Gender Violence In Poverty Contexts (Education, Poverty And International Development)

This book is concerned with understanding the complex ways in which gender violence and poverty impact on young people's lives, and the potential for education to challenge violence. Although there is a growing literature considering the links between violence, gender or poverty and education in developing countries, few studies look at the interconnections between all of these themes. A key premise of the book is that in order to understand the many dimensions of violence in young people's lives, these interconnections need to be examined. This book is the first major attempt to define the field of gender violence studies in education in poverty contexts. This is achieved by setting out relevant theoretical perspectives, empirical methodologies and case studies of the impact of gender violence on young people's lives in families, schools and communities. There are three interrelated aims: -to build theoretical and methodological framings for understanding the relationship between gender, violence, poverty and education -to explore how young people living in varying contexts of poverty in the Global South learn about, engage in, respond to and resist gender violence -to investigate how institutions, including schools, families, communities, governments, international and non-governmental organisations and the media constrain or expand possibilities to challenge gender violence in the Global South. This multi-dimensional conceptualisation of gender, violence and poverty has the potential to create much more textured understandings of gender violence in education in poverty contexts. Change is not just about preventing, punishing or protecting individuals, but understanding the subjective meanings of violence, identifying moments of resistance, and eroding the intersectional boundaries. This book is concerned with the potential for education to help young people to understand, resist and rupture the many faces of violence.

• | Author: Jenny Parkes
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: May 27, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0415712491
• | ISBN-13: 9780415712491