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Nordic Family, Violence and Modernity
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This workshop is part of the project Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother: Violence Against Parents in the North of Europe. Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences.You will find the project description below.
At this stage, we will need a confirmation of your interest (by 10 December 2013) as well as a draft title of your presentation and short abstract (100 words) (by 15 February 2014). As we are thinking about the publication in a peer-reviewed journal, please, bear in mind that your presentation might be transformed into a full-length academic article.
We also welcome your suggestions about other colleagues and researchers who might be interested in the theme of our project.
Description of the project
Violence against parents, understood as any act by children that intimidates the parents and is aimed at hurting them, is a phenomenon that has become high profile in recent years. The conclusion from of research is that violence against parents constituted a recent phenomenon attributed to the crisis if family policies or parenting styles or communication problems between parents and their children. However, sociologists, criminologists and psychologists rarely attempt explanations beyond present-day external/internal factors, treating violence against parents as a very modern phenomenon. Research in the history of domestic violence though reveals that parent abuse and parricide were very familiar for the past societies and they took place in completely different context of patriarchal family organization and strict prohibition of abuse against parents. The secular and religious (Christian) teachings in early modern Europe based relationships of parents and children on the fourth commandment and all European states harshly prosecuted parricides (the most abominable crime) and any physical and verbal violence against. In the meantime specialists in the history of homicide indicated that the amount of parricides was as low as in the present day societies and accounted for the same 2-6% of all homicides.
This workshop series is initiated by specialists in early modern Nordic histories to study forms and methods of intra-family violence at the origins of modern states formation and bring this study up to the present-day: to map out the state of the art of the research on family violence and especially on violence by children against their parents, to bring together the current specialists, to compare early modern and current ideas and to suggest further points of research. The main research themes include attitudes to family power relations and hierarchies, permissibility of the usage of violence in the family, forms and types of violence against parents, gender-based analysis of violence against parents, patricides and matricides.
Workshop Structure: The series consists of two workshops. Each workshop is divided into sections and each member of the organizing committee is responsible for each individual section. They will be the ones, who will finalize participants of their sections and provide feedback and section discussion description for the dissemination. Each section includes 3 papers and a discussant.
Workshop 1: Nordic Family, Violence and Modernity
University of Tampere, May 22-24, 2014
The first workshop focuses on the concepts and challenges of family and family violence within the early modern and modern Northern Europe. This workshop should facilitate to provide a background to violence against parents, which has been a yet underdeveloped area of research in Scandinavian and European modern studies.
At this stage, we will need a confirmation of your interest (by 10 December 2013) as well as a draft title of your presentation and short abstract (100 words) (by 15 February 2014). As we are thinking about the publication in a peer-reviewed journal, please, bear in mind that your presentation might be transformed into a full-length academic article.
We also welcome your suggestions about other colleagues and researchers who might be interested in the theme of our project.
Description of the project
Violence against parents, understood as any act by children that intimidates the parents and is aimed at hurting them, is a phenomenon that has become high profile in recent years. The conclusion from of research is that violence against parents constituted a recent phenomenon attributed to the crisis if family policies or parenting styles or communication problems between parents and their children. However, sociologists, criminologists and psychologists rarely attempt explanations beyond present-day external/internal factors, treating violence against parents as a very modern phenomenon. Research in the history of domestic violence though reveals that parent abuse and parricide were very familiar for the past societies and they took place in completely different context of patriarchal family organization and strict prohibition of abuse against parents. The secular and religious (Christian) teachings in early modern Europe based relationships of parents and children on the fourth commandment and all European states harshly prosecuted parricides (the most abominable crime) and any physical and verbal violence against. In the meantime specialists in the history of homicide indicated that the amount of parricides was as low as in the present day societies and accounted for the same 2-6% of all homicides.
This workshop series is initiated by specialists in early modern Nordic histories to study forms and methods of intra-family violence at the origins of modern states formation and bring this study up to the present-day: to map out the state of the art of the research on family violence and especially on violence by children against their parents, to bring together the current specialists, to compare early modern and current ideas and to suggest further points of research. The main research themes include attitudes to family power relations and hierarchies, permissibility of the usage of violence in the family, forms and types of violence against parents, gender-based analysis of violence against parents, patricides and matricides.
Workshop Structure: The series consists of two workshops. Each workshop is divided into sections and each member of the organizing committee is responsible for each individual section. They will be the ones, who will finalize participants of their sections and provide feedback and section discussion description for the dissemination. Each section includes 3 papers and a discussant.
Workshop 1: Nordic Family, Violence and Modernity
University of Tampere, May 22-24, 2014
The first workshop focuses on the concepts and challenges of family and family violence within the early modern and modern Northern Europe. This workshop should facilitate to provide a background to violence against parents, which has been a yet underdeveloped area of research in Scandinavian and European modern studies.
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