Mischa Dekker- PhD
- Assistant Professor at Leiden University
Mischa Dekker
- PhD
- Assistant Professor at Leiden University
Assistant Professor at Leiden University, specialized in gender-based violence, policy, media, and politics.
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Comparison is ubiquitous in social life, yet some comparisons are far more common, institutionalized, and influential than others. Building on work in cultural sociology, we call these repertoires of comparison (RoCs). Institutionalized across one or more social fields, RoCs are employed at different levels of society (local, national, global) and...
What leads journalists to adopt feminist framings by linking news topics to gender-based inequalities? While scholarship often mobilizes individualized explanations, such as journalists’ personal beliefs, this article investigates how structural factors inform feminist journalism. It draws from Dutch and French media reports on street harassment an...
This paper shows how boys respond to harassment awareness training programs and analyzes how such audiences might fail to see street harassment as ‘their’ problem (therefore deflecting responsibility for sexual violence). It is based on ethnographic observations of street harassment awareness programs organized in France and interviews with their p...
Online and offline spaces where victims shared their experiences with street harassment were instrumental in putting this issue on the political agenda around the world. However, one question in particular sparked uneasiness among French activists: how to deal with stories that, in their view, reproduced stigmas about racialized men or disadvantage...
While racialized stereotyping in mass media is well-documented, sociological analysis of the journalistic practices and norms contributing to the production of such representations remains underdeveloped. We study these by analyzing media reporting on street harassment in the Netherlands, which frequently mentioned the racialized profiles of perpet...
De groeiende aandacht voor straatintimidatie heeft ertoe geleid dat gedragingen die voorheen als normaal werden beschouwd, nu ook op politiek niveau erkend worden als problematisch. Desondanks is er lokaal een aanzienlijke variatie in de definitie van straatintimidatie, en volgens critici werkt de focus op de straat stigmatisering in de hand.
Although we often speak about a global increase in awareness and policy on street harassment, in France, the issue was incorporated into a gender-based violence policy subsector, while Dutch policymakers avoided vocabularies pertaining to structural male domination. Differences in governmental campaigns on street harassment were the result not only...
The Penalization of Street Harassment and the Risk of Ethnic Profiling. A Pragmatic ‘Sociology of Critique’
Since 2014, several countries have introduced legislation to criminalize ‘street harassment.’ In France, this criminalization was framed within a feminist perspective, by conceiving of street harassment as the first level of a ‘continuum of v...
A Racist Measure? Negotiating the Risk of Stigmatisation in the Verbalisation of Street Harassment
Over the last few years, several countries have introduced legislation aiming to penalize “street harassment.” In France, these attempts are framed through an explicitly feminist perspective, defining street harassment as the first degree of a continu...
The occupation of public space has become a key part of the repertoire of contention of contemporary social movements, at the heart of Occupy Wall Street, Indignados, Nuit Debout, and revolutionary movements of the Arab Spring. Despite the enormous resonance that these movements have had, they have also engendered criticism. Based on in-depth ethno...
Dans les récentes campagnes de sensibilisation contre le harcèlement de rue, la critique des témoins, qualifiés de passifs, est constante. On retrouve souvent l’image d’un.e passant.e apathique, qui serait indifférent.e à l’agression, et on présente souvent la non-intervention des témoins comme une forme d’égoïsme, ou liée à la peur de subir soi-mê...
