The concept and the name of Isolating Gender Violence

Ana Vidu; Lidia Puigvert; Ramon Flecha; Garazi López de Aguileta

doi:10.17583/generos.2021.8622

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Ana Vidu Deusto University
Lidia Puigvert University of Barcelona
Ramon Flecha University of Barcelona
Garazi López de Aguileta University of Wisconsin-Madison

https://doi.org/10.17583/generos.2021.8622

Keywords:

isolating gender violence

dialogic research

social impact

co-creation

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In December 2020, the Catalan Parliament approved by unanimity the world’s first legislation of the concept of Isolating Gender Violence (IGV); in 2021, several parliaments are developing their own legislations. The elaboration of this concept and later this name has been a long and dialogic process among diverse scientists, policymakers, governments, parliaments, victims, survivors, social organizations and citizens. Since 2016, CREA (Community of Research on Excellence for All) has developed a process of elaborating the concept of IGV oriented to obtain the scientific, policy and social impact required to make a key contribution to overcoming gender violence. This process was simultaneous to the elaboration by the same researchers of the criteria of policy and societal impact of the EU’s scientific programme of research (Horizon Europe). This paper presents this dialogic research conducted to get the concept and the name IGV and the consequences of this concept along scientific, policy and social impact. The results show that the key for getting the name and the impacts of this scientific robust concept has been three of the main characteristics of the present EU research program Horizon Europe: the priority of social impact, the co-creation of knowledge between scientists and citizens and sustainability.

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