R. Pain
Seismologies of emotion: fear and activism during domestic violence
Pain, R.
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Abstract
This paper explores the relation of fear to activism in private and constrained circumstances of chronic risk and anxiety. Asking how people contest domestic violence, given the intensity of the fear that it generates, the paper reframes their responses as practices of activism. It draws on qualitative research that charts the nature, experience and effects of fear over time. Using seismology as a metaphor for this process, the analysis describes complex and often hidden shifts in emotions over periods of years, as interviewees describe being simultaneously constrained by fear and actively using fear to manage and contest violence. Their practices of resistance are small scale, largely invisible to others, and have a messy and non-linear relationship with the process of leaving that some eventually undertake. Such action is only necessary in a social and political climate which continues to place more emphasis on individual than social responsibility for domestic violence. I examine what this resistance adds to recent accounts of activism, concluding that isolated actions constitute activism when they anticipate or engender collective social and political change at other scales.
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Pain, R. (2014). Seismologies of emotion: fear and activism during domestic violence. Social and Cultural Geography, 15(2), 127-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2013.862846
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Jan 10, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Apr 2, 2014 |
Publicly Available Date | May 12, 2014 |
Journal | Social and Cultural Geography |
Print ISSN | 1464-9365 |
Electronic ISSN | 1470-1197 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 15 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 127-150 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2013.862846 |
Keywords | Domestic violence, Activism, Emotion, Fear, Politics, Social change. |
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This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Rachel Pain (2014) Seismologies of emotion: fear and activism during domestic violence, Social & Cultural Geography, 15:2, 127-150. 2014 © Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14649365.2013.862846.
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