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Gender and Domestic Violence in the CaribbeanHistoricizing Domestic Violence: The Ills of Indenture Ship?

Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean: Historicizing Domestic Violence: The Ills of... [Trinidad and Tobago, a twin-island republic, is often categorized as a plural society. Often, in proposing solutions to address the phenomenon of Domestic Violence or what some suggest to be Intimate Partner Violence, the prescriptions suggest a one-size-fit-all solution. Many may argue, that violence, or intimate partner violence, is not exclusive to one race, or religion, or class and that is true. This chapter questions whether violent behavior may be rooted in culture, religion, or norms that were inherited and may persist today or whether the preconditions for domestic violence may be attributed to other variables in the society. This chapter will take a closer look at domestic violence, historically, among the east indentured people and try to assess the extent to which this laid the foundation for violent behavior among the East Indian population in Trinidad and Tobago. It concludes, however, that culture may not be the determining factor but rather that there may be pre-or existing conditions that may set the foundation for domestic violence.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Gender and Domestic Violence in the CaribbeanHistoricizing Domestic Violence: The Ills of Indenture Ship?

Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change Book Series
Editors: Bissessar, Ann Marie; Huggins, Camille
Bissessar, Ann Marie
Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean — Jun 23, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-73471-8
Pages
125 –137
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-73472-5_8
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Abstract

[Trinidad and Tobago, a twin-island republic, is often categorized as a plural society. Often, in proposing solutions to address the phenomenon of Domestic Violence or what some suggest to be Intimate Partner Violence, the prescriptions suggest a one-size-fit-all solution. Many may argue, that violence, or intimate partner violence, is not exclusive to one race, or religion, or class and that is true. This chapter questions whether violent behavior may be rooted in culture, religion, or norms that were inherited and may persist today or whether the preconditions for domestic violence may be attributed to other variables in the society. This chapter will take a closer look at domestic violence, historically, among the east indentured people and try to assess the extent to which this laid the foundation for violent behavior among the East Indian population in Trinidad and Tobago. It concludes, however, that culture may not be the determining factor but rather that there may be pre-or existing conditions that may set the foundation for domestic violence.]

Published: Jun 23, 2021

Keywords: Plural society; Domestic violence; Intimate partner violence; East Indian

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