The Trap of Proximity Violence - Ignazia Bartholini

The Trap of Proximity Violence

Research and Insights into Male Dominance and Female Resistance
Buch | Softcover
XII, 122 Seiten
2021 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-52453-1 (ISBN)
53,49 inkl. MwSt

This book aims at shifting the emphasis from a general vision of gender-based violence to a more opaque, yet equally destructive one, that related to "proximity violence".

The first type of violence is exercised in multiple situations and in the generality of relationships experienced by people involving others who are both strangers to and intimate with each other. Proximity violence provides and includes a fiduciary kind of "proximity", of "dependent intimacy", where the trust that the victim places in the other (her tormentor) favours the exercise of violence itself, allowing it to take place, thus making it practically imperceptible when not actually normal, in extreme cases.

In turn, this confidence is comparable to "a veil of Maja" which, in conditions of vulnerability typical of victims, attenuates the consequences of the violence undergone or the omens of what becomes violent action.

The conceptual triad: proximity violence, vulnerability, resistance-resilience is explored here, in the three main chapters and in the details aimed at identifying, in the final chapter, the mutual interconnections.

This book will be of particular interest and use to undergraduate and graduate students of sociology and gender studies


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Ignazia Bartholini is Associate Professor of Sociology at Palermo University and an RC 32 (Women and Society) board member of ISA (International Sociological Association).

In the last decade she has acted as visiting professor to some European universities. Her research focuses on gender-based violence and social policies for women. In the context of the research reported here, she was principal investigator of the many international research projects involved as well as being the author of numerous essays on the topic of migration, poverty, education where theoretical reflection and the hard facts of empirical investigation are combined. The terminological meaning of "proximity violence" as a particular form of violence against women is "hers". She focuses on the situational and cultural context correlations which migrants but also western women are victims


Chapter 1. Violence and proximity violence. Links and interpretative developments.- Chapter 2. Deception and abuse: manifold instances of proximity violence against Sub-Saharan women.- Chapter 3. Human Trafficking: the viscous link between vulnerability and proximity violence.- Chapter 4. Nostalgia and proximity violence: daily life and regressive mestizament.- Chapter 5. Violence through words: cultural aspects and performative agency.- Chapter 6. European Mediterranean women and the "showdown" between public emancipation and private self-oppression.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo XII, 122 p. 3 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 219 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Schlagworte Migrant Studies • Proximity Violence • Relationship Violence • Resilience • resistance • social deviance • Violence Against Women • vulnerability
ISBN-10 3-030-52453-1 / 3030524531
ISBN-13 978-3-030-52453-1 / 9783030524531
Zustand Neuware
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