Choosing and enjoying violence in narratives

Passive Voice in Narratives Describing Domestic Violence

Narratives of aging in intimate partner violence: the double lens of violence and old age.

PURPOSE With the increase in life expectancy, couples living in intimate partner violence are aging together. The aim of this article is to explore the constructions of aging in intimate partner violence as narratives of couplehood or narratives of old age. DESIGN AND METHODS Thirty individual in-depth interviews with 15 older Israeli couples were tape-recorded, transcribed verbatim and analy...

[Narratives of intimate partner violence practiced against women].

Research was conducted with women aged 15 to 49 living in an economically vulnerable area of the Brazilian state capital on the experience of victims of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). The study adopted a qualitative technique called Collective Subject Discourse. During the interviews in their homes between February and July, 195 women reported incidents of violence throughout their lives. The...

Enjoying to Work

occasion of his 65th birthday. Mario is a unique combination of enthusiasm and mathematical talent, scientific devotion and altru-ism. He contributed massively and in a significant way to research in computer science. During the last decade his research was focused on membrane computing, where he contributed fundamental results especially related to computational complexity as well as results r...

Heroic Realism: Rhetoric and Violence in Narratives of Justice and Discourses of Decision

After the evacuation of a transcendental ethic as a universal yardstick or law for action, notions of justice, morality and the law nevertheless remain policed, and are still invested in by strong systems of belief and prejudice. This thesis sets out to analyse the tradition and prevalence of “idealising” moments of consequence, judgement and decision and their specific relation to a transcende...