Coercive Control: From Literature into Law

强制控制：从文学到法律

• 批准号: AH/W011271/1
• 负责人: Hannah Roche
• 金额: $ 2.8万
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW011271%2F1
• 关键词: Coercive; Control; Literature; into; Law

'Coercive Control: From Literature into Law' will be the first interdisciplinary project to investigate the complex relationship between British literary fiction and the law of coercive control. In 2015, domestic violence legislation in England and Wales was extended to include 'threats, humiliation and intimidation' and 'a range of acts designed to make a person subordinate and/or dependent'. While the crime of coercive control may involve sustained exploitation, deprivation, regulation, isolation, and degradation, a troubling misconception persists: that domestic abuse is limited to physical, rather than psychological, violence. The Women's Aid Federation of England, which campaigned to make coercive control a criminal offence, 'now wants to make sure that everyone understands what it is'.Creative storytelling has played a crucial role in raising awareness and shaping understandings of this new offence. The Rob and Helen Titchener storyline on BBC Radio Four's The Archers, which won the Outstanding Contribution Award at the 2017 BBC Audio Drama Awards, drew public attention to the chilling psychological effects and momentous legal implications of sustained coercive control. Polly Neate, CEO of Women's Aid, reported that the 'Archers effect' saw a 20% increase in calls to the National Domestic Abuse Helpline. For many survivors of coercive control, whose voices were heard in the mainstream media in the weeks surrounding Helen's trial, The Archers provided the first account of an experience that aligned with their own. More recently, the ten-part miniseries Maid (2021) has shown viewers the devastating and terrifying power of psychological and verbal abuse, leading to the claim that Netflix has produced 'the most important series in history'. But long before coercive control was identified and criminalised, writers of fiction had explored, analysed, challenged, and imagined ways of escaping from coercive and controlling relationships.This will be the first project on coercive control to combine literary and legal research methodologies. While coercive control now carries a maximum of five years in prison in the UK, fictional women have been imprisoned in narratives of psychological abuse for centuries, helping to shape understandings of its far-reaching effects. Drawing on our combined expertise in legal history and literature from the Victorian period to the present day, our network will ask important questions about British writing and its psychological, social, and educational impact. How have textual strategies of surveillance and regulation driven different fictions, from Victorian marriage plots and neo-Gothic mid-century melodramas to contemporary queer narratives of unequal unions? How might realist authorial omniscience and postmodern textual trickery be read as metafictional meditations on coercive control? How do narratives of coercive control empower readers and amplify the voices of survivors?While our project will benefit from significant contributions by international scholars, including keynote speakers Professor Celia Marshik (English Department, Stony Brook University) and Professor Simon Stern (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto), it will also investigate narratives of coercive control at a local level. The project has significant roots in Yorkshire writing, by the Brontë family of Haworth and George Gissing of Wakefield. These local connections will inform our work with 'Staying Put' and 'Together Women', Yorkshire-based charities working to support survivors of sexual violence and coercive control.

‘强制控制：从文学到法律“将是第一个跨学科的项目，以探讨英国文学小说和强制控制法之间的复杂关系。2015年，英格兰和威尔士的家庭暴力立法扩大到包括“威胁，羞辱和恐吓”以及“旨在使一个人从属和/或依赖的一系列行为”。虽然强制控制罪可能涉及持续的剥削、剥夺、管制、隔离和贬低，但一个令人不安的误解仍然存在：家庭虐待仅限于身体暴力，而不是心理暴力。英格兰妇女援助联合会曾发起运动，要求将强制控制定为刑事犯罪，“现在希望确保每个人都了解这是什么”。创造性的讲故事在提高人们对这种新罪行的认识和理解方面发挥了至关重要的作用。英国广播公司第四电台的《弓箭手》中的罗布和海伦·蒂琴纳故事情节在2017年英国广播公司音频戏剧奖上获得了杰出贡献奖，引起了公众对持续强制控制的令人不寒而栗的心理影响和重大法律的影响的关注。妇女援助组织的首席执行官波利·尼特报告说，“弓箭手效应”使全国家庭虐待求助热线的电话增加了20%。对于许多强制控制的幸存者来说，在海伦审判的几周内，他们的声音在主流媒体上被听到，弓箭手提供了第一个与他们自己的经历相一致的经历。最近，十集迷你剧《女仆》（2021）向观众展示了心理和言语虐待的毁灭性和可怕的力量，导致Netflix声称制作了“历史上最重要的系列”。但是，早在强制控制被确认和定罪之前，小说作家就已经探索、分析、挑战和想象了逃离强制和控制关系的方法。这将是第一个将联合收割机文学和法律的研究方法结合起来的强制控制项目。虽然强制控制现在在英国最多可判处五年监禁，但虚构的女性在心理虐待的叙述中被监禁了几个世纪，有助于塑造对其深远影响的理解。利用我们从维多利亚时期到现在的法律的历史和文学的综合专业知识，我们的网络将询问有关英国写作及其心理，社会和教育影响的重要问题。从维多利亚时代的婚姻情节、新哥特式的中世纪情节剧到当代关于不平等结合的酷儿叙事，监视和管制的文本策略是如何驱动不同的小说的？现实主义作者的全知和后现代文本技巧如何被解读为对强制控制的元小说沉思？强制控制的叙事如何赋予读者权力并放大幸存者的声音？虽然我们的项目将受益于国际学者的重大贡献，包括主讲人Celia Marshik教授（英语系，斯托尼布鲁克大学）和Simon Stern教授（法学院，多伦多大学），它也将调查在地方一级的强制控制的叙述。该项目有显着的根源在约克郡写作，由勃朗特家庭的霍沃斯和乔治吉辛的韦克菲尔德。这些当地的联系将告知我们与“留在原地”和“在一起的女人”，约克郡的慈善机构工作，以支持性暴力和强制控制的幸存者的工作。