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High Risk Leadership · High Risk Leadership in Latin America: Women's Pursuit of Gender Justice in Violent Contexts

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-03-01 → 2024-10-29
Финансиране от ЕС: 234 254 €
Участници: 2
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Жените в Латинска Америка, които се борят за справедливост в условия на насилие – като майките, търсещи изчезнали близки в Мексико, се анализират тук. Това помага да се разбере какво мотивира лидерите да поемат огромни рискове, когато няма видими ползи.

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High Risk Leadership in Latin America: Women's Pursuit of Gender Justice in Violent Contexts

In contexts of chronic violence and armed conflict, we might expect women to shy away from activities that augment their exposure to harm. The Fellow’s previous research shows, however, that against all odds, women do engage in gendered high-risk collective action. These women transgress traditional gender barriers and thus expose themselves to the additional risks of high violence, including targeting by actors for sexualized and others violent forms of punishment. Not only are such women resisting violence, however, the Fellow’s research shows that their activism focuses on the pursuit of gender justice. The objectives of this project are twofold: 1: To further document and explain women’s high-risk mobilisation in Latin America; 2: To comparatively study women’s leadership in high-risk social movements in the region. Firstly, the project generated new research about women’s high-risk collective action in Mexico and El Salvador. Using qualitative methods, the Fellow has undertaken research with mothers searching for the disappeared in Veracruz, Mexico, with Indigenous women fighting against gender-based violence in Guerrero, Mexico, and feminist organizations under threat from both gangs and government forces around El Salvador. Secondly, the project undertook novel research about women’s charismatic leadership in Mexico, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Venezuela, and Brazil. The Fellow created a unique database including information on one hundred women’s experiences of leadership in violent contexts. This data is being analyzed to understand what motivates gendered high-risk leadership when there are no perceivable benefits for first movers. The project has made contributions at the nexus of gender and conflict studies and social movement studies. It has already expanded understandings of “high-risk feminism” (Zulver, 2022), and is advancing understandings of women’s empowerment in restricted contexts more broadly. The Fellow widely disseminated the project’s results in both academic and policy spaces.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The proposed project is about women’s resistance to violence(s) in high risk settings in Latin America.In contexts of high violence, we might expect women – often portrayed as weaker or more vulnerable members of society – to shy away from activities that augment their exposure to risk. Dr Zulver’s previous research shows, however, that against all odds, women do engage in high-risk collective action. These women transgress traditional gender barriers and thus expose themselves to the additional risks of high violence. Not only are such women resisting violence, Zulver’s work shows that their activism focuses on the pursuit of gender justice.The project has two specific objectives: (1) to further document and explain women’s high risk mobilisation in the region (particularly in Mexico) and (2) to comparatively study women’s leadership in high risk social movements in the region.The project will serve the triple purpose of contributing to social movements literature on leadership, expanding understandings of High Risk Feminism, and advancing scholarship on women’s empowerment more broadly. In this setting, complex, robust information about leaders and women’s organisations who mobilise in spite of and because of the quotidian violence to which they are exposed is crucial.The project’s outputs include three peer-reviewed articles, a book manuscript (about women’s high risk leadership), op-eds in newspapers, a workshop for leaders of women’s organisations, seminar and conference presentations at international conferences, gender sensitivity training sessions for PhD students and early career researchers, and a database on women leaders in the region.The key goal of the Fellowship is to establish Dr Zulver at the forefront of her field as an expert on women’s mobilisation in violent contexts. It will directly benefit her career prospects by equipping her with specialised knowledge and personalised training.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · OxfordКоординаторОбединеното кралство
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTONOMA DE MEXICO (UNAM) · CIUDAD DE MEXICOМексико