Intimate Partner Violence and Advocate Response: Redefining Love in Western Belize

Name: Intimate Partner Violence and Advocate Response: Redefining Love in Western Belize (Anthropology of Well-being: Individual, Community, Society)
Brand: Lexington Books
SKU: 9781498503600
Price: 6495.00 INR
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by Beske, Melissa A.

Lexington Books · 2016

An ethnographic study of partner abuse in Belize's Cayo District that combines anthropology with activism, looking at its causes and at the work of local advocates.

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About this book

Based on twenty months of fieldwork in the Cayo District of Belize between 2002 and 2013, this book examines how common partner abuse is in the area, how complicated it is, and which cultural and structural factors feed it. Melissa A. Beske also looks closely at advocates, tracing how they work across local, national and transnational frameworks.

The author blends activist anthropology with close ethnographic detail. Narratives from survivors and supporters sit alongside comparative viewpoints, so the suffering described is never separated from the people trying to change things. The book also offers a method for assessing gender-based abuse across disciplines while still taking a clear ethical position on social causes.

Edition note: published by Lexington Books in 2016, 191 pages, ISBN-13 9781498503600. It forms part of a series on the anthropology of well-being.