School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Soc Sci Med. 2021 Oct;287:114401. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114401. Epub 2021 Sep 15.
The abduction and sexual violation of adolescents, especially in township contexts, has increasingly made headlines in South Africa. These incidents are evocative of jackrolling, a phenomenon that plagued townships during the apartheid upheavals in the late 1980s. The abduction of adolescents on their school journeys has been reported in several South African townships. In this paper, we report on a study in which we used participatory visual methods (i.e., cellphilms: short videos made with cellphones) to explore how 19 adolescent girls and boys living in the Inanda, Ntuzuma, and KwaMashu (INK) township precinct, outside Durban reflected on their vulnerability to sexual violence. Although the question was broad, our analysis of the visual data suggests that adolescents believed that their vulnerability to abduction and rape was almost inevitable. As such, in their cellphilms, they chose to portray their risk and vulnerability to abduction, rape, and even murder on their daily journeys to and from school. We found that through this methodology, adolescents were able to illustrate and/or articulate their fear of sexual violence. For them, violence was an inescapable reality that created fear and helplessness. This underscores the need for interventions, including the provision of safe scholar transport and visible policing in the community.
青少年被诱拐和性侵犯的事件，尤其是在乡镇地区，在南非越来越受到关注。这些事件让人联想到“jackrolling”，这是 20 世纪 80 年代种族隔离时期困扰乡镇地区的一种现象。在南非的一些乡镇，有报道称青少年在上学途中被诱拐。在本文中，我们报告了一项研究，我们使用参与式视觉方法（即 cellphilms：用手机制作的短视频）来探讨生活在德班郊外因万达、恩图扎马和夸马舒（INK）乡镇区的 19 名青少年男女如何看待自己易受性暴力侵害的问题。虽然问题很广泛，但我们对视觉数据的分析表明，青少年认为自己易受诱拐和强奸的可能性几乎是不可避免的。因此，在他们的 cellphilms 中，他们选择描绘自己在往返学校的日常旅程中被诱拐、强奸甚至谋杀的风险和脆弱性。我们发现，通过这种方法，青少年能够说明和/或表达他们对性暴力的恐惧。对他们来说，暴力是一种无法逃避的现实，会造成恐惧和无助。这突显了需要采取干预措施，包括提供安全的学者交通和在社区中进行可见的治安。
