RT Article
T1 Painting the Way Forward: An Ecological Cultural Visual Analysis of Anti-VAW Public Art in Rural Ecuador
JF Violence against women
VO 31
IS 5
SP 1344
OP 1364
A1 Kelly, James Pepper
A2 Cole, Elizabeth
A2 Sakazaki, Amy
A2 Herrera-Céspedes, Carolina
A2 Bates, Benjamin R.
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1919476229
AB Despite efforts within Ecuador to combat violence against women (VAW), the country still claims some of the highest rates of violence in the Americas. In this study, we complete a cultural visual analysis of anti-VAW public art in a small Ecuadorian city. Visual data is examined and interpreted by way of the social-ecological model (SEM). Specifically, our analysis considers how murals engage with the depiction of (a) VAW, (b) agentic responses to VAW, and (c) the different layers of the SEM. Our analysis identifies four specific strategies for constructing public art messaging to help achieve freedom from VAW.
K1 Public art
K1 cultural visual analysis
K1 social-ecological model (SEM)
K1 Ecuador
DO 10.1177/10778012241228289