Diversifying practice and policy responses to domestic violence and abuse amidst a shifting gender landscape

在这一奖学金期间拟议的活动旨在最大限度地发挥我的博士研究的社会和学术影响，该研究试图从根本上重新定义管理家庭暴力和虐待(DVA)干预和预防的主要实践和政策范式，以改善DVA受害者幸存者的结果。对暴力侵害妇女行为的规范理解和应对使受害者幸存者(通常为妇女)在处理和减少暴力侵害妇女行为和男子对妇女的暴力方面负有不成比例的责任。这在不同的范围内发生，包括在社会护理环境中。我的幸存者领导的研究使用参与性方法，对来自女性受害者幸存者、女性DVA从业者和参与使用交叉的包容性女权主义框架解决男性暴力问题的男性的数据进行了三角分析。我的研究询问了DVA中和由DVA构成的关于性别和性别关系的主导话语，以便通过更好的预防和干预来改善DVA受害者幸存者的结果。这项研究对主导政策、实践和服务空间的DVA预防、受害者和犯罪话语进行了重新设计。在这一点上，它揭露了‘真实的’受害者的概念的普遍存在，相反，它主张承认受害者-幸存者经历的多样性和复杂性，突出受害者-幸存者对暴力的抵抗，以及主导的DVA叙事以多种方式掩盖了许多受害者-幸存者的经历，特别是那些经历不平等或过着更边缘生活的人(包括非洲黑人、加勒比、亚洲和其他少数群体妇女、跨性别、女同性恋、同性恋和双性恋妇女、从事性工作的妇女、经历贫困和社会经济劣势的妇女，以及非二元人群)。联谊会将提供一个平台，传播我从研究中学到的知识，这对目前关于男子对妇女的暴力行为的公开辩论作出了重大贡献，迫切需要将DVA问题重新定义为一个需要解决的集体社会责任问题。这项研究还干预了关于不平等在受害者幸存者生活中的作用的学术辩论，并对现有关于紧缩的性别、分类和种族主义影响的学术做出了实质性和方法论上的贡献。最后，它促进了越来越多的关于男子参与反暴力侵害妇女行为的社会运动理论的文献，证实了男子参与制止男子暴力的努力的工具价值。因此，它为将男子纳入VAW和DVA预防工作提供了令人信服的女权主义理由，不仅是为了降低患病率，也是为了改善受害者幸存者的结果，特别是在参与儿童社会照料程序时。在这方面，男子被框定为消除对妇女的暴力和虐待以及其他少数群体的同样负责任的主体。这是挑战指责受害者的说法以及追究施暴者责任的努力的一个重要组成部分，从而扩大了以多样化、对性别问题有敏感认识和包容性的方法来处理暴力侵害儿童问题的研究领域。研究金还将提供一个独特的平台，以便在不断变化的性别和政策格局中参与围绕预防基于性别的暴力以及新的《家庭暴力法》(2021年)的新出现的辩论。因此，这是一项及时的研究，与英国VAW领域当前的辩论、政策和实践高度相关。通过与学者、政策制定者、从业人员和有过暴力和虐待经历的人接触，计划中的活动将有助于建立一个强大的、幸存者领导的证据库，用于重塑对DVA的服务、政策和社区反应。

The proposed activities during this fellowship aim to maximise the social and academic impact of my doctoral research, which seeks to radically reconceptualise the dominant practice and policy paradigms governing domestic violence and abuse (DVA) intervention and prevention, in order to improve outcomes for victim-survivors of DVA. Normative understandings and responses to DVA place disproportionate responsibility on victim-survivors (usually women), for addressing and reducing DVA and men's violence towards women. This occurs at various scales, including within social care settings. My survivor-led research uses participatory methods, to elaborate a triangulated analysis of data from women victim-survivors, women DVA practitioners, and men involved in efforts to address men's violence using an intersectional, inclusive-feminist framework. My research interrogates the dominant discourses of gender and gender relations constituted in and by DVA, so that outcomes for victim-survivors of DVA may be improved through better prevention and intervention. The study theorises a reworking of the dominant DVA prevention, victimhood, and perpetration discourses governing policy, practice, and service spaces. In this, it exposes the ubiquity of notions of 'authentic' victimhood, and argues instead for the recognition of the diversity and complexity of the full range of victim-survivor experience, foregrounding victim-survivor resistance to violence and the multiple ways in which the dominant DVA narrative occludes many victim-survivors' experience, particularly those experiencing inequalities or living more marginal lives (including Black African, Caribbean, Asian and other minoritised women, trans, lesbian, queer and bi women, women involved in sex-work, women experiencing poverty and socioeconomic disadvantage, and non-binary people).The fellowship will provide a platform to disseminate the learning from my research, which makes significant contributions to the current public debates regarding men's violence towards women and the urgent need to reconceptualise the issue of DVA as one for which there is a collective social responsibility to address. The research also intervenes in the academic debates regarding the role of inequalities in the lives of victim-survivors and makes substantive and methodological contributions to existing scholarship on the gendered, classed and racialised impacts of austerity. Finally, it contributes to a growing body of literature on social movement theorisations of men's anti-violence against women (VAW) engagement, substantiating the instrumental value of men's participation in efforts to stop men's violence. As such, it offers a compelling feminist rationale for incorporating men in VAW and DVA prevention, not only to reduce prevalence rates but to improve outcomes for victim-survivors, particularly when involved in children's social care proceedings. In this, men are framed as equally responsible subjects for the eradication of violence and abuse against women, and other minoritised groups. This constitutes a crucial component in efforts to challenge victim-blaming narratives, as well as to hold perpetrators of abuse to account, thereby expanding the field of research centred on the diversification of gender-sensitive, inclusive approaches to address VAW.The fellowship will also offer a unique platform to engage with the emerging debates centred on the prevention of gender-based violence amidst a shifting gender and policy landscape, as well as the new Domestic Abuse Act (2021). As such, it is a timely study, highly relevant to current debates, policy, and practice in the UK VAW sphere. Together the planned activities will contribute to the development of a robust, survivor-led evidence base for the reshaping of service, policy, and community responses to DVA, by engaging with academics, policy makers, practitioners, and people with lived experience of violence and abuse.