https://hdl.handle.net/10481/7305 2026-04-11T19:08:57Z https://hdl.handle.net/10481/111822 Weaving Inter-Institutional Relationships For A Society Free Of Violence Against Women In Ecuador: A Global Look At The Local Phenomenon Mendieta Lucas, Lourdes; Alcazar Campos, Ana; Mejía Ospina, Paola Ximena; Aguilar Silva, Jenniffer Daniela This article is part of the doctoral thesis attached to the Doctorate in "Women's Studies, Discourses and Gender Practices" at the University of Granada. The study is predicated on the interest in analyzing the inter-institutional network in the city of Guayaquil, the most populous city in Ecuador. To that end, a hermeneutic reading of institutional documents, including protocols and manuals, was conducted, complemented by the narratives elucidated in in-depth interviews with 21 key actors from the institutions comprising the Network. The study employed a qualitative, descriptive approach to address the question. A central question of this study is how institutions are organized in order to fulfill their functions and obligations with regard to cases of violence. The central aim is to understand how these institutions deal with violence and how they prevent it. The study was grounded in theories of gender and networks, a methodological framework that facilitated the identification of the categories that guided the analysis of the relational dynamics between institutions and their impact on the care of victims. The findings indicated that, despite institutional endeavors, the implemented strategies have not yielded a substantial social impact, as evidenced by the high incidence of violence cases. Despite the existence of policies, the classification of violence as a crime, and the presence of a ministry or interdisciplinary teams, this political, regulatory, and governmental capital has been unsuccessful in reducing the phenomenon. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/111746 Trabajo Social Feminista, un diálogo necesario Callirgos-Viota, Jana; Alcazar Campos, Ana El Trabajo social es una disciplina que promueve la transformación social, no obstante, su incorporación al Estado, a través de la creación de los Estados de Bienestar, supuso su orientación hacia el gerencialismo y su burocratización. Aspecto este cuestionado desde el Trabajo Social Crítico (Martínez, Cruz e Ioakimidis 2014; Alguacil 2012), dentro de los cuales se situaría el Trabajo Social Feminista. Estando interesadas en este artículo en tender puentes y crear diálogos entre las perspectivas críticas en Trabajo Social. Para hacerlo realizamos una revisión de trabajos científicos, buscando las palabras: “critical social work”, “feminist social work”, “trabajo social feminista” y “trabajo social crítico” en las bases de datos de Dialnet, Scopus y Web of Science. Como resultado de estas búsquedas traemos aquí aspectos comunes entre ambas tendencias, así como sus posibles tensiones y áreas de fricción de cara a poder construir sociedades más inclusivas. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/105794 De casas grises a hogares arcoíris. Una revisión de los alojamientos de apoyo específicos para personas LGTBIQ+ en situación de sinhogarismo en Europa Gámez Ramos, Tamara; Alcazar Campos, Ana https://hdl.handle.net/10481/103151 Anti-punitive Responses to Gender-Based Violence(s): Feminist Experiences from Granada, Spain Alcazar Campos, Ana; Valenzuela Vela, Lorena; Candeias Luna, Marta This article originates from two research projects: “Violencias de género en un contexto de cambios: retos y desafíos para un análisis desde la perspectiva de género” and “Políticas feministas: análisis de prácticas no punitivas y modelos alternativos en el contexto de las violencias de género”. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Granada, Spain, we challenge the unidirectional approach to addressing victims of gender-based violence. Our aim is to transcend the singular notion of “violence” to discuss “gender-based violence(s)” in plural, and to advocate for approaches that extend beyond punitive measures in the formulation of public policies. To this end, we critically review the punitive turn in public policy, specifically in policies designed to protect women, incorporating perspectives from peripheral and community-based experiences. This issue has only recently gained attention in Spain, where scholars have underscored the importance of documenting informal, decentralized, and unofficial responses. This work was supported by: Research project “Violencias de género en un contexto de cambios: retos y desafíos para un análisis desde la perspectiva de género (VIDEGRA)”. Funded by FEDER/Regional Government of Andalusia-Regional Department of Economic Transformation, Industry, Knowledge and Universities (Spain). Call for FEDER Programs (2021). B-SEJ-220-UGR20. And Research project “Políticas feministas: análisis de prácticas no punitivas y modelos alternativos en el contexto de las violencias de género”. Funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain. Call for ‘Research Projects of the State Plan' (2023). PID2023-148552OB-I00. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/103147 Inhabiting the in-between: walls, bridges and interstices in our feminist academic practice Gregorio Gil, Carmen; Alcazar Campos, Ana; Valenzuela Vela, Lorena In this text, with an autobiographical methodology[Q3] [Del Valle, Teresa. 1995. “Metodología Para la Elaboración de la Autobiografía.” In Actas del Seminario Internacional Género y Trayectoria del Profesorado Universitario, edited by Sanz Rueda, 281–289. Madrid: Instituto de Investigaciones Feministas/Universidad Complutense; Gregorio Gil, Carmen. 2023b. “Teresa del Valle Murga, maestra y mentora: precursora de la antropología feminista en el Estado español.” In Maestras de la antropología en España: una aproximación a través del relato de vida, edited by María Jesús, Pena Castro, Elena Hernández Corrochano, and Anastasia Téllez Infantes, 153–170; Okely, Judith. 1992. “Anthropology and Autobiography: Participatory Experience and Embodied Knowledge.” InAnthropology & Autobiography, edited by Judith Okely, and Callaway Hellen, 1– 28. London: Routledge], we consider what it has meant for us to position ourselves as feminists in academia, inhabiting research lines and spaces in the field of Gender Studies. In our context, where[Q4] universities are divided into teaching departments based on areas of knowledge, placing ourselves in a peripheral, subordinate field such as that which is termed Gender and/or Feminist Studies, as well as involving a dual task, this has positioned us at times as ‘traitors’ to our fields of knowledge. In this paper, we aim to go beyond analyses demonstrating the subordinate place women occupy in universities [Acker, Sandra, and Anne, Wagner. 2019. “Feminist Scholars Working Around the Neoliberal University.”Gender and Education 31 (1): 62–81. https://do.org/10.1080/09540253.2017.1296117; Angervall, Petra and Beach, Denis. 2020. “Dividing Academic Work: gender and academic Career at Swedish Universities”. Gender and Education, 32(3), 347–362, https://do.org/10.1080/09540253.2017.1401047; Aiston, Sarah, and Chee Kent. 2021. “The Silence/ing of Academic Women.” Gender and Education 33 (2): 138–155. https://do.org/10.1080/09540253.2020.1716955] to explore how, although situating ourselves in this in-between place resulted in a dual task and has been a source of conflict, it has also been a space of escape (from the hierarchies which are the backbone of departments) and of oxygen (by enabling dialogue between knowledge and disciplines from our ethnographic perspective). This work was financed by the Research Project ‘Decentering the view. Agencies and Resistance. Agencies and resistance from the margins’ of the Vice-Rectorate for Equality, Inclusion and Sustainability of the University of Granada. Own Research and Transfer Plan 2022.