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Can understanding phenomenology and human capabilities help us address acid violence? / Siddika, Aisha; Baruah, Bipasha

Siddika, Aisha	Journal Article
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We draw on scholarly literature on the phenomenology of power and disability to understand both the impact of acid violence upon survivors’ lives and the motivations of perpetrators. We employ a human capabilities approach, espoused by prominent development theorists such as Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, to propose policy responses and support systems based not solely on the provision of financial and material resources, but also on improving the social position of acid violence survivors. We show how engaging simultaneously with these frameworks will help move the political and philosophical discourse on acid violence forward and also enable us to frame more responsive and enabling policies to support survivors.

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Phenomenology ; Human Capabilities ; Acid Violence

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Vulnerability and resilience: critical reflexivity in gendered violence research / Pio, Edwina; Singh, Smita

Pio, Edwina	Article
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South Asian women are a focus area for organisations such as the UN, World Bank and WHO, where violence against women severely constrains policy instruments such as the Millennium Development Goals. The field researcher is often invisible in research space, which informs policy in practice. Through critical reflexivity we rupture the silence on researcher vulnerability, foregrounding researcher resilience as the ethical compass in the research space of gendered violence. Through narratives of researchers as development actors in the river of corrosiveness involved in acid violence research, we offer a typology for researcher resilience for consideration in research designs for policy development.

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Ethics ; South Asian Women ; Acid Violence ; Critical Reflexivity ; Researcher Resilience ; Researcher Harm

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