Note: For general guides to activism and social change work, see here. For materials on feminist activism and advocacy, see here.
Overviews
DeGue, S, Holt M.K, Massetti G.M, Matjasko J.L, Tharp A.T, Valle L.A. (2012). Looking Ahead Toward Community-Level Strategies to Prevent Sexual Violence. Journal of Women’s Health, 21(1): 1-3.
DeGue, Sarah, Tracy N. Hipp, and Jeffrey H. Herbst. (2016). Community-level approaches to prevent sexual violence. In Sexual Violence, Eds. Jeglic, E. L., & Calkins, C. (Eds.), pp. 161-179. Springer, Cham.
Flood, Michael. (2018). Mobilising Men. Chapter 8 in Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention. Palgrave Macmillan.URL: https://xyonline.net/content/new-book-engaging-men-and-boys-violence-prevention.
Fulu, E., A. Kerr-Wilson, and J. Lang (2014). What works to prevent violence against women and girls? Evidence Review of interventions to prevent violence against women and girls. Pretoria, South Africa: Medical Research Council. (See pp. 7-9)
Kerr-Wilson, A.; Gibbs, A.; McAslan Fraser E.; Ramsoomar, L.; Parke, A.; Khuwaja, HMA.; and Rachel Jewkes. (2020). A rigorous global evidence review of interventions to prevent violence against women and girls. Pretoria, South Africa: What Works to prevent violence among women and girls global Programme. (See pp. 28-30)
Lowe, H., Brown, L., Ahmad, A., Daruwalla, N., Gram, L., Osrin, D., . . . Mannell, J. (2022). Mechanisms for community prevention of violence against women in low- and middle-income countries: A realist approach to a comparative analysis of qualitative data. Social Science & Medicine, 305, 115064. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115064
Mannell, J., & Dadswell, A. (2017). Preventing intimate partner violence: Towards a framework for supporting effective community mobilisation. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 27(3), 196-211.
Michau, Lori. (2007). Approaching old problems in new ways: Community mobilization as a primary prevention strategy to combat violence against women. Gender and Development, 15(1), 95-109.
Guides and handbooks
Alexander-Scott, M., Bell, E., & Holden, J. (2016). Shifting social norms to tackle violence against women and girls (VAWG). London: VAWG Helpdesk, DFID.
Greig, Alan, with Jerker Edström. (2012). Mobilising Men in Practice: Challenging sexual and gender-based violence in institutional settings. Institute of Development Studies, Brighton: IDS.
HealthWest Partnership Victoria. (2020). Working Together with Men: How to create male allies for gender equity in your community. Melbourne: HealthWest Partnership Victoria.
Kim, M. (2005). The community engagement continuum: Outreach, mobilization, organizing and accountability to address violence against women in Asian and Pacific Islander Communities. Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence.
Michau, Lori, and Dipak Naker. (2003). Mobilising Communities to Prevent Domestic Violence: A Resource Guide for Organisations in East and Southern Africa. Kampala, Uganda: Raising Voices.
Seedat, M., Suffla, S., & Ward, C. (2016). Community-engaged violence prevention: Approaches and principles. Oxford Textbook of Violence Prevention: Epidemiology, Evidence, and Policy, 245-252.
Stern. E. (2021). Learning from practice: Community mobilization to prevent violence against women and girls. New York: UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women.
Suubi, T. (2022). Community activism toolkit to prevent violence against children: Implementing, inspiring, and strengthening community activism to prevent violence against children. Raising Voices. https://raisingvoices.org/resources/community-activism-toolkit-to-prevent-violence-against-children/
Townsend, S. M. (2017). Innovations in community-level prevention. Harrisburg, PA: National Sexual Violence Resource Center.
Further works
Abramsky, T., Devries, K. M., Michau, L., Nakuti, J., Musuya, T., Kyegombe, N., & Watts, C. (2016). The impact of SASA!, a community mobilisation intervention, on women’s experiences of intimate partner violence: secondary findings from a cluster randomised trial in Kampala, Uganda. J Epidemiol Community Health, 70(8), 818-825.
Abramsky, T., Devries, K., Kiss, L., Nakuti, J., Kyegombe, N., Starmann, E., Cundill, B., Francisco, L., Kaye, D., Musuya, T., Michau, M., & Watts, C. (2014). Findings from the SASA! Study: a cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of a community mobilization intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV risk in Kampala, Uganda. BMC Medicine, 12(1), 122.
Addo-Lartey, A. A., Ogum Alangea, D., Sikweyiya, Y., Chirwa, E. D., Coker-Appiah, D., Jewkes, R., & Adanu, R. M. (2019). Rural response system to prevent violence against women: methodology for a community randomised controlled trial in the central region of Ghana. Global health action, 12(1), 1612604.
Alaggia, R., & Wang, S. (2020). “I never told anyone until the# metoo movement”: What can we learn from sexual abuse and sexual assault disclosures made through social media? Child Abuse & Neglect, 103, 104312.
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Backer, T. E., & Guerra, N. G. (2011). Mobilizing communities to implement evidence-based practices in youth violence prevention: The state of the art. American Journal of Community Psychology, 48(1-2), 31-42.
Banyard, V. L., Edwards, K. M., Rizzo, A. J., Segura-Montagut, A., Greenberg, P., & Kearns, M. C. (2022). Mixed Methods Community-Engaged Evaluation: Integrating Interventionist and Action Research Frameworks to Understand a Community-Building Violence Prevention Program. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 0(0), 15586898221108013. doi:10.1177/15586898221108013
Banyard, V., Greenberg, P., Edwards, K., Mitchell, K. J., & Jones, L. (2021). Describing youth as actionists for peer sexual violence prevention: correlates of opportunity to act. Journal of Gender-Based Violence.
Bush, D.M. (1992). Women’s movements and state policy reform aimed at domestic violence against women: A comparison of the consequences of movement mobilization in the U.S. and India. Gender & Society, 6(4): 587-608.
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Chatterji, S., Stern, E., Dunkle, K., & Heise, L. (2020). Community activism as a strategy to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) in rural Rwanda: Results of a community randomised trial. Journal of Global Health, 10(1).
Clair, R. P., Brown, N. E., Dougherty, D. S., Delemeester, H. K., Geist-Martin, P., Gorden, W. I., Sorg, T., & Turner, P. K. (2019). #MeToo, sexual harassment: an article, a forum, and a dream for the future. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 47(2), 111-129. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2019.1567142
Clarke, J. A. (2019). The Rules of# MeToo. U. Chi. Legal F., 37.
Coram, V., Louth, J. and Goodwin-Smith, I. (2021) NO MORE: Developing a community mobilisation framework for family violence prevention. University of South Australia, Adelaide.
Corcione, D. (2018). The Shitty Media Men List is the# MeToo of toxic newsrooms: a failure to protect non-male freelance workers. Feminist Media Studies, 18(3), 500-502.
Das, A., and S.K. Singh. (2014) Changing Men: Challenging Stereotypes, Reflections on Working with Men on Gender Issues in India. IDS Bulletin, 45.1: 69–79.
De Benedictis, S., Orgad, S., & Rottenberg, C. (2019). # MeToo, popular feminism and the news: A content analysis of UK newspaper coverage. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 22(5-6), 718-738.
Edström, J., T. Shahrokh, and S.K. Singh. (2015) The New ‘MASVAW Men’: Strategies, Dynamics and Deepening Engagements. A Case Study of a Networked Approach to Challenging Patriarchy Across Institutions in Uttar Pradesh. Evidence Report 143, Brighton: IDS.
Edström, Jerker, Chimaraoke Izugbara, Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed and Phil E. Otieno, with Mia Granvik and Sarah Matindi. (2014). Men in Collective Action on SGBV in Kenya: A Case Study. Institute of Development Studies, Brighton: IDS.
Flood, M. (2014). Men’s Anti-violence Activism and the Construction of Gender-equitable Masculinities. In Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World, Eds. Àngels Carabí and Jose Armengol, Palgrave (pp. 35-50).
Flood, M. (2019). Men and# Metoo: Mapping Men’s responses to anti-violence advocacy. In # MeToo and the Politics of Social Change (pp. 285-300), Eds. B. Fileborn and R. Loney-Howes. Springer.
Ghadery, F. (2019). # Metoo—has the ‘sisterhood’finally become global or just another product of neoliberal feminism? Transnational Legal Theory, 10(2), 252-274.
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