Decolonising Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Higher Education: Interventions in Theory, Policy and Practice

高等教育中的性暴力和基于性别的暴力（SGBV）是一个迫切需要关注的全球性问题。这项拟议的研究将以预防和改变文化的思想为核心，通过关注制度实践和全球南方女权主义斗争的经验教训，将高等教育中对性暴力的理解去殖民化。它将通过一个以经验为基础、方法创新和理论为依据的研究项目，对高等教育中的性暴力问题提出新的、包容的、以幸存者为中心的理解。这项研究将在理论、政策和实践的所有三个层面上发展交叉和跨学科的方法，以应对当代的重大挑战。缺乏与性暴力相关的报告机制和政策框架，更大的性别歧视、种族主义和同性恋恐惧症文化导致受害者指责，“荡妇羞辱”和对幸存者的不信任，以及缺乏支持结构是导致高等教育内部暴力的一些问题。人们通常不认为高等教育是一个暴力场所，也不认为自己是压迫的代理人。它的等级性质产生了有时可见，有时隐藏的权力动态，这些权力动态压迫某些少数群体，同时特权其他少数群体。因此，在高等教育中重新思考性别暴力不仅需要承认这些权力动态和由此产生的暴力，还需要在这些背景下对理论、政策和实践的想象方式进行彻底改革。高等教育中与性暴力有关的重要问题有：(1)缺乏关于现有暴力的普遍程度和性质以及现有支持机制的数据；(2)缺乏对来自全球南方的实证研究的关注；(3)缺乏关于结构性暴力与高等教育机构的建立、延续和转型过程相互交织的知识；(4)机构、学者和决策者之间缺乏知识交流；不同国家的高等教育机构之间的知识转移几乎可以忽略不计。本研究利用五个具体国家的案例研究（南非、巴西、尼日利亚、智利和澳大利亚），这些案例研究在殖民和帝国遗产的历史上具有对比性，并展示了今天制度压迫和集体行动的有趣交集。本研究旨在解决上述知识差距，将女权主义制度主义、性别研究和公共卫生的理论和方法结合在一起。这四个问题需要长期的研究，涉及广泛的学科。因此，FLF是本研究的最佳途径，因为它具有跨学科的性质，并且持续时间长。这个雄心勃勃且具有挑战性的研究项目不仅将在所有三个学科中探索新的议程，而且还将弥合高等教育中性别歧视领域的理论和政策差距。

Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) within Higher Education (HE) is a global problem that requires urgent attention. Keeping ideas of prevention and change of culture at its core, the proposed research will decolonise understandings of SGBV in HE by focusing on lessons from institutional practices and feminist struggles in the Global South. It will present new, inclusive and survivor-centred understandings of SGBV in HE through a programme of research that is empirically grounded, methodologically innovative and theoretically informed. This research will develop an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach in all three levels of theory, policy and practice for addressing a critical contemporary challenge. Lack of reporting mechanisms and policy frameworks related to SGBV, larger cultures of sexism, racism and homophobia leading to victim blaming, 'slut shaming' and mistrust of survivors, and absence of support structures are some of the issues that structure violence within HE. HE is not commonly recognised as a site of violence nor does it recognise itself as an agent of oppression. Its hierarchical nature gives rise to sometimes visible and other times hidden power dynamics which oppress certain minority bodies while privileging others. Hence, rethinking SGBV within HE not only requires an acknowledgement of these power dynamics and resultant violence, but a complete overhaul in the way theory, policy and practices are imagined in these contexts. The important issues pertaining to SGBV in HE are: (i) the lack of data on the prevalence and nature of existing violence and available support mechanisms, (ii) lack of focus on empirical research from the global South, (iii) lack of knowledge about the entwinement of structural violence with the process of establishment, continuance and transformation of HE institutions, (iv) the lack of knowledge exchange between institutions, academics and policy makers, with almost a negligible transfer of knowledge between HE institutions in different countries. Using five country-specific case studies (South Africa, Brazil, Nigeria, Chile and Australia) that are comparative in their histories of colonial and imperial legacies, and display interesting intersections of institutional repression and collective action today, this research aims to address the aforementioned gaps in knowledge, bringing together theories and methodologies from feminist institutionalism, gender studies and public health. These four issues require prolonged research, involving a broad range of disciplines. Thus, the FLF is the best pathway for this study, given its interdisciplinary nature combined with its lengthy duration. This ambitious and challenging research project will not only explore new agendas in all three disciplines but also bridge the gap in theory and policy in the area of SGBV in HE.