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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.
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How might we expand the frame of health narratives so as to avoid genre calcification and more effectively harness these stories' transformative potential? This essay builds on the continued success of the "Defining Moments" forum while responding to Harter et al.'s 2020 call for "new stories shaped and shared in novel ways." Drawing on interdisciplinary research and theorizing, I suggest three narrative strategies for storytelling based on, respectively, the extended duration of a health context, the agentic power of nonhuman kinds, and the implicit collectivity of polyphonic narratives. Brief examples precede my discussion of each strategy. I invite others to join me in shaping innovative narratives that further challenge tacit assumptions of embodied health.
