Reporting in the #MeToo era
- Addresses the deficit of coverage of violence against women in the Global South.
- Promotes informed, intersectional themed, and solutions-based reporting in the region.
- Collaborated with 14 journalism scholars from Australia, the USA, the UK, Argentina; Brazil; Mexico; Indonesia; Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa; Egypt; Libya, Syria and Yemen.
Reviews
This edited collection examines the ways legacy press and social media report on violence against women in the #MeToo era using a variety of theoretical frameworks and methodologies. A must-read for journalism, communication, and gender studies scholars interested in understanding how socioeconomic factors and geopolitical power relations influence discourse around violence against women in the Global South.
Ammina Kothari, Professor of Journalism, Harrington School of Communication and Media, University of Rhode Island, USA
Few fields have moved as far and fast as the violence against women movement. In fact, advances in the social scientific study of this major social problem have been swifter than the vaunted leaps in some of the physical sciences. However, even highly seasoned scholars, including those based in academic journalism programs, have not been fleet of foot in examining key issues related to various types of violence against women in the Global South. Thus, this anthology makes a much-needed path-breaking contribution to an interdisciplinary understanding of woman abuse in the five regions of the most populated part of the world.
Walter DeKeseredy, Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, West Virginia University, USA
The #metoo movement that began on social media in the United States rapidly diffused around the world moving women from victims to power brokers, from margins to the center of old and new media. But were women in global south countries part of this movement? This impressive new collection produced through a collaboration between journalism scholars tells the, until now, untold story of how survivor-centered reporting of violence against women is challenging patriarchal gender norms and the authoritarian regimes that enforce them. The volume offers powerful insights on how to improve media reporting given the reality that blame-the-victim narratives and societal stigma perpetuate the gross underreporting of this violence.
Professor Jacqui True, Director of Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (Australia and the Indo-Pacific), Monash University, Australia
Baker, A.; González de Bustamante, C.; & Relly, J. (eds.) (2023). Violence Against Women in the Global South: Reporting in the #MeToo era, London: Palgrave/Springer, pp.1-259.
