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HarassEU · Street Harassment as a Public Problem: The Circulation of Policy Frames and Solutions in Europe

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

Период: 2022-10-01 → 2024-09-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 191 760 €
Участници: 2
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Street Harassment as a Public Problem: The Circulation of Policy Frames and Solutions in Europe

When, in the mid-2010s, activists of the transnational Hollaback! movement started working with politicians in the Netherlands to combat a diversity of acts—whistling, sexualized remarks, and insults towards women and LGBTQI+ people, etc.—designated as “street harassment,” they were caught by surprise. Most members had a background in feminist activism and conceived of street harassment as gender-based violence produced by male domination. Most Dutch politicians who were interested in working with them, however, related the issue to immigration and argued that it was caused mainly by youth with a migration background. This difficulty illustrates how supranational governmental organizations and non-governmental organizations face the challenge of developing international initiatives to address an issue, while considering specificities in what is locally understood to be the problem. The aim of the HarassEU project has been to increase our understanding of how policies and frames travel, and how actors operating on a local, national, and supranational level interact in producing framings and policy solutions. How do problem definitions of street harassment and other social problems come about, how do they travel, and how do they impact how this problem is addressed in practice? This main goal was divided into three objectives, which have guided the project over the last two years: 1. HarassEU empirically examines how supranational, national, and local level organizations in Europe interact in producing and implementing policy frames and solutions. 2. HarassEU forges a novel theoretical framework for conceptualizing how frames and policies emerge and travel, and how policymakers at different levels negotiate the nature of a public problem and how best to address it. 3. The project disseminates research output among academic, professional, and general audiences. These objectives have been successfully achieved through various work packages. Moreover, the MSCA-grant has allowed me, on a personal level, to further develop a profile as an independent researcher specialized in gender-based violence and policy.

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

Цел на проекта

Supranational organizations working on street harassment face the challenge of developing initiatives to address this issue around the world, while considering local specificities in what exactly is locally understood to be the problem. An ethnographic study of the production and circulation of policy frames of and solutions to street harassment, HarassEU contributes to our understanding of how policies and frames travel, and how governmental and non-governmental organizations operating on a local, national, and supranational level negotiate the nature of a problem and how to address it. Based at KU Leuven’s Centre for Sociological Research, the project is supervised by Prof. Giselinde Kuipers, a renowned scholar in comparative and cultural sociology. It includes a secondment at the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies at Sciences Po Paris supervised by Prof. Anne Revillard, an expert in public policy and gender. The empirical investigation concerns the production of policy initiatives within supranational organizations working on this issue in Europe, as well as how supranational, national, and local organizations interact through case studies of four national contexts: the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Italy. Relating research in gender studies to scholarship in pragmatic sociology and political science on processes of politicization allows HarassEU to deliver innovative results not only with respect to our understanding of the problem of street harassment, but also to provide original contributions to scholarship on public problems and policy agenda formation, globalization and international circulation, and gender and ethnicity. The analysis of tensions that organizations operating on different levels encounter in interacting with each other provides the basis for policy recommendations on how to more effectively build transnational coalitions to combat street harassment and other social problems.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · LeuvenКоординаторБелгия
FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES · ParisФранция