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Scientific article 14. OCT 2021
  • The Social Sector
  • Children, Adolescents and Families
  • The Social Sector, Children, Adolescents and Families

Displaying Family at a Women's Refuge

Authors:

  • Sofie Henze-Pedersen
  • Margaretha Järvinen
  • The Social Sector
  • Children, Adolescents and Families
  • The Social Sector, Children, Adolescents and Families
Staged photo: Cathrine Kjærø Ulf Ertmann/VIVE
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  • Sofie Henze-Pedersen

    Senior Researcher, Msc anthropology, PhD sociology

    +45 33 48 09 60
    shp@vive.dk
This article explores the family relationships of mothers and children living at a women’s refuge because of intimate partner violence. Theoretically, the article contributes to the sociological literature analysing family relationships in terms of ‘doing’ and ‘displaying’ rather than ‘being’ a family. Empirically, it is based on ethnographic fieldwork and semi-structured interviews with children living at a refuge in Denmark. The article shows that family display at the refuge is conducted by both mothers and children and sometimes in conflicting ways, not least when it comes to the question of how to define the position of the father (who has committed the violence) in the family’s future life. This highlights how display – as an evaluative practice – can be done in different ways in order to protect or reject family relationships, both internally and when addressing external audiences. Furthermore, the article analyses family relationships in a semi-public setting (the refuge) where powerful audiences are active interpreters of the family display enacted, and participants in decisions concerning the families’ futures.

Authors

  • Sofie Henze-PedersenMargaretha Järvinen

About this publication

  • Financed by

    Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond
  • Published in

    The Sociological Review
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