Engaging the Challenges of Alleviating Wife Abuse in Northern Vietnam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14834649 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lynn Kwiatkowski (0000-0003-0115-248X, Colorado State University in Fort Collins) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 32-37 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Practicing Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0888-4552 • E-ISSN: 2994-1628 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/praa.33.3.1q0h671ppg1276h7 |
| OpenAlex | W2092889843 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
In recent years, gender-based violence has become highly visible and recognized by the Vietnamese state and the public more broadly. This article addresses the space that has recently widened, with the Vietnamese state's 1986 đôi mó'i or renovation policies, for local innovation and global influence on approaches to curtailing wife abuse and assisting women abused by their husbands. Anthropology can help us to understand some of the constraints and contradictions that can arise in such a space of innovation. For instance, ethnographic research reveals how local Vietnamese non-governmental organizations (VNGOs), state institutions, and international organizations in Vietnam can cooperate to develop and implement new and potentially beneficial programs for abused women. Yet, at the same time, frontline practitioners struggle to implement these new approaches, with cultural lenses that limit acceptance of new ideologies, few resources that provide long-term support to abused women, or, in some cases, little exposure to the new ideas. Anthropological research can assist in identifying the cultural and structural constraints experienced by individuals working with abused women and community members, and the contradictions that can arise between the shaping and the implementing of policy addressing wife abuse, particularly globally influenced ideologies and practices introduced into a society
Criminology · Domestic violence · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Ideology · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · State (computer science · Suicide prevention · Vietnamese · Wife · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Sex work and related issues · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |