An ethnographic study of coloured women’s perceptions of violence in the Northern areas, Port Elizabeth
- Authors: Welcome, Chantelle Leslie
- Date: 2025-04
- Subjects: Women, Coloured -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth , Violence -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth , Gender based violence
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/72575 , vital:79239
- Description: This study seeks to investigate coloured women’s perceptions of violence and seeks to add to the growing body of work on women and violence in the Northern areas of Port Elizabeth; namely Arcadia, Salt Lake, and Helenvale. In doing so, the study investigates the tactics women use to avoid participation in violence and crime and how they build and maintain resilience to violence. Crime and violence are normalised in the everyday life of residents of the Northern areas. Residents must contend with gangsterism and violence in public and domestic spaces. Violence is also pervasive in the everyday life of the youth. High unemployment rates, crime rates, and historical structural inequality are a few of the contributing factors to the occurrence and persistence of social deviance among the youth in these communities. This study seeks to ethnographically explore the perceptions of women in both domestic and public spaces by emphasizing the female perspective of everyday life within violent communities. The study investigates socio-economic issues such as violence, “broken” family structures, inequality, and poverty, and their contribution to pervasive violence within these communities. It seeks to explore the role that coloured women play in their dysfunctional communities and the tactics used to circumvent violence, especially violence in the form of gangsterism. Existing literature focuses on men and their participation in violence while women and their perceptions of violence fall into the backdrop of these dominant discourses. Therefore, this study attempts to rethink women’s (non-)involvement in violence and address their perceptions and tactics used to foster resilience to violence within their communities. The study also seeks to explore the positionality of women within their communities, and the factors which influence participation in or resilience to violence. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Governmental and Social Sciences, 2025
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- Date Issued: 2025-04
- Authors: Welcome, Chantelle Leslie
- Date: 2025-04
- Subjects: Women, Coloured -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth , Violence -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth , Gender based violence
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/72575 , vital:79239
- Description: This study seeks to investigate coloured women’s perceptions of violence and seeks to add to the growing body of work on women and violence in the Northern areas of Port Elizabeth; namely Arcadia, Salt Lake, and Helenvale. In doing so, the study investigates the tactics women use to avoid participation in violence and crime and how they build and maintain resilience to violence. Crime and violence are normalised in the everyday life of residents of the Northern areas. Residents must contend with gangsterism and violence in public and domestic spaces. Violence is also pervasive in the everyday life of the youth. High unemployment rates, crime rates, and historical structural inequality are a few of the contributing factors to the occurrence and persistence of social deviance among the youth in these communities. This study seeks to ethnographically explore the perceptions of women in both domestic and public spaces by emphasizing the female perspective of everyday life within violent communities. The study investigates socio-economic issues such as violence, “broken” family structures, inequality, and poverty, and their contribution to pervasive violence within these communities. It seeks to explore the role that coloured women play in their dysfunctional communities and the tactics used to circumvent violence, especially violence in the form of gangsterism. Existing literature focuses on men and their participation in violence while women and their perceptions of violence fall into the backdrop of these dominant discourses. Therefore, this study attempts to rethink women’s (non-)involvement in violence and address their perceptions and tactics used to foster resilience to violence within their communities. The study also seeks to explore the positionality of women within their communities, and the factors which influence participation in or resilience to violence. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Governmental and Social Sciences, 2025
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- Date Issued: 2025-04
The role of hashtag activism in advocating against gender-based violence and promoting perpetrator accountability : subtitle if needed. If no subtitle follow instructions in manual
- Authors: Nontyi, Antonnet
- Date: 2024-04
- Subjects: Gender based violence , Victims of violent crimes , Women -- Crimes against -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/63421 , vital:73356
- Description: This study is aimed at determining the role that hashtag activism has played in advocating against gender-based violence (GBV) and promoting perpetrator accountability. The study used major GBV hashtags such as #MeToo, #WhyIStayed and #AmINext to investigate how effective these hashtag movements have been in breaking the silence around GBV and fighting against GBV. The study made use of both qualitative and quantitative research methodology, which was useful to gain a deeper understanding of GBV and all the social and cultural practices that perpetuate it. Qualitative data were collected by means of interviews and tweets under the selected hashtags. An online survey questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data. The data provided an understanding of the complexities surrounding GBV and people’s views on hashtag activism and GBV. Through the data analysis, the study found that hashtag activism has been effective in changing dominant discourses, advocating against GBV, creating awareness and solidarity around GBV issues, and promoting perpetrator accountability. The study calls for a global collective effort to develop, record and archive feminist initiatives so that all the structural conditions which enable and perpetuate sexual violence are exposed and cannot be forgotten or ignored. Future research should look into how harmful societal norms can be challenged and how the effectiveness of hashtag movements can be enhanced , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Language, Media and Communication, 2024
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- Date Issued: 2024-04
- Authors: Nontyi, Antonnet
- Date: 2024-04
- Subjects: Gender based violence , Victims of violent crimes , Women -- Crimes against -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/63421 , vital:73356
- Description: This study is aimed at determining the role that hashtag activism has played in advocating against gender-based violence (GBV) and promoting perpetrator accountability. The study used major GBV hashtags such as #MeToo, #WhyIStayed and #AmINext to investigate how effective these hashtag movements have been in breaking the silence around GBV and fighting against GBV. The study made use of both qualitative and quantitative research methodology, which was useful to gain a deeper understanding of GBV and all the social and cultural practices that perpetuate it. Qualitative data were collected by means of interviews and tweets under the selected hashtags. An online survey questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data. The data provided an understanding of the complexities surrounding GBV and people’s views on hashtag activism and GBV. Through the data analysis, the study found that hashtag activism has been effective in changing dominant discourses, advocating against GBV, creating awareness and solidarity around GBV issues, and promoting perpetrator accountability. The study calls for a global collective effort to develop, record and archive feminist initiatives so that all the structural conditions which enable and perpetuate sexual violence are exposed and cannot be forgotten or ignored. Future research should look into how harmful societal norms can be challenged and how the effectiveness of hashtag movements can be enhanced , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Language, Media and Communication, 2024
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- Date Issued: 2024-04
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