Adolescent Parenthoods and Culture in Latin America

拉丁美洲的青少年父母和文化

• 批准号: AH/W007479/2
• 负责人: Rebecca Ogden
• 金额: $ 19.37万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 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: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW007479%2F2
• 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（ASRH）和年轻父母：(i)文化生产如何反映和调节对ASRH和年轻父母的理解？（ii）文化表现形式如何配合或反对政府和非政府组织的ASRH政策和倡议？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？每一项调查都将扩大我们对青少年父母的理解，并改善未来干预措施的影响。在许多拉丁美洲国家，少女怀孕正在增加，造成严重的负面社会、经济和健康后果。年轻母亲往往是性暴力的受害者，也容易受到各种形式的产科暴力的伤害。青少年为人父母阻碍了接受教育的机会，阻碍了社会流动，加剧了贫困，使青少年父母及其婴儿更容易患病和死亡。在性别暴力、边缘化和不稳定的背景下，这种结果更糟。尽管在孕产妇保健方面取得了广泛进展，但在墨西哥、古巴和哥伦比亚，青少年怀孕率仍然居高不下，特别是在本项目所强调的地方（莫雷洛斯州和格拉玛）。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ASRH服务（包括堕胎）的社会和文化因素的亟需的理解。在青少年时期，随着社会规范变得根深蒂固，文化对个人产生了更大的影响。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资源和教育的非典型高投资。研究并没有令人满意地解释为什么该地区的青少年意外怀孕和计划怀孕都在继续上升。本项目采用一种新颖的方法来调查现有政策和干预措施的有限成功。它关注文化生产、政策和生活经验的交集。首先，PI将通过分析当代数字和流行文化（电视、电影、视频博客、社交媒体）中青少年性行为、性暴力、怀孕和为人父母的表现，并通过采访文化制作人，研究文化生产在反映和塑造ASRH方面发挥的强大但尚未得到充分研究的作用。其次，通过对三个背景下当前ASRH政策和举措的系统回顾，PI将考虑这些文化表征如何加强或破坏国家和非政府组织的干预。第三，该项目将通过两个由莫雷洛斯州（墨西哥）和格拉玛（古巴）当地组织共同主办的青年父母创意研讨会，分析针对ASRH的政策方法与他们在当地环境中的生活现实之间的脱节，该研讨会将把文化表达作为一种参与研究和影响的方法。为了促进对这些问题采取跨学科、比较和合作的方法，该项目还将通过建立一个国际研究网络，使这三种情况进行对话。该网络将直接与地方和国家政策制定者、区域发展行动者、非政府组织、艺术组织和媒体联系。该项目旨在扩大关于文化如何塑造ASRH的知识，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、网站、播客、简报文件、方法工具包、博客文章和学术出版物进行分享。