Domestic abuse and the public/private divide in the British military
Domestic abuse and the public/private divide in the British military
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DOI：
10.1080/0966369x.2015.1034247
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发表时间：
2016-06-02
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Gray, Harriet
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作者：
Gray, Harriet
公共和私人社会领域之间的划分总是流动的、相互构成的，以及政治和社会方面的规定。在英国军队内部，由于作战效能的需要，这样的分歧进一步被框定。在追求行动效力的过程中，公共/私营部门有时发挥着漏洞百出的作用，很大程度上是通过军队向人员及其家属提供住房、福利和治安等服务，以及通过紧密联系的军事社区的概念，而在其他方面则是坚定的，通过诉诸军事化的思想，即私人领域是壁炉、家庭和女性气质的固定空间，得到军事力量的保护，从而加强行动效率。本文使用家庭暴力的叙述作为一个窗口，通过它来分析英国军队中公私分立的法令。这项分析借鉴了访谈参与者的虐待和求助经历，以说明在与家庭暴力有关的问题上，作战效力的优先顺序如何以复杂而灵活的方式框定和界定当代英国军队中的公共和私人。讨论了这对受害者幸存者寻求帮助的经验的影响。
Divisions between the social spheres of public and private are always fluid, mutually constitutive, and politically and socially formulated. Within the British military, such divisions are further framed through the needs of operational effectiveness. In the pursuit of operational effectiveness the public/private divide functions at times as porous, in large part through the military's provision of services such as housing, welfare and policing to personnel and their families and through the notion of a close-knit military community, and at others as firm, bolstering operational effectiveness through recourse to militarised ideas of the private sphere as the fixed space of hearth, home and femininity which is to be protected by military force. This article employs narratives of domestic abuse as a window through which to analyse enactments of the public/private divide in the British military. The analysis draws upon interview participants' experiences of abuse and of help-seeking to illustrate the complex and fluid ways in which the prioritisation of operational effectiveness frames and delimits the public and the private within the contemporary British military in relation to domestic abuse. The impacts of this upon victim-survivors' help-seeking experiences are discussed.