洲国家，少女怀孕现象日益增多，对社会、经济和健康产生了严重的负面影响。年轻母亲往往是性暴力的受害者，也容易遭受各种形式的产科暴力。未成年父母阻碍了受教育的机会，阻碍了社会流动性，加深了贫困，使未成年父母及其婴儿更容易受到疾病和死亡的伤害。在以性别暴力、边缘化和不稳定为特征的环境中，这种结果更糟。尽管墨西哥、古巴和哥伦比亚在孕产妇保健方面取得了更广泛的进展，但少女怀孕率仍然居高不下，特别是在该项目所强调的当地环境（莫雷洛斯和格拉玛）。统计数据主导了这一领域的现有研究，掩盖了对影响性行为、生育选择（包括早婚）和获得包括堕胎在内的ASRH服务的社会和文化因素的迫切需要的了解。在青少年时期，随着社会规范变得根深蒂固，文化与个人的相关性更大。许多研究认为教育是防止意外怀孕的关键。然而，这三种情况中的每一种都具有矛盾的特点，即对ASRH资源和教育的投资都非常高。研究未能令人满意地解释为什么该区域青少年意外怀孕和计划怀孕的情况继续增加。 该项目采用了一种新的方法来调查现有政策和干预措施的有限成功。它侧重于文化生产，政策和生活经验的交叉点。首先，PI将通过分析当代数字和流行文化（电视，电影，vlogging，社交媒体）中青少年性行为，性暴力，怀孕和父母身份的表现，并通过采访文化生产者，来研究文化生产在反映和塑造ASRH方面发挥的强大但研究不足的作用。第二，通过系统地审查目前的ASRH政策和倡议在三个方面，PI将考虑这些文化代表如何加强或破坏国家和非政府组织的干预。第三，该项目将通过由莫雷洛斯（墨西哥）和格拉玛（古巴）的地方组织共同主办的两个年轻父母创意讲习班，分析青少年性健康和生殖健康政策方法与当地生活现实之间的脱节，这将使文化表达成为研究和影响的参与性方法。 为了促进对这些问题采取跨学科、比较和协作的办法，该项目还将通过发展一个国际研究网络，使这三个方面进行对话。该网络将直接吸引地方和国家政策制定者、区域发展参与者、非政府组织、艺术组织和媒体。该项目旨在扩大对文化如何塑造ASRH的了解，并积极影响未来的ASRH政策和举措，提高公众对ASRH问题的认识，并对年轻人及其社区产生社会影响。研究结果将通过会议演示文稿，网站，播客插曲，简报文件，方法工具包，博客文章和学术出版物分享。