Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.15378/1848-9540.2022.45.03

Tolerated Pains, Ignored Sorrows. Domestic Violence as Structural Violence with Cultural Continuity

Tanja Bukovčan orcid.org/0000-0003-1970-8044 ; Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Željko Dugac orcid.org/0000-0002-6678-419X ; Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science, Department for the Philosophy of Science, Zagreb

Abstract

In the last few decades, awareness has been raised about the persistence and increase of domestic
violence and intimate partner violence. The initial hypothesis developed here is that
toward those forms of violence linked to the most intimate sphere – home – we, as a society,
practice spatiotemporal “distancing,” thus allowing for this structural and cultural violence
to continue. This paper aims to take up this contemporary theoretical premise in order to
analyze historical accounts of cultural practices related to DV and IPV.

Keywords

domestic violence and abuse (DVA); intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA); visiting nurses; nurses; social workers, violence triangle

Hrčak ID:

287958

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/287958

Publication date:

21.12.2022.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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