CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Ouya, Vivian |
|---|---|
| Title | Rethinking Carceral Feminist Approaches to Ending Gender-Based Violence: Considering Transformative Justice in Kenya |
| Summary | ABSTRACT Feminist advocacy in Kenya has over the years emphasized policies and laws that increase criminalization as an approach for addressing gender-based violence. Such approaches have been referred to as ‘carceral’ feminist approaches. They further expand policing, prosecution and the prison industrial complex and, as a result, empower what abolitionist feminists have termed as the ‘masculinist, colonial and neoliberal’ State. This thesis will discuss the colonial history of punishment and prisons in Kenya, analyze the existence and effects of carceral approaches as advanced through feminist advocacy in Kenya predominantly by non-profit organizations, and discuss the critiques of carceral feminist approaches for addressing gender-based violence. It asserts that social movements and non-profit organizations’ pursuit for social justice should not be fundamentally etched on expanding the criminal justice system because of the structural harm it replicates to minorities. In response, the thesis proposes community-centered approaches of accountability, specifically Transformative Justice approaches. |
| Supervisor | Winkler, Inga |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/ouya_vivian.pdf |
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