An analysis of Aotearoa/New Zealand‟s efforts to end family violence through the perspectives of the front-line workers
Haldane, Hillary J.
An analysis of Aotearoa/New Zealand‟s efforts to end family violence through the perspectives of the front-line workers A Dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, Santa Barbara, CA, University of California Hillary Jeanne Haldane - 2007 - 229 p. 30 cm
PhD - Anthropology, Santa Barbara, CA, University of California, 2007. The full text of this thesis is available in Proquest Dissertations & Theses Global (available through university libraries).
How New Zealand‟s front-line workers make sense of the frameworks for understanding and ending family violence is the concern of this dissertation. State level policy aimed at ending family violence emphasizes the importance of multicultural and cultural community solutions for solving the problem. The front-line workers in this study consider the concepts of safety, “power and control” and change as critical to how they understand their role in helping victims of family violence.
I analyze the reasons workers hold different opinions on how to eradicate family violence based on six months of ethnographic research in New Zealand. Through interviews with front-line workers from a variety of agencies working to end family violence, the perspectives of the workers make clear how socio-economic inequality, gender discrimination, and racism play an important role in maintaining the high levels of family violence found in New Zealand. (Author's abstract)
CULTURAL ISSUES
DISCRIMINATION
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
MĀORI
RACISM
THESES
WOMEN'S REFUGES
CULTURE
NEW ZEALAND
An analysis of Aotearoa/New Zealand‟s efforts to end family violence through the perspectives of the front-line workers A Dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, Santa Barbara, CA, University of California Hillary Jeanne Haldane - 2007 - 229 p. 30 cm
PhD - Anthropology, Santa Barbara, CA, University of California, 2007. The full text of this thesis is available in Proquest Dissertations & Theses Global (available through university libraries).
How New Zealand‟s front-line workers make sense of the frameworks for understanding and ending family violence is the concern of this dissertation. State level policy aimed at ending family violence emphasizes the importance of multicultural and cultural community solutions for solving the problem. The front-line workers in this study consider the concepts of safety, “power and control” and change as critical to how they understand their role in helping victims of family violence.
I analyze the reasons workers hold different opinions on how to eradicate family violence based on six months of ethnographic research in New Zealand. Through interviews with front-line workers from a variety of agencies working to end family violence, the perspectives of the workers make clear how socio-economic inequality, gender discrimination, and racism play an important role in maintaining the high levels of family violence found in New Zealand. (Author's abstract)
CULTURAL ISSUES
DISCRIMINATION
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
MĀORI
RACISM
THESES
WOMEN'S REFUGES
CULTURE
NEW ZEALAND