Callaghan, J., Alexander, J., Fellin, L. and Sixsmith, J. (2014) Imaging agency and resistance: Photos and drawings in work with children in situations of domestic abuse. Invited Presentation presented to: The British Psychological Society, Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section (QMiP): Multiple Transformations of Qualitative Data, De Montfort University, Leicester, 11 April 2014. (Unpublished)
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Invited Presentation) |
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| Abstract: | Understanding Agency and Resistance Strategies is a four nation European project, exploring the stories of children and young people in situations of domestic abuse. Psychological research in this area tends to produce discourses of damage in relation to this group of young people, focusing on the psychopathological consequences of ‘witnessing’ abuse. Dominant discourses of these children position them as passive observers of abuse, wounded by the bad things they have seen. In contrast, our focus is on how children are able to cope with and resist oppressive practices in the family, and how they are able to constitute an agentic sense of self, despite the abuse they live with. Because narrating agentic and resistant subjectivities runs counter to dominant discursive constructions of childhoods lived in abuse, these can be difficult to articulate. Our project, therefore uses photo elicitation, drawing and other creative approaches, to enable young people to present more complex accounts of themselves, that perhaps extend beyond the category of ‘victim’. This enables young people to find alternative strategies to articulate the complex dynamics of family life, the embodied and spatial experiences of domestic abuse, and to provide non-normative accounts of resistance and resilience – what we term ‘paradoxical resilience’. In this paper, we explore an analysis of the images young people work with in their interviews with us. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | domestic abuse, domestic violence, children, photovoice, creative methods, qualitative methods, UNARS, Daphne |
| Subjects: |
H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Women > HQ767 Children. Child development B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology > BF712 Developmental psychology > BF723 Child psychology H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology > HV6001 Criminology > HV6251 Crimes and offences > HV6626 Family violence |
| Creators: | Callaghan, Jane, Alexander, Jo, Fellin, Lisa and Sixsmith, Judith |
| Funders or Sponsors: | European Commission (Daphne III) |
| Grant Reference Number: | JUST/2012/DAP-AG-3461 |
| Projects: | Understanding Agency and Resistance Strategies (UNARS) |
| Northamptonshire and East Midlands: |
Health Social Issues |
| Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: |
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > The Centre for Children and Youth University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Group > Social and Cultural Research in Psychology Group University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Health & Society University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > School of Social Sciences (to 2016) University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Health & Society > Psychology University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > Institute of Health and Wellbeing > Centre for Family Life Faculties > Faculty of Health & Society > Psychology Research Centres > Centre for Health Sciences and Services Research Centres > Centre for Psychology and Social Sciences |
| Date: | 11 April 2014 |
| Date Type: | Presentation |
| Event Title: | The British Psychological Society, Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section (QMiP): Multiple Transformations of Qualitative Data |
| Event Dates: | 11 April 2014 |
| Event Location: | De Montfort University, Leicester |
| Event Type: | Workshop |
| Language: | English |
| Status: | Unpublished |
| URI: | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/6583 |
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