Gender-Based and Intersectional Violence: A Contextual Global Approach

Social scientists/sociologists, activists, and anti-violence movements have drawn attention to the roles of states and non-state actors in the global problem of violence and society. Significant contributions have been made, especially by feminist, anti-racist, decolonial, and social justice researchers, activists, practitioners, and survivors. They have highlighted how the state and other actors create the conditions that enable violence with implications for individuals, families, and communities at the micro, meso, and macro levels. This presentation aims to further the notion of a contextual global sociology in relation to the critical issue of gender-based and intersectional violence. We use a contextual global approach to recognize the global prevalence of phenomena and processes, but also emphasize the need to examine the specific historical, spatial, economic, social, political, structural, and cultural contexts and their connections in our global analysis. The presentation will highlight some contextual, comparative, collaborative, transnational, and interdisciplinary research on gender-based and intersectional violence by drawing upon contributions to a special issue in different local and national contexts. Specific attention will be paid to how violence is rendered invisible, incited or abetted by state and non-state actors; and the implications for families and communities, activists, states and international systems.