Callaghan, J. (2014) Understanding agency and resistance strategies. Invited Keynote presented to: Seminari Interdisciplinar de Metodologia de Recerca Feminista (SIMReF) Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, 05 May 2014. (Unpublished)
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Invited Keynote) |
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| Abstract: | This paper takes a critical discursive and feminist perspective on psychological accounts of children who live in situations of domestic violence. Academic, popular and professional discourses around domestic violence tend to represent children and young people as passive witnesses and victims - as individuals who watch, who suffer from and who are damaged by the violence (e.g. Rivett and Howarth, 2006; Spilsbury et al, 2007). Our study explores the operation of discourses of damage in young people’s accounts of living with domestic abuse, as well their construction of counter discourses of agency, ability and capacity. This paper reflects on the methodological opportunities and challenges encountered in working with young people through individual interviews, and individual and group based photo voice processes, to explore their accounts of domestic abuse. In particular we explore the complexities of working with children to articulate perspectives that are often unvoiced in contemporary culture. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Domestic violence, interpersonal violence, children, research methods, creative methods, drawing, photovoice, resistance, agency, resilience |
| 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 H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology > HV697 Protection, assistance and relief > HV701 Children |
| Creators: | Callaghan, Jane |
| 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: |
Crime 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 > School of Social Sciences (to 2016) University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Health & Society > Psychology Faculties > Faculty of Health & Society > Psychology Research Centres > Centre for Psychology and Social Sciences |
| Date: | 5 May 2014 |
| Date Type: | Presentation |
| Event Title: | Seminari Interdisciplinar de Metodologia de Recerca Feminista (SIMReF) Symposium |
| Event Dates: | 05 May 2014 |
| Event Location: | Barcelona, Spain |
| Event Type: | Conference |
| Language: | English |
| Status: | Unpublished |
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| URI: | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/6612 |
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