Violence against Women in South Asia

2013 ◽  
pp. 38-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Unaiza Niaz
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Violence Against Women

Violence against women in South Asia: The need for the active engagement of the health sector

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 678-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shireen J. Jejeebhoy ◽  
K.G. Santhya ◽  
Rajib Acharya
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Active Engagement

Siddi Street Theatre and Dance in North Karnataka, South India

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pashington Obeng
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
South India ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
African Heritage ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Street Theatre ◽  
Multiple Domains

Abstract The Karnataka African Indians (Siddis, Habshis and Cafrees), drawing on both Indian performing arts and their African heritage, use dance and street theatre for political action, entertainment, social critique and self-expression. This paper focuses on Siddi dance and theatre in Uttara Kannada (North Karnataka), South India. Karnataka Siddis number about twenty thousand (Prasad, 2005). Using dramatic aesthetics, performers portray farming, hunting, child labour, violence against women and domestic work motifs to articulate Siddi grundnorms (foundational norms). I address how some Siddi dances and street theatre parallel and yet may differ from other performing arts in South India. Further, the paper complicates the current discourse on how diasporic African communities use the performing arts. My paper goes beyond the Atlantic Diaspora model. It examines ways in which Siddis of South Asia use their dance and theatre to express multiple domains of cultural art forms alongside the everyday use of such performances including a counter-hegemonic stance.

A Global Genealogy

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Mona Lena Krook
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Global South ◽  
Women In Politics ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Global Organizations ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Different Parts

Chapter 2 traces the global emergence of the concept of violence against women in politics. It outlines how the first efforts to name the problem of violence against women in politics emerged in parallel across different parts of the global South: Working inductively, locally elected women in Bolivia theorized their experiences as “political harassment and violence against women” in the late 1990s; networks of elected women across South Asia, with support from global organizations, mapped and condemned manifestations of “violence against women in politics” in the mid-2000s; and state and non-state actors in Kenya recognized and sought to tackle “electoral gender-based violence” in the late 2000s. The chapter then goes on to show how inductive theorizing planted important seeds subsequently taken up by a wide range of international practitioners, who in the late 2000s and early 2010s actively worked to craft a global concept of “violence against women in politics.”

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