‘Seeing’ gender, war and terror

Walklate, Sandra

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“…Perhaps this is no surprise given criminology’s history of ignoring studies which have women as their focus (Daly & Chesney-Lind, 1988; Cook, 2016). It also echoes the discipline’s tendency to see violence in the street, in the home, and by the state as “separate and separable” (Walklate, 2018, p. 621). Criminology’s failure to engage with Ireland’s gendered mass confinement may also relate to the perceived geographic irrelevance of Ireland and its deviation from the template of Britain and the United States (Brangan, 2022).…”

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“…Crucially, the Irish case presents gendered violence as a collectivist harm perpetrated by the state. Drawing on Walklate’s (2018) argument that criminology is unable to see the interconnections between peace-time violence, war-time violence, and postconflict violence, and to integrate this with the violence of the state, we can see that the contemporary concerns of the discipline close off other ways of seeing. Just as Kelly (1988) proposed a continuum of sexual violence, so we suggest a multidimensional understanding of gendered violence with the state at one pole and the individual actor at the other.…”

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Historical Gendered Institutional Violence: A Research Agenda for Criminologists

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Ring

2022

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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This article considers the phenomenon of historical gendered institutional harm, examining the widespread incarceration of women and girls in Ireland through the decades following independence in 1922. In this period, thousands of women and girls were confined in a network of sites including Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes. The article considers the responses to this history, focusing on those fields which concern themselves with matters of “wrongdoing” and “harm,” responses grounded in law and legalism. We explore both the utility and the limits of these approaches before proposing a criminological research agenda which draws on the centrality of the state in the perpetration of gendered violence. Although Ireland has become a by-word as a case of historical institutional abuse internationally, it remains remarkably understudied by criminologists. The article explores how the Irish example can speak to the discipline of criminology by forcing us to reimagine how we conceive of gendered harms and state-perpetrated harms.

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Historical Gendered Institutional Violence: A Research Agenda for Criminologists

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2022

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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“…Jewkes raises concerns that emotional investment on the part of the researcher may compromise research in terms of ethics and rigour; however, as Hollway and Jefferson (2013) point out, it is research without feeling which is unethical, further arguing that objectivity comes with subjectivity and a strong commitment to reflexivity. Furthermore, rather than being ‘too’ close to the subject matter and consequently lacking in objectivity, beginning with emotion and admitting the influence of the self opens up space for enriching political and academic analysis and developing the criminological imagination (Jewkes, 2011; Walklate, 2018). It also offers an ethical opportunity for the criminologist to take a pause and think more carefully about the victims and violence we frequently make reference to – as an act of remembrance (Wilson et al, 2016), commemoration and ‘bearing witness’ (Walklate et al, 2015).…”

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Violence, emotion and place: The case of five murders involving sex workers

Wattis

2019

Crime, Media, Culture

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This article examines a series of murders involving young women linked to sex work, which occurred in the same Northern town between 1998 and 2003. It explores the case on a number of levels. First, it situates violence, and these murders specifically, in the localised spaces of advanced marginality, which follow in the wake of deindustrialisation and economic decline. Second, the article links these murders to sex workers’ disproportionate vulnerability to violence as a result of social stigma and situational risk. However, informed by auto-ethnography and the growing recognition that there is potential for academic analysis within criminology to include the criminologist’s own emotional engagement, the discussion moves on to explore the author’s personal reflection on this series of murders derived from vicarious connection and proximity to victims. In addition, the author draws on the concepts of spectrality and haunting, which have gained currency across the social sciences, to illuminate the irrevocable connections between place, violence and emotion at the level of the local. The concept of spectrality offers a means of envisaging how the past continues to occupy and disrupt the present. Studies of place deploy spectrality and the figure of the ghost to consider how acts of violence and atrocity transform the essence of physical and social space. For the purposes of this article, the concept of haunting is used to explore these young women’s lives and deaths, which retain a strong presence in the collective memory due to their powerful connections to place, as well as the cultural work of the media in keeping them alive in the local imagination. Finally, the political potential of haunting – as a means to confront past and ongoing injustices, is also considered, which draws attention to the combined structural conditions in which these young women were murdered.

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Criminological futures and gendered violence(s): Lessons from the global pandemic for criminology

Walklate

2021

Journal of Criminology

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The purpose of this paper is to foreground the gendered crime consequences of the global pandemic and to raise questions emanating from them for the future(s) of criminology. The paper reviews some of the criminological response to the pandemic offered during 2020. The global pandemic was constituted by some as providing the opportunity for a natural experiment in which criminological theories and concepts could be tested in real time and by others as an opportunity to further raise the profile of crimes more hidden from view, particularly domestic abuse. For the former, domestic abuse is constituted as an exception to what might be learned from this experimental moment. For the latter, gendered violence(s) are central to making sense of this moment as ongoing, mundane and ordinary features of (women’s) everyday lives. This paper makes the case that the evidence relating to the gendered consequences of Covid-19, renders it no longer possible for the discipline to regard feminist informed work (largely found within the latter view above) as the stranger, outside of, or an exception to, the discipline’s central concerns. It is suggested that the future(s) of criminology lie in rendering that stranger’s voice, focusing as it does on the continuities of men’s gendered violence(s) in all spheres of life, as the discipline’s central problematic.

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‘Seeing’ gender, war and terror

Cited by 4 publications

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Historical Gendered Institutional Violence: A Research Agenda for Criminologists

Historical Gendered Institutional Violence: A Research Agenda for Criminologists

Violence, emotion and place: The case of five murders involving sex workers

Criminological futures and gendered violence(s): Lessons from the global pandemic for criminology

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