Gender-Based Violence and the State: Institutional Designs, Practices, and Lived Consequences

Abstract

This panel focuses on efforts to tackle gender-based violence and addresses institutional designs, practices and lived consequences. The first paper asks what drives successful national implementation of the Istanbul Convention and seeks answers in state feminist theory, comparing Croatia and Slovenia. The second paper examines a street harassment awareness raising campaign in French high schools, aiming to understand how potential beneficiaries make sense of and receive a policy or a programme in practice. The third paper analyses how migrant survivors of domestic violence navigate and negotiate emotional norms when seeking protection and support in Germany, and how these norms expose persistent gaps in the implementation of the Istanbul Convention. The fourth paper develops a theory about whether, how, and for whom sexual violence compels women’s political participation and tests it with an original survey of American women. Taken together, the papers examine how gender-based violence is governed, experienced, and contested across institutional, political, and everyday contexts, highlighting the intersections of policy implementation, inequality, emotional norms, and political mobilisation.

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State Feminism and the Implementation of the Istanbul Convention in Croatia and Slovenia	View Paper Details
When the Personal Becomes Political: Sexual Assault and Women’s Political Engagement	View Paper Details
“That you’re a street harassment victim is such a posh girl thing to say.” Race, Class, and Girls’ Responses to Harassment Awareness Training	View Paper Details
Emotional Credibility as Institutional Practice: Migrant Women Survivors in Germany’s Domestic Violence Protection Landscape	View Paper Details