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Responding to Violence: Narratives from Social Networks in Closed Relationships

Explore responses to interpersonal violence towards women using narrative analysis of social network reactions, offering new insights into victims' experiences and societal influences. This study sheds light on why victims stay, dynamics of abuse, and possible interventions.

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Responding to Violence: Narratives from Social Networks in Closed Relationships

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  1. Included or Excluded? Narratives of the Social Networks’ Responses to Women Exposed to Violence in Closed Relationships Margareta Hydén Linköping University

  2. Response-based Approaches to the Study of Interpersonal Violence:New Answers to Old Questions

  3. Interpersonal Violence • Violence towards women in close relationships • Child abuse • Child sexual abuse • Bullying • Gang violence

  4. Violence towards women in close relationships • Research concerning: • Incidence • Prevalence • Cause • Effect

  5. Questions • Why doesn’t she leave?

  6. Questions • Why doesn’t she leave? • Why is he violent?

  7. Questions • Why doesn’t she leave? • Why is he violent? • What can we do about it?

  8. Missing • Theoretical frame that takes responses to IPV into account

  9. Responses to Interpersonal Violence • Interpersonal Violence is embedded in social responses: • ”I hit her because I couldn’t stand her nagging” • Responded to socially by her social network, by the state etc. • Responses are contextually based

  10. Narrative analysis of responses to men’s violence towards women in close relationships • The study of battered women’s social network’s responses • 45 women interviewed about their social networks responses, using “the plate model” as a starting point for a narrative interview

  11. Narrative studies of responses to violence: New answers to old questions • Why doesn’t she leave? • Why is he violent? • What can we do about it?

  12. Response-basedapproaches to the studyof interpersonal violence internationalresearch network www.liu.se/riv margareta.hyden@liu.se

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