Journal article
Violence, Spatiality and Other Rurals
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol.36(3), pp.293-319
2003
Abstract
Occidentalism, which treats the other as the same, can be detected in both the criminological & rural sociological treatment of violence in the sociospatial sites of rural countrysides. Criminology tends to mistakenly assume that violence in the modern world is primarily an urban phenomenon (Baldwin & Bottoms, 1976, p. 1; Braithwaite, 1989, p. 47). If violence in rural settings is encountered it tends to be treated as a smaller scale version of the urban problem, or the importation of an otherwise urban problem -- as the corrupting influence of the gesellschaft within the gemeinschaft. Within much rural sociology, violence is rendered invisible by the assumption that rural communities conform to the idealized conception of the typical gemeinschaft society, small-scale traditional societies based on strong cohesiveness, intimacy, & organic forms of solidarity. What these bonds conceal, rather than reveal -- violence within the family -- remains invisible to the public gaze. The visibility of violence within Aboriginal families & communities presents a major exception to the spatially ordered social relations, which render so much white family violence hidden. The need to take into account the complexity & diversity of these sociospatial relations is concretely highlighted in our research, which has taken us out of the urban context & confronted us not only with the phenomenon of the violence of other rurals, but also with fundamentally competing claims on, & conceptions of, space & place in the context of a racially divided Australian interior. This article represents the second installment of conceptual reflections on this research, with the first having been published in this journal in 1998.
Details
- Title
- Violence, Spatiality and Other Rurals
- Authors
- Russell Hogg (Author) - Australian National UniversityKerry Carrington (Author) - Australian Parliamentary Library
- Publication details
- Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol.36(3), pp.293-319
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd.
- DOI
- 10.1375/acri.36.3.293
- ISSN
- 1837-9273
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99651497602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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