Browsing by Autor "Amy E. Ritterbusch"

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Child Poverty in Colombia: Construction of a Multidimensional Measure Using a Mixed-Method Approach
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2014) Sandra García; Amy E. Ritterbusch
“Growing Up Guerreándola”: On Adolescent Formations of Conscientização in Colombia
(Western Michigan University, 2021) Amy E. Ritterbusch; Melissa Arena Lucía Simbaqueba Gómez; Jhon Restrepo; Nancy Montes; Claudia Rentería; Yirley Velazco; Sandra García Jaramillo; Darío Maldonado
In this article, we argue that we have much to learn from the adolescent developmental experiences of social justice activists on the frontlines. Our team of authors includes the four youth social leaders at the center of the empirical work emerging from our qualitative research. We ground the Freirean concept of conscientização, roughly interpreted in English as critical consciousness building, in the lived experiences of these four youth social leaders in Colombia who have fought tirelessly for justice in their communities. The social justice stories of these young activists emerge from semi-structured interviews including visual methods designed by our research team to identify key moments in these youth pathways of conscientização for social change. We conclude by urging the state, key organizational and individual actors of social movements and the academy to pay closer attention to the lives and lessons that youth social leaders can teach us about social change.
‘I feel safer in the streets than at home’: Rethinking harm reduction <i>for</i> women in the urban margins
(Taylor & Francis, 2020) Amy E. Ritterbusch; Eliana Lizeth Pinzon Niño; Ricardo Antonio Reyes Páez; Julie Pardo Triana; Daniela Jaime Peña; Catalina Correa-Salazar
Through qualitative data collected with women affected by drug use and drug-related violence in Bogotá, this article explores the convergence of harm reduction rationales and violence prevention programming in the urban margins to advocate for women's health empowerment and health rights as victims of intergenerational trauma and violence. We propose a methodological shift of public health praxis from street-based outreach models to intimate spaces of intervention for health outcomes embodiment <sup>1</sup> as we continue to develop our community health model to work with marginalised communities in the urban global South. Through this work committed to social justice in marginalised urban communities, we seek to support women's health needs through harm reduction in historically marginalised communities in urban settings. Our results expose how multi-level gender-based violence affects women's health in their living spaces in the urban margins. Drawing from women's voices and narratives of urban violence, we call for a feminist alternative to traditionally masculinist and public-space oriented harm reduction practice for health empowerment in the urban margins.
Mobilities at Gunpoint: The Geographies of (Im)mobility of Transgender Sex Workers in Colombia
(Taylor & Francis, 2016) Amy E. Ritterbusch
Drawing from geo-ethnographic data collected during a participatory action research (PAR) project funded by the National Science Foundation and subsequent research conducted in Colombia with marginalized youth populations, this article explores the sociospatial exclusion and (im)mobility of the oppressed, subjugated, and persecuted through the social cartographies, geo-narratives, and auto-photographic images of transgender sex workers that were displaced by paramilitary-led gender-based violence and forced to leave their birth cities and rural communities in Colombia at an early age. As is the case for thousands of victims of the armed conflict in Colombia, displaced transgender populations seek refuge and opportunity in the streets of Bogotá, Colombia. The (im)mobilities of transgender sex workers are explored in two stages—the forced, violent mobilities of their displacement, followed by their experiences of discrimination, sociospatial exclusion, and persecution through hate crimes and social cleansing killings on arrival in Bogotá. This article discusses how research actors constructed their own spaces of cohesion and resistance to the multifaceted discrimination and marginalization from mainstream urban society through PAR. The PAR project presented in this article continues as part of the broader struggle of transgender sex workers to challenge the exclusionary discourses and praxis that limit their mobilities and autonomy in the city. This article concludes with examples of how research actors use the action-driven elements of PAR to negotiate, analyze, and resist the relationships of power and violence embedded within their urban environment and begin to re-present and change the reality of their immobility within the city.
Who are the real targets of Bogota’s crackdown on crime?
(2017) Amy E. Ritterbusch