Abstract

CHIRINO ORTIZ, Fabiana  and  JAUREGUI, Maggie. Gender-based violence as conceived and experienced by the inhabitants of Ascención de Guarayos in the Department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Rev. aportes de la comunicación [online]. 2016, n.21, pp.9-22. ISSN 2306-8671.

Gender-based violence has become in the past years a social and public health problem of great concern due to the increase in cases of violence against women and, in extreme cases, "feminicides" (female homicides). Data at the global, national and regional levels reflects this situation and has generated interpretations from different perspectives. The present study addressed the issue from the perspective of the conceptions and experiences of the inhabitants of a town of Santa Cruz, Ascensión de Guarayos, in order to identify practices in these social constructs that support and reproduce violence or those practices that limit violence. The study, executed with a qualitative approach, followed the grounded theory methodology, which enables the construction, based on theactors' statements, of guidelines of a local theory on a subject, in this case gender-based violence. Due to the work's magnitude, in the present article only some of the results of the study will be presented; these correspond to the conceptions and experiences related to physical violence towards women and the implications that the significance of the violence have in the daily lives of the actors of this population.

Keywords : Gender-based violence; conceptions and experiences.

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