ORCID Profile
0000-0003-4902-7776
Current Organisation
Flinders University
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Counselling, Welfare and Community Services | Social Work |
Families and Family Services | Children's/Youth Services and Childcare
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 12-2018
Abstract: This paper explores the ways in which particular forms of violence, namely violence against women and one-punch assaults, are framed in discourses of violence prevention in Australia. In denouncing certain acts, in iduals and groups, I show that condemnatory responses—what I refer to here as ‘tough talk’—serve to reinforce, rather than challenge, hierarchical (gendered, raced, classed) difference as normative. Based on assumptions that link violence to particular ‘types’ of men, such approaches overlook the nuance, complexity and contextual meanings of violence. Preventing violence, I argue, requires that we engage with cultures of violence by focusing less on some men’s violence, instead recognising the interconnectedness of gender and other hierarchies of identity as the critical context for violence.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-02-2017
Abstract: This article explores representations of gender and violence in Australia’s National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and Children. The Plan’s neglect of violence in the context of LGB relationships is discussed as indicative of the Plan’s implicit heteronormativity and its uncritical reliance on dominant discourses of gender and violence. In its failure to engage with the erse complexities of gender and violence, I argue that the Plan perpetuates the exclusion of certain bodies, identities and experiences, such that rights to protection and safety are reserved for some and not others.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2006
Abstract: In this article I present an overview of my observations and experiences as a ‘new’ academic, and reflect upon these within the broader context of theorizing about power, knowledge and expertise. There are, I believe, connections to be drawn between my experiences-of my discomfort with the identity ‘academic’ and my struggles to recognize myself as an academic-and conventional understandings of what properly constitutes credible and reputable academic knowledge. Although this is, at least in part, a profoundly personal exercise in reflection, it has wider implications in terms of the intersections between academia and professional practice, which, I argue, are critical to the future viability of social work as a strong, dynamic and distinct profession.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-10-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-07-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-08-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-04-2018
DOI: 10.1002/AJS4.37
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2003
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2012
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 08-09-2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 21-12-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-09-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-07-2017
Abstract: The White Ribbon c aign has come to occupy a central position in Australia’s efforts to address violence against women. This article critically examines key elements of the White Ribbon awareness-raising c aigns, paying particular attention to the conceptualisation of gender, masculinity, and equality. It is argued that White Ribbon’s reliance on a binary view of gender, together with its emphasis on the attitudes and acts of in idual men, contributes to the obscuration of men’s collective advantage. Acknowledging the intersectional positionings associated with hierarchies of power and privilege, this article calls for deeper engagement with the complexities of gender and violence a commitment to both engage with and transcend the interpersonal.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-12-2022
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-08-2021
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X211038998
Abstract: This article critically interrogates the ways in which men's talk about domestic and family violence (DFV) and change reproduce gender hierarchies which are themselves productive of violence. Drawing on interviews with men who have completed a perpetrator program and building on the work of Hearn (1998), we show that these men’s conceptualizations of change both reflect and contribute to the discursive construction of masculinity, responsibility, and violence. By reflecting on men’s representations of change—and of themselves as “changed” men—we argue that DFV perpetrator interventions constitute a key site for the performance of dominant masculinities, reproducing the gendered discourses underpinning and enabling men’s violence.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2009
Abstract: Based on the findings of an exploratory study this article focuses on the ways in which a group of South Australian practitioners, engaged in work with men who are violent towards their female partners, construct and understand male violence. Evident in the participants' understandings of violence is a tendency, firstly, to dichotomize violence into two `types' — that directed towards other men and that directed at women and, secondly, to categorize violence as either `normal'/ unremarkable (male-to-male violence) or gendered (`domestic' violence). In distinguishing between gendered violence and `other' violence, such as that between men in the public sphere, the latter is constructed as `ordinary' violence, worthy of intervention in only certain, `extreme' or excessive, circumstances. It is argued that these understandings, based upon a conflation of masculinity and violence, reflect the broader context of gendered power, disciplinary knowledge and expertise, and have significant implications for the ways in which male violence is explained and addressed, and, in the Australian context, the associated marginalization of domestic violence as an area of professional intervention.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-09-2019
Abstract: This article explores women’s experiences of the women’s safety services associated with a South Australian integrated program for male perpetrators of domestic and family violence. As small scale and exploratory, the study aimed to understand impact of such services on women’s perceptions of safety. Interviews were conducted by telephone, using a semi-structured format, with 14 women whose partners or ex-partners had been referred to a perpetrator intervention program. Informed by a feminist standpoint perspective, thematic analysis was used to explore each woman’s experience and perception of safety. The findings of the study suggest that integrated domestic and family violence programs can improve women’s feelings of safety through the application of practical safety planning, timely intervention, emotional support, and trauma-focused practice. Importantly, while the behaviors and actions of perpetrators were clearly relevant to women’s perceived safety, it was apparent that focusing on women’s strengths and capacity for recovery can significantly impact on their continued sense of safety and well-being. This article also reiterates the importance of women’s perspectives in evaluating the effectiveness of perpetrator interventions.
Start Date: 2021
End Date: 2024
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2021
End Date: 2024
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 03-2022
End Date: 02-2026
Amount: $284,215.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2022
End Date: 2025
Amount: $275,017.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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