Langauge and Violence: Analysis of Four Discursive Operations

Coates, Linda; Wade, Allan

doi:10.1007/s10896-007-9082-2

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“…I am not using perpetrator and victim as identity categories, or to reify any person as a perpetrator or as a victim. Critically engaging with language is required because language can often be used to obscure violence and abuses of power (Coates & Wade, 2007;2004).…”

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"Leaning In" as Imperfect Allies in Community Work

Reynolds¹

2013

NCETP

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The work of allies in community work is informed by justice-doing and decolonizing practice. A brief description of being an ally is outlined here, as well as understandings of the importance of the concepts of fluidity and groundless solidarity in ally work. "Leaning in" is described and offered as a way to invite accountability while resisting righteousness. "Leaning in" invites collective accountability, which is a more useful concept than personal responsibility, which sides with individualism and the idea we are only held accountable for our personal actions. Strategies for being an ally are considered, including engaging with a hopeful skepticism while reflexively questioning whether we are "walking the talk." The limitations of allies are discussed, as well as the need to make repair for our failures as allies. Strategies for resisting both unity and division are addressed, as is the possibility of creating cultures of critique that allow for something other than attack and division. Imperfect solidarity based on points of connection is offered as a useful strategy for maintaining good-enough and required alliances across time. Finally, some exercises are offered for readers to engage with: an inquiry into their histories and imperfect practices of being and needing allies, and some invitations to step into domains where they have previously not served as allies. Keywordsally, community work, leaning in, power, privilege, fluidity, imperfect solidarity Authors' NoteThis work is profoundly collaborative and owes much to a diversity of activists who have been in imperfect solidarity with me across time. Graeme Sampson and Sherry Simon, practicum graduate students from the Adler School of Professional Psychology, critiqued the ally exercises and contributed to their usefulness. Thanks to WAVAW for allowing me to reproduce a version of "Story from the 20 Bus," which originally appeared in their newsletter. Sid Chow Tan, Andrew Larcombe, Paka Ka Liu, Aaron Munro, Tod Augusta-Scott, Jeff Smith, Allan Wade, and John Winslade offered generative and expansive critiques that improved this work. Mr. Peaslee helped again.

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"Leaning In" as Imperfect Allies in Community Work

Reynolds¹

2013

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“…This occurs through processes such as mutualisation, use of euphemisms, and normalisation (Coates and Wade, 2007). Using distorting language serves to conceal a number of important factors:…”

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“…(Coates and Wade, 2007) Victims generally resist violence and abuse, dependent upon their level of perceived risk and fear. Victims are acutely aware that any defiant acts will be matched by an increase in the perpetrator's violence (Caldwell et al, 2009).…”

Section: Distortion Of Who Did What To Whommentioning

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Becoming better helpers: rethinking language to move beyond simplistic responses to women experiencing intimate partner violence

Wilson¹,

Smith²,

Tolmie³

et al. 2015

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The prevalence of family violence is a persistent challenge facing New Zealand. Its effects are pervasive, spanning multiple levels: individuals, family/wha -nau, communities, and society in general. A major challenge in effectively addressing family violence is the apparent disconnect that exists between the various agencies and services that interact with families/wha -nau where abuse has become a defining feature of their lives. Despite efforts by agencies to become more collaborative, they tend to function in silos. In conducting a series of death reviews the Family Violence Death Review Committee has found agency records to reveal a lack of shared understanding of intimate partner violence as a gendered problem. The records misconstrue victims' and perpetrators' roles and convey distorted notions about the realities of victims' lives and the context of the violence they suffer. This leads to practices that put victims and their children at further risk. In this article we discuss findings related to the use of language and the concept of empowerment that need to be critically considered by those working with victims and perpetrators and those planning and designing family violence responses and services.

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“…Focusing interventions on the individuals who are seeking support, requiring that they alone change can serve to further marginalize people who are already living in the margins (Reynolds, 2002). Within the social services in particular, the importance of acknowledging the social nature of individual struggles is increasingly recognized (Coates & Wade, 2007;Reynolds, 2002). Viewing individuals in isolation from their political and social contexts is not only potentially ineffective in working through difficulties, but according to Clarke (2005) it is based on a fallacy.…”

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Seeking Solutions Without Centering Problems: From Research to Practice

Newbury¹,

Hoskins

2012

IJCYFS

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Abstract:While it is often a commitment to social justice ideals that bring people to the helping professions as practitioners, our theories and approaches to care are often serviceoriented and expert-driven. Such an orientation to helping often focuses more on individual change -that is, changing those who are experiencing difficulties -than it does on systemic or collective change. The current article offers one very accessible possibility for practitioners who have adolescent clients. By incorporating photo elicitation into the helping relationship, the social nature of "social" problems can be acknowledged and attended to, gently nudging the boundaries of practice in a way that is more contextualized, centering possibilities rather than problems.

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Langauge and Violence: Analysis of Four Discursive Operations

Cited by 82 publications

References 19 publications

"Leaning In" as Imperfect Allies in Community Work

"Leaning In" as Imperfect Allies in Community Work

Becoming better helpers: rethinking language to move beyond simplistic responses to women experiencing intimate partner violence

Seeking Solutions Without Centering Problems: From Research to Practice

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