Discussion Of Violence Research Articles

Media discourses of intimate partner violence in Queensland newspapers

Media discourse has a profound effect on public opinions. Prior research, the majority of which has been conducted internationally, shows that print media constructions of intimate partner violence (IPV) operate within a patriarchal framework which normalizes and constructs men’s violence against women as acceptable. This research explored Queensland’s print media representation of IPV. Results show that the reporting of IPV is episodic, sensationalistic, prone to perpetrator sympathizing, and fails to contextualize IPV as an ongoing pattern of intentionally abusive behaviour.

Relationality, Resistance and Mimicry: Towards an Alternate Discourse of Violence and Victimhood from the North East of India

Relationality, Resistance and Mimicry: Towards an Alternate Discourse of Violence and Victimhood from the North East of India

Reducing Language Barriers to Domestic Violence

The instrumentalist approach refuses to illustrate or analyze in detail the complex relationship between aggression and language in subordinating abuse. Collective Aggression Politics, which makes collective violence a form of "controversial politics." Violence as "a kind of dialogue" containing systems where different groups make claims against each other and where the targets of those claims are likely to give rise to violent reactions. Debate centers on a shift from a peaceful to a violent discourse in which they live, throughout, under the heading of divisive politics.

Spinoza and musical power

ABSTRACTIn one of the few places in which musical experience is discussed in Spinoza’s Ethics, it is used as a means of exemplifying the ways in which an entity, in itself, is not ‘good or evil’: it is neither, or both, depending on the relations into which it enters with other bodies. In this article, I consider what a Spinozist theory of musical power might entail. I argue that the particular, immanent and materialist notions of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ that can be found in Spinoza’s work and are exemplified via music enable a departure from both ‘aesthetic moralism’ and ‘aesthetic relativism’. With reference to contemporary discourses of musical violence, as well as Pauline Oliveros’ praxis of Deep Listening, I assert that Spinoza makes space for music’s ethico-affective ambivalence. Drawing attention to Spinoza’s citation of deaf experiences of music, I also consider the extent to which a Spinozist model of musical power allows for ‘auraldiversity’. In doing so, I aim to demonstrate the ways in which musical experience might exemplify some of the key tenets of Spinoza’s thought.

The Public Accounts of a ‘Private’ Act: Domestic Violence in the Eyes of Mamelodi, a South African Township

Domestic violence against women is a serious social and public health problem facing women in South Africa and other countries. This social malaise in South Africa is often seen as “private” – committed within the home space, or “imperceptible” to the public. In other words, domestic violence is framed as a phenomenon that takes place exclusively behind the closed doors of the home. This study contends with this notion of “imperceptibility” in the domestic violence discourse. Using qualitative data from Mamelodi, a black township in Pretoria, South Africa, this paper argues that the notion of imperceptibility is reductionist and helps to perpetuate the act. The commission of domestic violence does not only take place in the privacy of the home; it is also committed in public, and it is visible to the community where it takes place.

The Somatechnics of Breath: Trans* Life at this Moment in History: An Interview with Susan Stryker

ABSTRACTIn this interview, trans* studies historian and theorist Susan Stryker reflects on the possibilities of trans*-breath-as-revolution and the reality of trans* lives in the wake of the Trump election, originally discussed in a keynote lecture given for the 10th International Somatechics Conference in December 2016. Speaking two years after presenting the keynote, Stryker describes how ‘breath’, as well as discourses of violence, oppression and resistance inform her new book, What Transpires Now: Transgender Histories and Futures in the Present Tense. This interview also discusses: the visibility and increased targetability of trans* people; discourses of colonialism and biopower; the phenomenology of breath; new materialism and neovitalism; and queer philosophies of life.

Introduction: Locating Feminism in Asian Diasporas

Introduction:Locating Feminism in Asian Diasporas Lili Shi1 (bio) and Yadira Perez Hazel2 (bio) Let us begin by telling the story behind our cover art, how we think diasporic life is captured in a ghost position that orients our special issue, and how our repositioning of the ghost artwork acts metaphorically as our feminist agentive move to invite specific ways of reading and looking. Why Asian diasporas? Why ghosts? How does the ghostliness of diaspora play into the ways we interrogate the nation and transnationalism, critique imperialism and empire, and reimagine the diasporic past, present, and future? And simultaneously, how does the ghostliness of diaspora engage feminism, gender, and sexuality? And beyond popular discourses of oppression and violence, how does a ghostly diasporic position hold feminist temporal and spatial possibilities for agency and resistance? An amazingly creative project published in Asian American Literary Review, guest edited by Mimi Khúc in 2016, Open in Emergency: A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health presents a deck of Asian American tarot cards, "featuring original art and text revealing the hidden contours of Asian American lives" (Asian American Literary Review 2016). In this deck, The Ghost tarot card captures an important affective and discursive trope of Asian diasporic existence as a ghostliness that we chose to visually represent our special issue. As widely studied across academic disciplines, the ghost has been an important allegorical emblem in Asian diasporas' experiences and histories (e.g., Cheng 2001; Cho 2008; Gordon 2008; Mimura 2009; Langford 2013). As one of our pieces (Liu, this issue) articulates, the "ghostly position" represents the uniquely racialized subjectivity that Asian diasporas occupy, with "loss of origin and perpetual ghostly emptiness of racial otherness." Our collection of works in this special issue [End Page 13] inherits the diasporic ghostliness, yet with an explicitly feminist analytics. We engage Braziel and Mannur's proclamation that diaspora, as an important category of critical analysis, is always "inseparable, epistemologically or historically, from inquiries of race, gender, class, and sexuality" (2003, 5). We propose a feminist diasporic position, the feminist ghostliness, to examine Braziel and Mannur's underpinning, one that invites disruptive temporal and spatial possibilities of viewing travel, time, space, and belonging in resistance to normative nationalist and masculinist understandings of such in moments of transnationality and postcoloniality. Click for larger view View full resolution Fig 1. The Ghost, by Simi Kang, text by Shawna Yang Ryan, first published in Open in Emergency: A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health (AALR volume 7, issue 2, Fall/Winter 2016), guest edited by Mimi Khúc. On our cover, we turned the vertical card sideways, placing it horizontally to capture the poetics of this issue: the disruption of spatial and geographical politics, and the subversion of the oppositional, up-and-down hierarchy between past and present, here and there, memory and present, dream and reality. Such subverted spatial politics refuse to prioritize any specific diasporic points of lineage or transgression, but compel the [End Page 14] readers to look at them holistically, side by side (e.g., hanging bodies are now floating, trees now grow sideways), preventing things from "falling through" in the endless continuation of diasporic historicity and futurity, a feminist agentic interruption of looking at the ghost. In so doing, we honor and ask the question from the tarot card's text: "How have the forces of history [and, we add, future] brought you to this moment?" Transnational Feminist Diasporas as Rejection to Nationalism The idea of this special issue evolves from Lili Shi's experience in summer 2016. A group of faculty at the City University of New York led by Soniya Munshi, Caroline Hong, Linta Varghese, and Jennifer Hayashida initiated a year-long program called "Building Asian American Studies" (BAAS) across CUNY classrooms. As participants trained in different disciplines, we discussed "Asia," "America," and "diaspora" in the contexts of world events and movements such as Brexit, the inauguration of Trump, world refugee crises, and other global concerns. We became increasingly anxious over the popular discourses that embolden the problematic binary and antagonistic thinking of national vs. alien, citizen vs. noncitizen, home vs. displaced, belonging vs. nonbelonging, and authentic vs. tainted...

Can Rescue Narratives Save Lives? Honor Killing in Pakistan

AbstractThis essay closely examines the gendered discourse of shame, honor, violence, and sexuality as played out in Pakistan. The first half of the essay contextualizes the epistemological melee t...

A pilot discussion of critical discourse studies on the gender (violence) discourse

A pilot discussion of critical discourse studies on the gender (violence) discourse

TRANSFORMATION OF IDEOLOGY AS FAULT LINE IN STATE STRUCTURE OF PAKISTAN

The development of ideologies in re-construction and transformation of the Indian subcontinent during and after its division into new nation states in 1947emerged as the fault lines in its structural and organizational imbalances, which is an interesting phenomenon and at times led to the violent and radical political discourses. This ideological transformation became imbalanced, due to the exploitation by opportunists in state and political elements, through consciously planned attitude especially in dogma, religious traditions, ethnicity and political/state governance thereby fulfilling ulterior motives. Resultantly, violence and conflicts emerged in both the fragile states of the Indian subcontinent besides undergoing a series of dictatorship, one party rule, manipulation of elites, and ethnic or national polarization ultimately leading to the weak governmental structure. This research was aimed at ascertaining both at theoretical and practical levels, the causes of intricacies involved in transformation of religious ideology into a fault line besides suppressing ethnic and identity markers of traditional society like Pakistan, exploiting the structural organization of political governments through state/bureaucratic regimes. It was discovered that this transformation became such due to the indulgence of state elements and their practices besides illiberal democratic governments, which were also leading to the violence and militancy where ideology/religion has been used for parochial political interests embodied in desires to hang on to power. Henceforth, the power made the dismemberment of joint Pakistan in post-1971era, whereas continuously challenged the fragile integrity after 1971.

Reading Discourses of Power and Violence in Emerging Kashmiri Literature in English: The Collaborator and Curfewed Night

This essay studies two literary texts on Kashmir, The Collaborator (2011) by Mirza Waheed and Curfewed Night (2010) by Basharat Peer and analyzes the discourses of power, overt forms of violence that the works present. It first contextualizes events from the last three years that have occurred in Kashmir to present forms of violence Kashmiri subjects undergo in the quotidian of life. The essay, thus, argues that the selected literary works represent Kashmir as a unique postcolonial conflict zone that defies an easy terminology to understand the onslaught of violence, and the varied forms of power. As analyzed in the article, one finds a curious merging of biopolitics and necropolitics that constructs the characters as “living dead” within this emergency zone. For this, the theoretical trajectory of the essay is mapped out to show the transition from Foucault and Agamben’s idea of biopolitics to Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics. Thereafter, essay concludes how the two texts illustrate Agamben’s notion of the bare life is not enough to understand subjects living in this unique postcoloniality. The presence of death and the dead bodies go beyond bare life and shows how that bodies become significant signifiers that construct a varied notion of agency.

Armed with real guns: student unions, student identity, and violence in Côte d’Ivoire

ABSTRACTAfrican higher education has been the site of repeated contestations over identity. Higher education institutions, as spaces made up of individuals claiming a diversity of identities, are susceptible to conflict when identities are influenced by politicians and paramilitary groups seeking to advance their political agendas on campus through the use of ethnic, religious, and nationalist rhetoric. This qualitative case study of a university in Côte d’Ivoire explored how students engaged in violent political student union activities on campus constructed and enacted their identities through the lens of self-authorship. Findings suggest that student identities are context-dependent and change according to the observer; that self-authorship is difficult due to highly politicized external formulas and social structures; and that, without student support services, vulnerable students may succumb to violent identity enactment and discourse mechanisms.

Constructions of home: the politics of lesbian world making in Cape Town

Two dominant, contrasting, narratives have come to characterise public discourse on queer sexualities in Cape Town. Cape Town is often touted as the gay capital of South Africa, while simultaneously, ‘the black lesbian’ is brought into view through a discourse of discrimination, violence and death. This article explores lesbian, queer and gay women’s narratives of their everyday lives in Cape Town. Based on 23 semi-structured in-depth interviews and two focus groups, the participants’ counter narratives reveal how they ‘make’ Cape Town home in relation to racialized and classed heteronormativies. Their productions of symbolic home are read through the modes of embedded lesbianism; homonormativity and borderlands. Their material homes are constructed as sites of identity, community building and belonging; and as sites of political education and public consumption, which stretches their meanings of home to ‘homeplace’. Lesbian queer life worlds are ephemeral, contingent and fractured, making known hybrid, contrasting and competing narratives of the city.

‘Acheronta movebo’

AbstractThis paper addresses Naomi Alderman's The Power (2016), a (post‐)feminist dystopia where gender roles are reversed after what is called ‘the Cataclysm’. Being victims of male chauvinism, young girls develop the ability to emit an electrical charge through their hands, ‘the power’, which they use against their potential aggressors. One of these girls, Allie, uses it to start a violent female theocracy, not less violent and problematic than the patriarchy it fights against. The Power puts forward a stimulating debate on the justifiability and legitimacy of violence to combat violence. The novel, the paper contends, recasts the poetics and politics of 1990s cyberfeminism to meet new concerns, particularly the discourses of violence and otherness in the context of the twenty‐first‐century political crisis. To prove it, Rosie Braidotti's analysis of cyberfeminism is addressed first, to delve later into how The Power updates Slavoj Žižek's (Violence. London, UK: Profile Books, 2009), Walter Benjamin's (Selected writings. Vol. 1, 1913–1926. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996, pp. 249–251) and Hannah Arendt's (On violence, New York, NY: Harcourt, 1970; The origins of totalitarianism. New York, NY: Harcourt, 1976; On revolution. New York, NY: Penguin Books 1977) conceptions of violence and revolutionary rage.

What is the problem? Representations of men's violence against women in a Swedish context

Abuse and violence against women is not only a serious violation of human rights, but is also, according to the Swedish government, the most acute and greatest obstacle to a gender-equal society. The aim of the current study was to investigate discourses that govern social work practice in Sweden analysed discourses of violence against women in five Swedish public working guidelines using Carol Bacchi’s social constructivist analytical approach What's the Problem Represented to Be? Our findings show that violence is framed in the guidelines within a heterosexual context and is represented as an individual problem of women within close relations and families. This framing also promotes a division between violence against Swedish-born women and violence against foreign-born women. The analysis also shows that equality seems to be more about the inclusion of men rather than looking after women's situations. How violence against women is understood will affect how violence can be predicted, prevented, and treated, and thus there is a risk that these representations might affect women subjected to violence differently depending on how social workers interpret and apply these guidelines. Our findings also suggest that these representations maintain gender hierarchies and other structural and societal inequalities and ignore violence against women as a major global social problem.

Discourses of Exclusion: The Societal Securitization of Burma’s Rohingya (2012–2018)

The contemporary persecution of Burma’s Rohingya has rapidly evolved from isolated episodes of communal violence into a global humanitarian crisis. The article analyses the evolution of the recent violence in Rakhine State from 2012 to the present. Specifically, I argue that Buddhist nationalist monks, including members of the ‘969’ Movement and Ma Ba Tha, in concert with the Burmese government, have acted as authoritative voices in society, depicting the Rohingya ethno-religious group as an existential threat to the country’s majority Buddhist population. As such, hate-filled rhetoric has provided a politically unstable Burmese regime with an ideological justification for human rights abuses committed in Rakhine State. This phenomenon is analysed through Barry Buzan and Ole Waever’s securitization thesis as a means of better understanding the discursive relationship among Buddhist nationalist monks, the Burmese government and the Burmese Buddhists. Ontologically, this article focuses on anti-Rohingya discourse and major episodes of violence in western Burma’s Rakhine State from 2012 to 2018. As a discursive process, securitization has not merely amplified Islamophobia within Burma, but significantly endangers future generations of Rohingya civilians.

Understanding the ways missing and murdered Indigenous women are framed and handled by social media users

The media plays a large role in facilitating negative racial and gender ideologies about Indigenous women. In Canada, as we struggle with the national crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW), researchers have collected data from social media (SM) and identified that subversive texts about Indigenous women perpetuate a racialized violent discourse. Given that many Indigenous peoples, including Indigenous youth, have smart phones and/or other ways to access SM they too are exposed to the discourse that subjugates, vilifies and dehumanizes Indigenous women, many of whom are family or community members. Our research investigates the messages shared on #MMIW and identifies a reframing by hashtag users. The results assist in understanding how SM plays a role in perpetuating stereotypes about Indigenous peoples but also how SM can be used to mitigate those messages.

Repräsentationen von Gewalt und Gegengewalt im Werk Christoph Heins: eine diskursive Analyse

Representations of Violence and Counter-Violence in Christoph Hein’s Work: A Discourse Analysis
 Violence is generally defined as a daily phenomenon of human reality, which nowadays comes in different forms, involving verbal abuse, and which concerns all cultures and social classes. Violence is also a constitutive dimension in the work of the German author Christoph Hein. Regarding its universal importance and its presence in various discourses (literary and non-literary ones), but also its discursive and counter-discursive forms, the present article aims to de- and/or reconstruct different types of violence discourses, articulated and represented in the author's fictional texts. The prose of the author Christoph Hein is the main corpus of the present article. The representativeness of violence in fiction undeniably stems from a transcultural reflection, which does not only take into account the real and primary forms of violence (especially patriarchal), but also its sometimes invisible or even non-verbal mechanisms.

Discourse After a Batterer Intervention Program: A Qualitative Analysis of "Letters From the Future".

This exploratory study employs discourse and narrative analysis to assess men's ( n = 45) responses to a writing assignment completed at the end of a solution-focused voluntary batterer intervention program. The study finds that the men primarily use the assignment to reassure themselves of their future success, defined through traditionally male paradigms. The narrative analysis then divides the letters according to type: Participants (22.7%) use a "transformative" discourse of behavior change and intimate partner violence (IPV)-sustaining discourse (18.2%), but the plurality (38.6%) use both simultaneously. The ideological conflict demonstrated in these responses highlights how IPV-sustaining discourse is embedded within broader sociocultural discursive structures.

Palabras como armas

Un discurso violento detona violencia. Una canción que proclama disparos podría generar genocidios. En este artículo, Susan Benesch destaca el poder de la palabra tanto de los opresores como de los oprimidos como armas sutiles a la hora de violar derechos. El ejemplo de Malema cuando cantó Dubulu iBhunu, un himno histórico contra el apartheid en África, guía este relato en el que convergen numerosos campos de batalla lingüísticos.