Gender Violence &amp; Human Rights

doi:10.22459/gvhr.12.2016

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“…These imposed hierarchies-between the universal and the particular-create specific challenges on the ground for the task of 'translating' and 'transplanting' the international human rights regime. Similar to earlier movements concerned with social transformation, anthropologists have been particularly well placed to undertake historically informed ethnographic analysis of these new rights-based movements to understand the history of a globalising Western Pacific (Biersack, Jolly & Macintyre, 2016;Hildson et al, 2000).…”

Section: Local Responses To Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Unequal Lives in the Western Pacific

Bainton¹,

McDougall²

2021

Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific

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as Papua New Guinea (PNG) prepared to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Port Moresby, journalists reported on stark disparities that were drawing the ire of the nation. News headlines announced that the national government had just splurged on 40 Maseratis for APEC leaders (Beldi, 2018). Photos showed cargo planes unloading carefully sheathed luxury cars, each one valued at more than 100 times PNG's per capita gross domestic product (GDP). Government officials claimed these were needed to transport visiting dignitaries in 'comfort and safety' (if not style). In a nation where most roads are in disrepair and four-wheel-drives are a transport necessity, rather than a luxury, many people were outraged by the purchase. Meanwhile, in Enga Province, hundreds of kilometres from the APEC hype, a young child died of polio, more than 20 years after the last polio death and 18 years after the country was declared free of polio. His death was not an isolated case; approximately 140 other Papuan New Guineans were reportedly suffering from severe polio symptoms (Murray-Atfield, 2018). The outbreak of this once-vanquished disease, contrasted with such ostentatious displays of wealth in the nation's capital, was a vivid manifestation of a failing health system, entrenched inequalities and perverse political priorities.

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Section: Local Responses To Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Unequal Lives in the Western Pacific

Bainton¹,

McDougall²

2021

Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific

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“…Gender has been a significant focus of both anthropological and development literature in the Pacific, and, in recent years, there has been a strong focus on gender inequality (Jolly et al 2015;Lee 2017a) and gender violence (Biersack et al 2016). Gender was also a strong theme throughout the conference sessions that led to this book, particularly in relation to ongoing gender inequalities and transformations in the construction of gender identity.…”

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Pacific Youth, Local and Global

Lee¹,

Craney²

2019

Pacific Youth: Local and Global Futures

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Gender Violence

Jolly¹

2018

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology

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Gender violence, though longstanding and almost ubiquitous, has become visible as a social issue only recently. It presents a classical anthropological problem in the relation between human universals and cultural diversities in practices and values. There have been extensive debates about how to name gender violence and how to estimate and enumerate its prevalence in both domestic and public locales. Women and girls are overwhelmingly the victims and men the perpetrators, but men and boys are, more rarely, victims and violence also occurs between intimates in same‐sex and transgender partnerships. Anthropologists have been vitally involved as researchers and activists, documenting, analyzing and proffering recommendations to mitigate gender violence. This has included both detailed ethnographic studies in particular countries and communities and also ethnographies of how gender violence has been approached as part of the vernacularization of the ideals of human rights.

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Gender Violence & Human Rights

Cited by 21 publications

References 14 publications

Unequal Lives in the Western Pacific

Unequal Lives in the Western Pacific

Pacific Youth, Local and Global

Gender Violence

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