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This book explores the use of the Clay Embodiment Research Method (CERM) in working with sex trafficked women in Nepal, creating an ethical methodology for self-empowerment and opening doors for further research. Suitable for students, scholars, and researchers in Gender Studies, Sociology, Health Studies, Anthropology, and Asian Studies.
List of contents
1. Introduction – being invited in; 2. The impact of patriarchy on women in Nepal: the vulnerability of sex trafficked women; 3. A feminist approach to sensitive research: the inspiration of critical ethnography and Participatory Action Research; 4. The development and implementation of the Clay Embodiment Research Method (CERM); 5. The ethical considerations of designing a new research method in a complex culture: Australian and Nepal perspectives; 6. The (im)practicalities of using clay in Nepal: mayhem and messiness; 7. The power of the Clay Embodiment Research Method: fun, fast, and dangerous; 8. Moving forward - Nepal and beyond.
About the author
Dr. Tricia Ong is a Lecturer in Career Education and a member of the Deakin Research for Violence Against Women hub at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. This is her first book. She has published on the multiplicity of stigma of sex-trafficked women in Nepal, clay as a medium in three-dimensional body-mapping, and on the impact of patriarchal norms on young, sex-trafficked women in Nepal. She has also written non-academic articles on women’s reproductive health issues.
Summary
This book explores the use of the Clay Embodiment Research Method (CERM) in working with sex trafficked women in Nepal, creating an ethical methodology for self-empowerment and opening doors for further research. Suitable for students, scholars, and researchers in Gender Studies, Sociology, Health Studies, Anthropology, and Asian Studies.
