Pacific Peoples, Violence, and the Power and Control Wheel

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (18) ◽  
pp. 2777-2803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Rankine ◽  
Teuila Percival ◽  
Eseta Finau ◽  
Linda-Teleo Hope ◽  
Pefi Kingi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Control Wheel ◽  
And Control ◽  
Duluth Model ◽  
Pacific Community

This qualitative project was the first to study values and practices about sexual assault among migrant communities from the Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, and Tuvalu in New Zealand. It aimed to identify customs, beliefs, and practices among these ethnic groups that were protective and preventive factors against sexual violence. Researchers were ethnically matched with 78 participants from the seven ethnic communities, and conducted individual interviews and one female focus group using protocols that were culturally appropriate for each ethnic group. Interviews were thematically analyzed. The study identified the brother–sister covenant and the sanctity of women as strong protective and preventive factors against sexual violence, expressed differently in each culture. Most participants viewed sexual violence as involving their extended families, village, and church communities, rather than solely the individuals concerned. However, the communal values and practices of these seven Pacific cultures raise questions about the individualistic assumptions and the meaning of violence underlying the Power and Control Wheel and the Duluth Model of domestic violence. It also raises questions about how such an individualized model can help services effectively support women in these collective societies who are experiencing violence, and how it can contribute to Pacific community prevention of violence. This study is therefore relevant to countries with significant populations of Pacific peoples and other collective cultures.

scholarly journals Beyond the Power and Control Wheel: how abusive men manipulate mobile phone technologies to facilitate coercive control

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tirion Elizabeth Havard ◽  
Michelle Lefevre
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Domestic Abuse ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Coercive Control ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Control Wheel ◽  
And Control ◽  
Abusive Men

Mobile phone ownership has become almost universal, with smartphones the most popular consumer electronics device. While the role of technologies and digital media in the domestic abuse of women is gaining international attention, specific information regarding how mobile phones, and their various ‘apps’, may assist perpetrators in the coercive control of their current or former partners is still a relatively unexplored area in the research literature. This study with women survivors was able to identify that perpetrators use mobile phones in ways that go beyond the traditional tactics of abuse identified through the globally used feminist theorisation of the Power and Control Wheel (developed by the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Programme). The portability and diverse capabilities of mobile phones have been manipulated by abusive men to develop strategies of ‘agile technological surveillance’, which allow them to track and monitor their partners in various ways ‘on the go’ and irrespective of physical proximity. An adaptation of the Power and Control Wheel has been developed and licensed to account for these new opportunities for surveillance, manipulation and control. Proposals are made for integrating this revised framework into professional practice to inform the assessment and management of risk in abusive relationships.

scholarly journals Explanatory models and openness about dementia in migrant communities: A qualitative study among female family carers

Dementia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 840-857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nienke van Wezel ◽  
Anneke L Francke ◽  
Emine Kayan Acun ◽  
Walter LJM Devillé ◽  
Nies J van Grondelle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Informal Caregivers ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
Close Relative ◽  
Family Carers ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Close Family

Background The prevalence of dementia is increasing among people with a Turkish, Moroccan and Surinamese-Creole background. Because informal care is very important in these communities, it is pertinent to see what explanations female family carers have for dementia and whether they can discuss dementia openly within the community and the family. Method Forty-one individual interviews and six focus group interviews ( n = 28) were held with female Turkish, Moroccan and Surinamese Creole family carers who are looking after a close relative with dementia, and who live in The Netherlands. Qualitative analysis has been carried out, supported by the software MaxQda. Results The dominant explanations of dementia given by the female family carers interviewed are in line with what Downs et al. describe as the explanatory models ‘dementia as a normal ageing process’ and ‘dementia as a spiritual experience’. In addition, some female family carers gave explanations that were about an interplay between various factors. Turkish and Moroccan informal caregivers ascribe the causes of dementia relatively often to life events or personality traits, whereas Surinamese Creole caregivers frequently mention physical aspects, such as past dehydration. However, the explanatory model ‘dementia as a neuropsychiatric condition', which is dominant in Western cultures, was rarely expressed by the informal caregivers. The female family carers generally talked openly about the dementia with their close family, whereas particularly in the Turkish and Moroccan communities open communication within the broader communities was often hampered, e.g. by feelings of shame. Conclusions Female family carers of Turkish, Moroccan or Surinamese Creole backgrounds often consider dementia as a natural consequence of ageing, as a spiritual experience, and/or as an interplay between various factors. They feel they can talk openly about dementia within their close family, while outside the close family this is often more difficult.

Enslaving Prison Bodies

2020 ◽  
pp. 102-156
Author(s):  
Robert T. Chase
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Women Prisoners ◽  
State Control ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Prison Rape ◽  
Historical Turn ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
And Control

Chapter 3 moves from the field to the prison building to reveal how hierarchical prisoner labor arrangements structured an internal prison economy that bought and sold prisoner bodies and services as cell slavery. By narrating southern prisons’ shift from dormitories to cells, this chapter will show how the power and control of prisoner trustees was strengthened by the changes. Within the southern convict guard framework, prison rape is analyzed as a state-orchestrated design rather than as an individual act pf prisoner pathology. Through an analysis of sexual violence in male prisons as a social construct of the southern trustee system, this chapter joins in a historical turn toward placing sexual violence at the very center of racial oppression. Seeking to take prison rape seriously as evidence of evolving state control and orchestration, the chapter pushes against the criminological view that has cast prison rape as a timeless function of the prisoners’ own pathology. The chapter also considers how women prisoners experienced the southern trusty system and the state’s attempt to isolate and target women that the prison classified as the “aggressive female homosexual.”

Nonconsensual Porn as a Form of Intimate Partner Violence: Using the Power and Control Wheel to Understand Nonconsensual Porn Perpetration in Intimate Relationships

2020 ◽  
pp. 152483802090653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asia A. Eaton ◽  
Sofia Noori ◽  
Amy Bonomi ◽  
Dionne P. Stephens ◽  
Tameka L. Gillum
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Sexually Explicit Material ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Sexually Explicit ◽  
Control Wheel ◽  
And Control

Over the last decade, nonconsensual porn (NCP), or the sharing of sexually explicit material without a person’s consent, has become a growing problem with potentially far-reaching adverse consequences for victims. The purpose of this article is to propose and consider a framework for advancing the field’s understanding of NCP within the context of intimate relationships including situating NCP relative to other forms of relational abuse. Specifically, we examined the extent to which NCP in intimate partner relationships was perpetrated using tactics from the Power and Control Wheel through a summative content analysis of U.S. news stories on NCP from 2012 to 2017. This analysis established that NCP has been perpetrated using all eight of the abuse metatactics in the Power and Control Wheel, with the three most common being emotional abuse, coercion and threats, and denial/blame/minimization. Treating NCP in relationships as a potential form of partner violence provides a basis on which to understand the etiology, manifestation, motives, and impact of this form of abuse and informs practitioners’ ability to design prevention efforts and engage a trauma-informed response to survivors.

Conceptualization of Domestic Violence Prevention Utilizing the Institutional Power and Control Wheel

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda M. Cummings ◽  
Krithika Malhotra ◽  
Rosa M. Gonzalez-Guarda ◽  
Maria M. Becerra ◽  
Ivon Mesa
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Control Wheel ◽  
Domestic Violence Prevention ◽  
And Control

Conversion to Islam in Ireland: A Post-Catholic Subjectivity?

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yafa Shanneik
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Celtic Tiger ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Social Authority ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
Irish Women ◽  
Economic Boom ◽  
And Control

Abstract This article discusses the conversion experiences as recalled by Irish women who converted to Islam during the so-called ‘Celtic-Tiger’ period—the years of Ireland’s dramatic economic boom and major socio-cultural transformations between 1995 and 2007. In this period, the increasing religious diversity of Irish society and the decline of the social authority of the Catholic Church facilitated the exploration of alternative religious and spiritual affiliations. Irish women converts to Islam are an example of the emergence of a post-Catholic subjectivity in Ireland during the Celtic Tiger years. The women’s agency is illustrated through the choice of Islam as a religion and a cultural space different to Catholicism in order to gain status, power and control within the various religious and ethnic communities. This article is the first major study on conversion to Islam in Ireland during this period.

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