Project Archive for "Making Meaning of Gendered Violence and the Law: Global Discourses and Local Realities in Bangladesh”

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Esha Sraboni, Brown University

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Bangladeshi_newspapers_representations_violence_against_women_20211025.zip application/zip 148.1 MB 11/23/2021 06:11:AM
structured_interviews_focus_group_guides-GBV_Bangladesh_20211025.zip application/zip 143.5 KB 11/23/2021 05:30:AM

Project Citation: 

Sraboni, Esha . Project Archive for "Making Meaning of Gendered Violence and the Law: Global Discourses and Local Realities in Bangladesh”. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-11-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/E155221V1

Project Description

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This collection contains publicly-available research and broader impacts-related materials created by Esha Sraboni (Brown University, Sociology) for the Doctoral Dissertation Research (DDRI) project "Making Meaning of Gendered Violence and the Law: Global Discourses and Local Realities in Bangladesh” funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Award Number 1921059 from the Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES) Law And Social Sciences (LSS) Program. Bangladesh offers an opportunity to advance understanding of factors that shape women's decisions to access legal solutions in the case of violence. The country has made remarkable progress in gender equality initiatives, but violence against women is pervasive and women are limited in their access to justice. Moreover, the country has several systems of state and non-state legal fora that add an additional layer of complexity to understanding how individuals conceptualize justice in the case of violence against women. This project links the sociological literatures on law, gender, inequality and globalization, and uses ethnographic fieldwork in Bangladesh in one urban and one rural region with different legal fora, as well as archival analysis, to study the perceptions of a range of actors engaged in work relating to violence against women. Files include lists of themes and questions used to guide focus group discussions and interviews with policymakers, activists and service providers and survivors of gendered violence against women and zip of text files and metadata scraped from Bangladeshi newspapers: The Daily JanaKantha, The Daily Prothom Alo, and The Daily Sangram.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources National Science Foundation. Law and Social Sciences Program (1921059)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Bangladesh; Violence Against Women; Gender-based violence (GBV)
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Bangladesh
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1/1/2020 – 12/31/2021
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 1/1/2020 – 7/31/2021 (2021)
Universe:  View help for Universe Individual interviews with Bangladeshi women, focus group discussions with men and women from different socio-economic groups, lawmakers, and activists and interviews with researchers, NGO staff, and legal aid service providers
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) other; text
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes Qualitative data in the form of structured interviews and focus groups and text and document analysis from text and data mining (TDM).

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source Lower level courts, lawyer’s offices, non-government forum organized village courts and traditional court, lawyers, academics, judges, the police, feminist activists, legislators, journalists, frontline NGO service providers, local political and religious figures, litigants and non-litigants selected from the community
Collection Mode(s):  View help for Collection Mode(s) face-to-face interview; telephone interview; web scraping
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Individuals, Focus groups

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