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Just How Do We Create Change?

Sites of Contradiction and the ‘Black Box’ of Change in Primary Prevention

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Preventing Sexual Violence

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When it comes to primary prevention of all forms of violence against women, including sexual violence, what is it that we seek to change? How can we help to generate this change, and why do we think certain methods of generating change will work better than others? In this chapter, I will argue that our understanding of these crucial questions is hampered by two interlinked contradictions inherent in much prevention work.

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  1. Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

    Gillian Fletcher (Research Fellow)

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  1. Department of Politics, Philosophy and Legal Studies, La Trobe University, Australia

    Nicola Henry (Senior Lecturer) (Senior Lecturer)

  2. RMIT University Melbourne, Australia

    Anastasia Powell (Lecturer in Justice & Legal Studies) (Lecturer in Justice & Legal Studies)

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Fletcher, G. (2014). Just How Do We Create Change?. In: Henry, N., Powell, A. (eds) Preventing Sexual Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137356192_7

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