Understanding and preventing femicide using a cultural and ecological approach

Kouta, Christiana; Boira, Santiago; Nudelman, Anita; Gill, Aisha K.

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“…Another important understanding through the literature (Kouta et al 2018) is the socio-cultural dynamics influencing femicide, such as that cultural practices shape how femicide emerges within communities and countries, but also how women survivors remain trapped in the 'politicological' logic of femicide that creates a political-patriarchal prison for them denying them the right to live safe lives (Daher-Nashif 2022). Social and cultural factors, as much as economic and political, can increase risk of violence and death, exposing the interconnection between these elements and individual experiences.…”

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Ecofeminism and the Cultural Affinity to Genocidal Capitalism: Theorising Necropolitical Femicide in Contemporary Greece

Christou

2024

Social Sciences

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Resilient necrocapitalism and the zombie genre of representations of current dystopias are persistent in their political purpose in producing changes in the social order to benefit plutocracies around the world. It is through a thanatopolitical lens that we should view the successive losses of life, and this zombie genre has come to represent a dystopia that, for political purposes, is intended to produce changes in societies which have tolerated the violent deaths of women. This article focuses on contemporary Greece and proposes a theoretical framework where femicide is understood as a social phenomenon that reflects a global gendered necropolitical logic which equals genocide. Such theoretical assemblages have to be situated within intersectional imperatives and tacitly as the result of the capitalist terror state performed in an expansive and direct immediate death, exacerbated by the lingering slow social death of the welfare state. The article contends that the scripted hetero-patriarchal social order of the necrocapitalist state poses a unique political threat to societies. With the silence of the complicity of the state, what is necessary is the creation and spread of new political knowledge and new social movements as resilient political tactics of resistance. This article foregrounds an ecofeminist perspective on these issues and considers ways through which new pedagogies of hope can counter the gendered necropolitics of contemporary capitalism in Greece.

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Ecofeminism and the Cultural Affinity to Genocidal Capitalism: Theorising Necropolitical Femicide in Contemporary Greece

Christou

2024

Social Sciences

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“…We subscribe to a restrictive definition of femicides, as intimate-partner homicide (Dawson and Carrigan, 2021). Studying in depth the narrated emotions of perpetrators reveal some of underlying societal forces that shape these misogynistic homicides and make them a structural phenomenon – feminicide (Dawson and Carrigan, 2021; Kouta et al, 2018; Segato, 2018). We collate data from different Latin American countries, which we use to provide an analysis of the most common emotions involved in femicide.…”

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Fear, helplessness, pain, anger: The narrated emotions of intimate femicide perpetrators in Latin America

Di Marco,

Sandberg

2024

International Sociology

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While studies of femicide perpetrators have focused on background factors, such as criminal history and mental health conditions, little attention has been paid to their individual experiences. Perpetrators emotions and sense-making have often been overlooked and even dismissed. With a micro-sociological approach to violence, we identify the narrated emotions involved in the perpetration of intimate femicide. The data gathered are based on 33 open-ended interviews with convicted male perpetrators from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Honduras, Mexico, and Venezuela. We identify four main emotions reflecting participants’ experiences of femicide: Fear, expressed through stories of women as threats to self, family, and community; helplessness, expressed through stories of men being trapped, judged, and persecuted; and pain, connected to stories of jealousy and belittlement. These lead to anger, expressed through stories of bodily reactions and losing control. The findings indicate that intimate femicide perpetrators resort to lethal violence to regulate self-worth and remediate actions they feel were disruptive. Our research demonstrates the importance of embodied and narrated emotions to understand femicides. We argue that viewing femicide as a product of a shared pervasive emotional economy highlights the role of emotions in maintaining a gendered social order.

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“…It has been estimated that approximately one in four women worldwide have been victims of IPV ( World Health Organization [WHO], 2021 ), as such the WHO has repeatedly emphasized the need of actions to prevent violence against women ( WHO, 2019 ). Risk factors for IPV can be found at multiple levels simultaneously: societal, community, relationship, and individual level, as such, interventions aiming to prevent IPV need to exist on multiple levels ( Fulu & Miedema, 2015 ; Kouta et al, 2018 ). Individual-level risk factors; for example psychological or biological traits, psychological that influence the risk of becoming a perpetrator, is the focus of present study.…”

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Treatment Experiences Among Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators: A Qualitative Analysis

Arvidsson

Caman

2022

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global and widespread public health issue. Knowledge on what promotes individual-level reductions in risk for IPV recidivism is limited. In order to explore how group therapy influences the ability to obtain and sustain change, the objectives were to explore how IPV perpetrators make sense of and think about their experiences of group therapy and what their experiences are regarding needs of treatment for IPV perpetration. Six semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed with the qualitative method Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Two main themes were identified; “Experiences in group therapy” (subthemes: Ultimatum as a turning point; The guys as a powerful tool for change and Unfinished ending) and “Treatment needs” (subthemes: Violence as an addiction and Weakness as a strength). The findings highlight that group therapy is experienced positively, as well as difficulties that constitute obstacles, and need of further support after ending treatment.

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Understanding and preventing femicide using a cultural and ecological approach

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Ecofeminism and the Cultural Affinity to Genocidal Capitalism: Theorising Necropolitical Femicide in Contemporary Greece

Ecofeminism and the Cultural Affinity to Genocidal Capitalism: Theorising Necropolitical Femicide in Contemporary Greece

Fear, helplessness, pain, anger: The narrated emotions of intimate femicide perpetrators in Latin America

Treatment Experiences Among Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators: A Qualitative Analysis

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