violence
Unmasking Injustice: A Comprehensive Review of Violence Against Women in India
By: NAJMA ANJUM MIRCHAL, TARUN JOSHI – Violence against women in India encompasses a range of abuses, including physical, sexual, and psychological harm. This analysis aims to shed light on the issue within India’s patriarchal society, where such abuse has become normalized. Despite laws aimed at protecting women, their status often remains unchanged, highlighting the…
Understanding displacement and migration from violence affected Villages in Jammu and Kashmir: Anthropological Insights
By: URFAT ANJEM MIR, P.C. JOSHI – The classical village studies in India have focused on ideas of caste, kinship, village as a social reality, with an emphasis on the sociological conditions of life, specifically the socio-cultural and economic aspects of a rural society. The sociological condition of people living in rural areas which have…
Labour Market Participation and Marital Violence against Women in Rural Bangladesh: Men Reports
By: RIPON KUMAR SARKAR, K.M. RABIUL KARIM – The main objective of this research was to examine the impact of women’s employment on marital violence in rural Bangladesh. The present study findings reveales that different factors are related to the association between women’s labour market participation and marital violence. For example, women’s age, women’s education,…
The Continuum of Violence
By: PHILIPPE SCHWEIZER – Here we will go beyond the variety of violence to show its unity, common points and continuities. For although there are multiple forms of violence, they are interrelated: they define a continuum from trivial to extreme violence. Violence against oneself, things, living things such as plants and animals, other nations, the…
Ciocche e trecce: la donna tra i suoi nodi
By: NADIA BERTI – This work shows the role of women’s hair in society and in history. The work was presented at the ninth edition of the festival “The violence illustrated” of Bologna, within Open (h) Air, a Paola Luciani project. Hidden under the hair’s symbol there is the image of a woman free to…
“They are poor and violent”: stereotype and the Ibadan urban motor park space
By: ADEYEMI JOHNSON ADEMOWO – In this work, we are interested in finding out how, and why, the interplay of poverty and violence, the park stereotypes, has problematised the motor park space, and consequently the culture that evolved from the space. Of great concern to us are the origin and the operation of the park;…