Conceptualising the agency of highly marginalised women: Intimate partner violence in extreme settings
Conceptualising the agency of highly marginalised women: Intimate partner violence in extreme settings
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高度边缘化妇女代理权的概念化： 极端环境下的亲密伴侣暴力
DOI：
10.1080/17441692.2015.1109694
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发表时间：
2016-02-07
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Mannell, Jenevieve
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作者：
Campbell, Catherine;Mannell, Jenevieve
在高度强制的环境中，如何最好地概念化妇女的代理？我们在减少异性关系中对妇女的亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）的国际努力的背景下探讨了这一点。文章批评了一种倾向，即从个人行动的角度来考虑妇女的机构和方案终点，例如报告暴力男子或离开暴力关系，同时忽视了使此类行动不太可能或不可能的相互关联的社会、经济和文化背景。三个主题贯穿了这些文章。(1)在通常使用的“男性-女性”和“受害者-代理人”二元概念中隐含的对性别和权力的无用理解，掩盖了女性代理的多面性和隐藏形式，以及代理-暴力交叉点的复杂性。(2)这种对复杂性的忽视导致减少IPV和妇女生活的政策与干预措施之间的不匹配。(3)这种忽视也掩盖了女性能动性的多样性，包括她们与IPV一起面临的竞争挑战、不同程度的反应以及能动性的时间性。我们将“分布式代理”的概念概括为一个多层次的、增量的和非线性的过程，它分布在时间、空间和社会网络中，并跨越从生存到抵抗的连续行动。这种对机构的理解意味着对目前支持政策和干预措施的一种不同的方法。
How is the agency of women best conceptualised in highly coercive settings? We explore this in the context of international efforts to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) against women in heterosexual relationships. Articles critique the tendency to think of women's agency and programme endpoints in terms of individual actions, such as reporting violent men or leaving violent relationships, whilst neglecting the interlocking social, economic and cultural contexts that make such actions unlikely or impossible. Three themes cut across the articles. (1) Unhelpful understandings of gender and power implicit in commonly used men-women' and victim-agent' binaries obscure multi-faceted and hidden forms of women's agency, and the complexity of agency-violence intersections. (2) This neglect of complexity results in a poor fit between policy and interventions to reduce IPV, and women's lives. (3) Such neglect also obscures the multiplicities of women's agency, including the competing challenges they juggle alongside IPV, differing levels of response, and the temporality of agency. We outline a notion of distributed agency' as a multi-level, incremental and non-linear process distributed across time, space and social networks, and across a continuum of action ranging from survival to resistance. This understanding of agency implies a different approach to those currently underpinning policies and interventions.