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while also opening space to ‘imagine the full panoply of creativity and innovativeness that may sustain a violence-free future’.

Moving beyond this binary carries significant epistemological and political implications. Indeed, ‘pushing beyond institutional frameworks’ may enable scholars to better ‘represents the fullness of those experiences and the complexities of gender as a source of vulnerability’,

Rethinking temporalities and geographies allows anthropologists to shift away from a ‘focus on moments of violence’, a preoccupation embedded in legal and criminal justice institutions, which structures interventions without ‘bringing an end to suffering or gendered vulnerabilities’.

Following a review of the existing literature, Mulla traces how anthropologists have sought to move beyond this binary by considering the various temporalities and geographies that shape the experiences of victim-survivors beyond interventionist logics.

and limits the understanding of ‘the structural conditions that capacitate gender-based harm’.

She examines the binary distinction between ‘domestic violence’ and ‘sexual assault’. This binary, which emerges from anthropological analyses of institutional interventions, tends to render domestic violence and sexual assault mutually exclusive phenomena

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—violence that has been enabled by the Israeli government and largely disregarded by feminists in the Global North.

This is also pertinent within settler colonial contexts. In her discussion of the “Israel exemption,” ethnic studies scholar Nada Elia analyses how Israeli soldiers have perpetrated sexual violence against Palestinian adults, young people and children (...)

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They also offered advice to therapists, recommending a stance of ‘walking beside’ survivors rather than pathologising them.

Sophie Olson and Jacky Power shared their own writing and facilitated a discussion, highlighting how creative expression can serve as a tool for self-witnessing in the face of silencing and disbelief.

In turn, this perpetuates the gendered power dynamics that underpin abuses such as ‘cyberflashing’, tech facilitated sexual abuse and sexual harassment.

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he authors challenge the prevalence of abstinence-based sex education, arguing that these approaches not only fail to prepare young people for the realities of the digital age, but they also stop young people seeking help when things go wrong.