Producing "Domestic Violence": Gendered Suffering, Women's Rights, and the State in Ecuador

研究生卡琳·弗里德里克，由琳达B博士指导。绿色组织将研究国家和非政府组织渗透到以前与世隔绝的地区与厄瓜多尔沿海偏远地区亲密伴侣暴力之间的关系。 政府机构和非政府组织最近都开展了反对家庭暴力的运动。越来越多的国家和非政府组织的倡议激发了公民和人权的新话语。研究者询问这些话语是否影响人们对国家在妇女权利和家庭暴力方面的作用的看法，以及在什么情况下人们可能会选择根据对自己作为权利承担者的新理解采取行动。为了回答这些问题，研究者将在两个社区进行比较民族志实地考察，这两个社区在国家和非政府组织赞助的倡议中具有不同的参与程度。她将进行正式和非正式采访，举行焦点小组讨论，并采访国家机构和非政府组织的官员。将利用历史研究和基于机构的访谈来确定国家和非政府组织参与的形式，改变有关家庭暴力的法律和政策，并审查基本的人权论述。 这项为期一年的研究将建立在对该区域两性关系和家庭健康的广泛初步研究的基础上。总之，将采用混合方法加深对家庭暴力各方面的理解，查明人权意识随着时间的推移产生的影响，并在全国范围内总结当地的暴力经历。这项研究很重要，因为亲密伴侣暴力是世界范围内日益严重的问题。考虑到全世界受亲密伴侣暴力困扰的地方的发展和现代化速度很高，了解人权意识在资源贫乏地区的影响对于促进学术研究和制定适当的应对措施至关重要。 因此，这项研究将有助于人类学文献的家庭暴力和理论的地方影响的国家机构，并有助于显着的社会科学家的教育。

Graduate student Karin Friederic, supervised by Dr. Linda B. Green, will undertake research on the relationship between state and NGO penetration into a formerly isolated area and intimate partner violence in a remote area of coastal Ecuador. Both government agencies and NGOs have undertaken recent campaigns against domestic violence. The growing presence of state and non-governmental (NGO) initiatives has inspired new discourses of citizenship and human rights. The researcher asks if these discourses affect people's perception of the state's role regarding women's rights and family violence and under what circumstances people may choose to act upon new understandings of themselves as rights-bearers.To answer these questions, the researcher will conduct comparative ethnographic fieldwork in two communities with different levels of participation in state and NGO-sponsored initiatives. She will conduct formal and informal interviews, hold focus groups, and interview officials in state agencies and NGOS. Historical research and institution-based interviews will be utilized to determine forms of state and NGO involvement, changing laws and policies regarding domestic violence, and examine underlying human rights discourses. This yearlong study will build upon extensive preliminary research on gender relations and family health in the region . In all, mixed methods will be utilized to deepen understanding of the dimensions of family violence, to identify effects of human rights awareness over time, and to situate local experiences of violence in a national context. The research is important because intimate partner violence is a growing problem worldwide. Considering high rates of development and modernization in places worldwide beset by intimate partner violence, understanding the effects of human rights awareness in resource-poor areas is critical to advancing scholarship and designing appropriate responses. Thus, this research will contribute to the anthropological literature on family violence and theory about local effects of state institutions, and contribute significantly to the education of a social scientist.