Julia Kowalski
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Kowalski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Kowalski |
| SIGNATURE | KOWALSKI J |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4123-5896 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gender, Agency, and Consent in the Global South
Doing our Feminist Homework
AFA Prize Competitions
Feminist Anthro in San José
Bureaucratizing Sensitivity
Following transnational legal standards, India's antidomestic violence legislation is designed to sensitize the state to gendered violence by appointing nongovernmental organizations to help plaintiffs document abuse. Drawing on fieldwork at a family counseling center in Rajasthan, I show that staff balanced their roles as family counselors and "service providers" to plaintiffs as sensitization discourse revalued the complex documentary practices…
Association For Feminist Anthropology Upcoming Awards
After the Women's March
AFA introduces Recent PhD Graduates
Ordering dependence
As Indian women's rights organizations address violence against women, they rely heavily on mediation practices such as family counseling. At one counseling center in Jaipur, Rajasthan, family counselors operated in an environment saturated with transnational discourse about human rights and gendered violence. Yet counselors addressed household harm through arguments about kin-based care and interdependence, referred to asseva. Through their disc…
Rethinking Translation in Feminist NGOs
This article examines the modes of circulation of discourses and practices about women's rights and women's empowerment in transnational nongovernmental organizations. Using examples from Kampala, Uganda and Jaipur, India, the authors argue against the usual explanations of "translation" as a mere conduit by which global discourses of rights are vernacularized or localized, either without substantial change or with inaccurate, "traitorous" transl…
Ordering dependence
As Indian women's rights organizations address violence against women, they rely heavily on mediation practices such as family counseling. At one counseling center in Jaipur, Rajasthan, family counselors operated in an environment saturated with transnational discourse about human rights and gendered violence. Yet counselors addressed household harm through arguments about kin-based care and interdependence, referred to asseva. Through their disc…
Rethinking Translation in Feminist NGOs
This article examines the modes of circulation of discourses and practices about women's rights and women's empowerment in transnational nongovernmental organizations. Using examples from Kampala, Uganda and Jaipur, India, the authors argue against the usual explanations of "translation" as a mere conduit by which global discourses of rights are vernacularized or localized, either without substantial change or with inaccurate, "traitorous" transl…
Bureaucratizing Sensitivity
Following transnational legal standards, India's antidomestic violence legislation is designed to sensitize the state to gendered violence by appointing nongovernmental organizations to help plaintiffs document abuse. Drawing on fieldwork at a family counseling center in Rajasthan, I show that staff balanced their roles as family counselors and "service providers" to plaintiffs as sensitization discourse revalued the complex documentary practices…
Rethinking Translation in Feminist NGOs
This article examines the modes of circulation of discourses and practices about women's rights and women's empowerment in transnational nongovernmental organizations. Using examples from Kampala, Uganda and Jaipur, India, the authors argue against the usual explanations of "translation" as a mere conduit by which global discourses of rights are vernacularized or localized, either without substantial change or with inaccurate, "traitorous" transl…
Ordering dependence
As Indian women's rights organizations address violence against women, they rely heavily on mediation practices such as family counseling. At one counseling center in Jaipur, Rajasthan, family counselors operated in an environment saturated with transnational discourse about human rights and gendered violence. Yet counselors addressed household harm through arguments about kin-based care and interdependence, referred to asseva. Through their disc…
Association For Feminist Anthropology Upcoming Awards
After the Women's March
AFA introduces Recent PhD Graduates
Doing our Feminist Homework
AFA Prize Competitions
Feminist Anthro in San José
Bureaucratizing Sensitivity
Following transnational legal standards, India's antidomestic violence legislation is designed to sensitize the state to gendered violence by appointing nongovernmental organizations to help plaintiffs document abuse. Drawing on fieldwork at a family counseling center in Rajasthan, I show that staff balanced their roles as family counselors and "service providers" to plaintiffs as sensitization discourse revalued the complex documentary practices…
Gender, Agency, and Consent in the Global South
Citation (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Library science (6 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works)