Between Despair and Hope: Women and Violence in Contemporary Guyana

Trotz, D. Alissa

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“…A focus on gender roles also revealed that adolescent boys understand the use of violence to be different based on race. This is not to imply that race does not factor into defining gender roles for adolescent girls, because Indian and African women are discursively constituted by racial stereotypes in a Caribbean context (Beckles, 2003;Kempadoo, 2003;Trotz, 2003Trotz, , 2004. Rather, for participants in this study, the discussion on femininity and gender roles interestingly converged around sexual respectability across race.…”

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“…Our results also indicate that without questioning how the understanding of race informs ideas of masculinity, the acceptability of violence may continue because it is naturalized as a characteristic based on race. Furthermore, further research is needed to understand how adolescent girls' experiences of violence are mediated in a society that remains polarized by racialization (Trotz, 2004).…”

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“…Stueve and O'Donnell (2008) and Savasuk-Lukston (2019) address racial discrimination and how it impacts dating violence in American society. The context of race has been considered in predominantly American studies (Savasuk-Luxton et al, 2018;Storer et al, 2020;Stueve & O'Donnell, 2008) and in adult Guyanese populations with regard to gender and violence (Trotz, 2003(Trotz, , 2004, but there is minimal examination of race, gender roles, and violence among Guyanese adolescent populations.…”

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Sex as Boys’ Fame, But Girls’ Shame: Adversarial Adolescent Gender Roles and Gender-based Violence in Guyana

Rodney

Gastaldo

Trotz

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J Interpers Violence

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Gender-based violence (GBV) is a significant issue for youth in Guyana, particularly among young women. Yet, discussions about sex, dating, and violence rarely occur at the community level. To understand the heightened risk for GBV with youth in Guyana, we utilized a critical qualitative design to explore adolescent dating violence with adolescents (14–16 years old), parents, and school officials in a public secondary school in Guyana. In total, 36 racially and religiously diverse participants from low to middle-income households participated in focus groups ( n = 30) and interviews ( n = 6). Discussions centered on dating in adolescence; community awareness of dating violence; gender, racialization, and class in relation to dating violence; and dating violence prevention in schools and family settings. Our results revealed that heteronormative, adversarial gender roles in Guyana are enacted in adolescent relationships in ways that contribute to violence. Two important factors emerged in relation to femininity: female respectability related to sexuality; and the relationship between clothing, sexuality, and social class. Masculinity for adolescent boys was centered on reproducing normative assumptions about femininity and explaining the use of violence through pathologizing race. Participants were also asked to identify gender roles that adolescent boys and girls should embody in relationships, which revealed possibilities for overcoming adversarial roles in relationships. We propose that adolescent GBV prevention initiatives consider long-standing and deeply embedded ideas within gender norms that are connected to sexuality, class, and race. Without accounting for these systemic factors, GBV prevention initiatives and programs may inadvertently perpetuate traditional definitions of masculinity and femininity that contribute to violence.

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Sex as Boys’ Fame, But Girls’ Shame: Adversarial Adolescent Gender Roles and Gender-based Violence in Guyana

Rodney

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Trotz

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J Interpers Violence

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“…Nas décadas imediatas à Rebelião de Berbice, a massiva entre indo-guianeses e afro-guianenses resultou em conflitos campais, que vitimaram centenas de pessoas. A animosidade entre os dois grupos é marcada até hoje (ver, dentre outros, Hintzen, 1989;Smith, 1995;Trotz, 2003;Williams, 1991).…”

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Espíritos, história e colonialismo na Guiana

Mello

2021

Rev. antropol.

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Em diálogo com proposições recentes em torno da antropologia da história, neste artigo abordo como espíritos de colonizadores holandeses na Guiana, antiga Guiana Britânica, atuam como agentes, atores e narradores do processo histórico. Argumento que espíritos participam da formulação, (re)criação e circulação de conhecimentos, fatos e experiências associados, pelos espíritos e pelos humanos, ao período colonial da Guiana.

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“…There is the 'narco-violence' of the illegal drug trade. Legacies of colonial Afro-Guyanese slavery and Indo-Guyanese indentured servitude include deep-seated racial and political tensions encouraging racialized violence (Trotz 2004;Gibson 2006). There is police violence.…”

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Pushing the boundaries of our understanding of disability and violence: voices from the Global South (Guyana)

Chouinard

2012

Disability & Society

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Our knowledge about disabled people's lives is largely based on research in the Global North. This article considers disability and violence in the Global South, specifically in Guyana. It aims to push conceptual and empirical boundaries of our understanding of violence and disability. Conceptually, it argues for a social model materialist theory of disability attuned to how material barriers to disabled people's inclusion in society and space are reproduced through processes of exclusion unfolding across geographic scales ranging from the global, to the inter-personal and intra-personal. It argues that Lacanian psycho-analytic theory provides a complimentary lens for understanding why people engage in acts that construct disabled people as 'deserving' of violence. Empirically, the article broadens our understanding of disability and violence by focusing on poverty, violence as a cause of impairment and disability, and disabled women's and men's experiences of violence in a majority world context.

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Between Despair and Hope: Women and Violence in Contemporary Guyana

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Sex as Boys’ Fame, But Girls’ Shame: Adversarial Adolescent Gender Roles and Gender-based Violence in Guyana

Sex as Boys’ Fame, But Girls’ Shame: Adversarial Adolescent Gender Roles and Gender-based Violence in Guyana

Espíritos, história e colonialismo na Guiana

Pushing the boundaries of our understanding of disability and violence: voices from the Global South (Guyana)

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