CHANSE Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Project title: Going public: Disclosing and addressing the shadow crisis of gender-based family violence through humanities and sociali sciences in the digital era
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Country: Czechia (CZ)

Research area

• Call theme: Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities
• Keywords:

  gender-based violence; domestic violence; shadow pandemic; digitalisation

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  Our team is composed of sociogists and an anthropologist and we are therefore looking for partners with expertise in core humanities disciplines but with interest in close interdisciplinary collaboration. Our team has done research on gender-based violence in and outside the pandemic, and its members focus on how digitalisation affects work lives and life in general. We have a cooperation partner in the area of theatre.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  Crises tend to be defined, just as in this Chanse call, as a rupture in the social fabric, something massive and with a distinct beginning and subsequent developments, responses, overcoming or failures to do so, restructuring. While individual crises are also mentioned, the link between the two - societal (and also expert / scientific) and individual - is not given as much conceptual thought as might be adequate. In our project we want to mobilize interdisciplinary collaboration across social and humanities science in order to re-think and re-conceptualize one of the shadow crises, namely that of gender-based violence with emphasis on its manifestations in close relations (family violence), in the context of increasing but notoriously uneven and unequal digitalization processes. How can humanities and social sciences contribute to reframing gender-based domestic violence as not an individual or family crisis but one that affects the whole society? What are the mechanisms that contribute to hiding it from view? How can we mobilize our disciplines (anthropology, psychology, linguistics, media studies, gender studies, literary studies, philosophy, sociology, criminology and more) to reframe this violence as crisis in a digitalizing world? What can these offer and how can they collaborate with arts to address this crisis? Methods to be used include qualitative interviews, textual/media/archival and possibly linguistic and visual analysis and more based on the expertise of the prospective partners.

Blanka Nyklová

• Organisation: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Position:
• E-mail: blanka.nyklova@soc.cas.cz