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Czech Republic
From 2018 - 2019, I was affiliated with Masaryk University's Faculty of Sociology in Brno, Czechia, funded by a Fulbright research grant. During this time, I examined how gender equality organizations frame their messages, focusing specifically on the salient policy issues of domestic violence and the sexual exploitation of women and girls. During this time, I visited numerous gender equality organizations across the country, analyzed textual material, and concluded interviews with activists, policymakers, and representatives of international organizations. In 2024, I returned to Czechia to conduct follow-up interviews with activists, collect current textual material from organizations, and document the social movement activism taking place.
Poland
In 2019, I spent two months in Poland, examining how gender equality activists frame gender-based violence.Through interviews with various activists, I examined how activists link gender-based violence to women's reproductive rights, a nationally salient topic, highlighting gender stereotypes, economic injustice, and the state as the perpetrator of violence. In 2022, I returned to Poland to conduct further interviews with activists and visit new gender equality organizations, at which time I was affiliated with the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw.
Slovakia
In 2018, I conducted fieldwork in Bratislava, Slovakia, where I examined how gender equality organizations frame the issue of gender-based violence for the public, focusing specifically on the policy issues of domestic violence and reproductive violence, including the forced sterilization of Roma women. This fieldwork included interviews with activists, policymakers, and representatives of government agencies. Further textual data produced by gender equality organizations were collected in 2022.
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