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Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention

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Abstract

Men’s and boys’ lives are structured not only by gender but by other forms of social difference and inequality. This chapter argues that violence prevention efforts with any group of men or boys in any cultural context must have an intersectional approach. This chapter of the book begins by describing an intersectional approach to men, masculinities, and violence. It explores how forms of social difference such as race and ethnicity shape men’s violence against women, including victimisation, perpetration, and community perceptions of this violence. The chapter then provides detailed guidance on how to engage immigrant, ethnic minority, and indigenous men in violence prevention. Such efforts must address the social and economic conditions of men and communities, be based on culturally relevant content and processes, acknowledge racism and intersectional disadvantage, address culturally specific supports for violence and gender inequality, and draw on local resources in promoting non-violence.

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  1. 1.

    ‘CaLD’, or ‘culturally and linguistically diverse’, is a commonly used term in the Australian context for people from ethnic minority backgrounds. It replaced the term ‘non-English speaking background’ or ‘NESB’ in policy usage in the 1990s. However, the term ‘CaLD’ is vulnerable to the criticism that it implicitly centres white, Anglo people and communities as the norm, while other people and communities are ‘othered’ as ‘diverse’. I have opted for the terms ‘ethnic minority’ and ‘non-English speaking background’ (NESB) instead.

  2. 2.

    See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifna0AsLQdE.

  3. 3.

    See www.gov.mb.ca/stoptheviolence/amavc.html.

  4. 4.

    See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7AjGYjh91E.

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Flood, M. (2019). Working with Diverse Populations. In: Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention. Global Masculinities. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-44208-6_11

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