The rise of carceral feminism in Sweden: Analysing political debate and policy on men's violence against women

Lauri, Marcus; Carbin, Maria; Linander, Ida

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2023.102780

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“…Moreover, it distracts attention away from its own culpability and complicity in reinforcing the neoliberal security regimes that are based on increased surveillance and punitive techniques and that often target marginalised communities disproportionately. In doing so, it ends up band-wagoning rightwing, conservative political movements and narratives (Lauri et al 2023), such as 'being tough on crime' and retributive justice. While some carceral feminists may genuinely believe that harsher punishments are necessary to deter violence and protect women, they fail to recognise how their approach contradicts the feminist values of empowerment and social justice and how it may backfire by alienating potential allies, provoking resistance from perpetrators, or discouraging victims from reporting violence due to fear or stigma.…”

Section: Afflictive Condemnation As Slow Violencementioning

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Fatalistic normalisation, daunted managerialism and afflictive condemnation as forms of slow violence

Yetiş,

Bakırlıoğlu

2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Slow violence is an analytical concept that reveals the unseen and unrecognised forms of violence that accumulate over time and space, leading to devastating environmental and social consequences. This paper argues that slow violence involves discursive practices that render violence-producing mechanisms and processes invisible, concealed, and misrecognised and ensure the continuance of violent systems by hindering cognitive and emotional awareness of the links between different forms of violence and social harms, and thus, any potential resistance against them. These discursive practices are identified as fatalistic normalisation, daunted managerialism, and afflictive condemnation, all of which operate in tandem to veil the links between different forms of violence and social harm. The paper provides an operational framework of slow violence to help unveil these links and pave the way towards cognitive and emotional awareness for radical social transformation.

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Section: Afflictive Condemnation As Slow Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Fatalistic normalisation, daunted managerialism and afflictive condemnation as forms of slow violence

Yetiş,

Bakırlıoğlu

2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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The Only Path to Justice: The Criminal Legal System and Defamation Judgments Related to #MeToo in Sweden

Wegerstad,

Andersson

2024

Fem Leg Stud

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This article presents a study of court judgments involving women who, in connection with #MeToo, identified alleged perpetrators of sexual violence in social media and were later prosecuted for and convicted of criminal defamation in Sweden. We conceptualise the use of social media to share experiences of sexual violence as an informal path to justice. First, we show that this is supported by how court judgments describe women’s reasons for sharing their information, such as telling their story and sharing it with others. Second, according to Swedish defamation law, a truth defence is allowed only if the defamatory statement is first considered to be justifiable, balancing between the defendant’s interest of freedom of speech and the complainant’s interest of honour and reputation. We show that the courts did not assign the interest of speaking out about sexual violence such a significance that it would make the statement justifiable. In effect, the criminal justice system emerges as the only path to justice for victims of sexual violence, simultaneously making perpetrators invisible and victims responsible for telling without naming.

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The rise of carceral feminism in Sweden: Analysing political debate and policy on men's violence against women

Cited by 2 publications

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Fatalistic normalisation, daunted managerialism and afflictive condemnation as forms of slow violence

Fatalistic normalisation, daunted managerialism and afflictive condemnation as forms of slow violence

The Only Path to Justice: The Criminal Legal System and Defamation Judgments Related to #MeToo in Sweden

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