Alison Crosby
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Crosby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Crosby |
| SIGNATURE | CROSBY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Lost in Translation? Agency and Incommensurability in the Transnational Travelling of Discourses of Sexualized Harm
This article argues for incommensurability, incoherence, and difference as the grounds through which to think about sexualized harm and its redress. It seeks to remove the “me” from the “too”, and to instead consider the structures of white supremacy and neocolonial power that have facilitated white Western feminists’ ability to participate in shaping a hegemonic discourse of sexualized harm and its transnational travelling. The article traces th…
Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice: How Societies Recover after Collective Violence
Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element…
Standing in Between: The Healing Praxis of Mayan Women Intermediaries in Post-Genocide Guatemala
This article examines how Mayan intermediaries make meaning of their roles in accompanying Mayan women survivors of gross violations of human rights as they search for truth, justice, and reparation in post-genocide Guatemala. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, the authors analyzed in-depth interviews with six intermediaries who worked with survivors in the context of a seven year feminist participatory and action research project. …
Carrying a heavy load: Mayan women’s understandings of reparation in the aftermath of genocide
Drawing on extensive testimony from Ixil women survivors of sexual violence, the 10 May 2013 verdict in the genocide trial of former de facto Guatemalan head of state and army general Efraín Ríos Montt highlighted the perpetration of sexual violence as an integral component in the attempt to destroy the Maya Ixil as an ethnic group and thus evidence of genocide. Acknowledging that sexual violence was a weapon of genocide in Guatemala contributes …
Mayan Women Survivors Speak: The Gendered Relations of Truth Telling in Postwar Guatemala
1 Truth telling in response to massive violations of human rights is a gendered sociopolitical and cultural construction. It is also inherently relational and necessitates multidimensional engagement between state and civil society. Drawing on two years of feminist participatory action research, this article explores the significance of civil society-initiated truth-telling processes in Guatemala, in particular the 2010 Tribunal of Conscience for…
Anatomy of a Workshop: Women's Struggles for Transformative Participation in Latin America
The systemic use of sexual violence as a weapon of war was a profound social silence during the armed conflicts in Guatemala and Perú, and in Colombia, where war rages on, women's bodies continue to be the invisibilized site of territorial struggle and violence. However, in each of these contexts, women survivors are breaking this silence, speaking their truths, seeking healing, and demanding justice. These struggles for personal and collective l…
Return to the Nation: The Organizational Challenges Confronted by Guatemalan Refugee Women
This article focuses on the challenges faced by organized Guatemalan refugee women on return from exile in Mexico. It seems that exile provided a temporary space in which women could organize and assert their rights as women, and this space was closed down upon return to the nation. Part of the explanation can be found in conflicts over power, in particular within the return communities. It is argued that the nature of international community int…
Mayan Women Survivors Speak: The Gendered Relations of Truth Telling in Postwar Guatemala
1 Truth telling in response to massive violations of human rights is a gendered sociopolitical and cultural construction. It is also inherently relational and necessitates multidimensional engagement between state and civil society. Drawing on two years of feminist participatory action research, this article explores the significance of civil society-initiated truth-telling processes in Guatemala, in particular the 2010 Tribunal of Conscience for…
Standing in Between: The Healing Praxis of Mayan Women Intermediaries in Post-Genocide Guatemala
This article examines how Mayan intermediaries make meaning of their roles in accompanying Mayan women survivors of gross violations of human rights as they search for truth, justice, and reparation in post-genocide Guatemala. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, the authors analyzed in-depth interviews with six intermediaries who worked with survivors in the context of a seven year feminist participatory and action research project. …
Anatomy of a Workshop: Women's Struggles for Transformative Participation in Latin America
The systemic use of sexual violence as a weapon of war was a profound social silence during the armed conflicts in Guatemala and Perú, and in Colombia, where war rages on, women's bodies continue to be the invisibilized site of territorial struggle and violence. However, in each of these contexts, women survivors are breaking this silence, speaking their truths, seeking healing, and demanding justice. These struggles for personal and collective l…
Carrying a heavy load: Mayan women’s understandings of reparation in the aftermath of genocide
Drawing on extensive testimony from Ixil women survivors of sexual violence, the 10 May 2013 verdict in the genocide trial of former de facto Guatemalan head of state and army general Efraín Ríos Montt highlighted the perpetration of sexual violence as an integral component in the attempt to destroy the Maya Ixil as an ethnic group and thus evidence of genocide. Acknowledging that sexual violence was a weapon of genocide in Guatemala contributes …
Return to the Nation: The Organizational Challenges Confronted by Guatemalan Refugee Women
This article focuses on the challenges faced by organized Guatemalan refugee women on return from exile in Mexico. It seems that exile provided a temporary space in which women could organize and assert their rights as women, and this space was closed down upon return to the nation. Part of the explanation can be found in conflicts over power, in particular within the return communities. It is argued that the nature of international community int…
Anatomy of a Workshop: Women's Struggles for Transformative Participation in Latin America
The systemic use of sexual violence as a weapon of war was a profound social silence during the armed conflicts in Guatemala and Perú, and in Colombia, where war rages on, women's bodies continue to be the invisibilized site of territorial struggle and violence. However, in each of these contexts, women survivors are breaking this silence, speaking their truths, seeking healing, and demanding justice. These struggles for personal and collective l…
Mayan Women Survivors Speak: The Gendered Relations of Truth Telling in Postwar Guatemala
1 Truth telling in response to massive violations of human rights is a gendered sociopolitical and cultural construction. It is also inherently relational and necessitates multidimensional engagement between state and civil society. Drawing on two years of feminist participatory action research, this article explores the significance of civil society-initiated truth-telling processes in Guatemala, in particular the 2010 Tribunal of Conscience for…
Carrying a heavy load: Mayan women’s understandings of reparation in the aftermath of genocide
Drawing on extensive testimony from Ixil women survivors of sexual violence, the 10 May 2013 verdict in the genocide trial of former de facto Guatemalan head of state and army general Efraín Ríos Montt highlighted the perpetration of sexual violence as an integral component in the attempt to destroy the Maya Ixil as an ethnic group and thus evidence of genocide. Acknowledging that sexual violence was a weapon of genocide in Guatemala contributes …
Standing in Between: The Healing Praxis of Mayan Women Intermediaries in Post-Genocide Guatemala
This article examines how Mayan intermediaries make meaning of their roles in accompanying Mayan women survivors of gross violations of human rights as they search for truth, justice, and reparation in post-genocide Guatemala. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, the authors analyzed in-depth interviews with six intermediaries who worked with survivors in the context of a seven year feminist participatory and action research project. …
Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice: How Societies Recover after Collective Violence
Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element…
Lost in Translation? Agency and Incommensurability in the Transnational Travelling of Discourses of Sexualized Harm
This article argues for incommensurability, incoherence, and difference as the grounds through which to think about sexualized harm and its redress. It seeks to remove the “me” from the “too”, and to instead consider the structures of white supremacy and neocolonial power that have facilitated white Western feminists’ ability to participate in shaping a hegemonic discourse of sexualized harm and its transnational travelling. The article traces th…
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