Through a Glass, Darkly

Representation and Power in Research on Organized Abuse

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ID12875422
AuthorsMichael Salter (0000-0001-6446-9498, Western Sydney University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume9
Issue3
Pages152-166
Publication date2013-07-31
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Sociology Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1733-8077 • E-ISSN: 1733-8077
PublisherUniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18778/1733-8077.9.3.08
OpenAlexW4206135834
LanguageEN
References cited12

This paper draws on the author’s experience undertaking life history research with adults with histories of organized child sexual abuse. Organized abuse has been a particular flashpoint for controversy in debates over child abuse and memory, but it is also a very harmful and traumatic form of sexual violence. Research participants described how, in childhood, threats and trauma kept them silent about their abuse, but in adulthood this silence was reinforced by the invalidation that accompanied their efforts to draw attention to the harms that have befallen themselves and others. This paper will examine the role of qualitative research in addressing a form of alterity whose defining characteristic is the silencing and dismissal of narrative

Abuse of power · Aesthetics · Child abuse · Criminology · Dismissal · Narrative · Poison control · Political science · Power (physics · Representation (politics · Sexual abuse · Silence · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Child Abuse and Trauma · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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