Meta-analysis of research on gender violence: the state producing knowledge

Abstract

This paper provides a meta-analysis (quantitative/qualitative) empirical research on gender violence or violence against women, made in Spain in the period 2005 to 2012. Through it has been found to control this device to know the state. Control is exercised: usurping the role of direct research (specifically analyze the case of the Macro Institute of Women); imposing certain theoretical and methodological constraints in the research process and even introducing their agents openly part of university research teams. Political interference is never free for long disguise who wants justify intervening effectively. In short, this article makes visible the lack of scientific autonomy derived from state control (regardless of the political color of the government of the day) on research on gender violence in Spain.