Violence
I realized some while ago that it was not really possible to study men and masculinities critically without also studying violence critically. Thus, studies on violence, and anti-violence, have been a long-running interest and driver. The earlier focus was on sexual harassment (with Wendy Parkin) and child abuse (with the Violence Against Children Study Group), and then historical changes in how violence was constructed (as in the book, Men in the Public Eye), but from the early 1990s it was men’s violence against known women that became the central concern – with important collaborations with Jalna Hanmer and other colleagues. This led onto the book, The Violences of Men, and various empirical, theoretical and policy studies. More recently, online/digital violence and comparative and transnational studies have been foregrounded, including in the first case, in work with Matthew Hall and Ruth Lewis, and in the second under the frame of violence regimes, with Sofia Strid and Anne Laure Humbert and in the edited collection, Interconnecting the Violences of Men, with Kate Seymour, Bob Pease and Sofia Strid.
Selected Works
- Ending Gender-based Violence: A Call for Global Action to Involve Men, with Harry Ferguson, Øystein Gullvåg Holter, Lars Jalmert, Michael Kimmel, James Lang, Robert Morrell and Stefan de Vylders, SIDA, Stockholm, 2004. Link
- Working Against Men’s “Domestic Violence”: Priority Policies and Practices for Men in Intervention, Prevention and Societal Change, with Susan S. M. Edwards, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 2005. View PDF
- ‘A multi-faceted power analysis of men’s violence to known women,’ Sociological Review, 2012. Link
- Studying Men’s Violences in Europe Towards a Research Framework. 2013. View PDF
- ‘The sociological significance of domestic violence,’ Current Sociology, 2013. Link
- ‘Revenge pornography and manhood acts: A discourse analysis,’ Journal of Gender Studies, 2019. Link
- ‘States of violence: Exploring welfare state regimes,’ Journal of European Social Policy, 2021. Link
- ‘Undoing the ‘Nordic Paradox’: Rates of disclosed violence,’ PLOS ONE, 2021. Link
- ‘From gender regimes to violence regimes,’ Social Politics, 2022. Link
- ‘From physical violence to online violation,’ Aggression and Violent Behavior, 2022. Link
- ‘Upskirting, homosociality, and craftsmanship,’ Violence Against Women, 2022. Link
- ‘Violence regimes: A useful concept for social politics,’ Theory & Society, 2022. Link
- ‘The spread of digital intimate partner violence,’ Journal of Business Ethics, 2023. Link
- ‘How did this happen?’, Feminist Encounters, 2023. Link