SEMINAR:
  ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY  SEMINAR SERIES, SEMESTER 1, 2017
  - “Violence is not part of our culture”: Ruminations about violence, culture and gender.
		
Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:30 - Social Sciences Building Room 2204
		
Lynda Newland
Over the last 20 or so years in Fiji, the statements of iTaukei chiefs
on gender violence have appeared to contradict the statements of gender
activists who claim that Fiji sustains a rape culture.  It is this
contradiction and my involvement with development projects aiming to
eliminate gender violence that has provoked me to revisit a broad
spectrum of social theory in order to understand the way in which gender
is implicated in the relationship between culture and violence.  In
doing so, I question whether gender violence can truly be eliminated, if
only because it is legitimated in diverse ways by overlapping
imaginaries in indigenous and colonial traditions, as well as
contemporary global practices.
		
For more information:
  Farida Fozdar
  farida.fozdar@uwa.edu.au

Starts       : Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:30
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