Learning and Navigating Everyday Violence

Description

Much research with women and girls points to the high levels of physical and sexual violence they experience in their life time. Less reported, but equally concerning, is the everyday violence young women often fail to recognise, identify and report as violence. Drawing on group discussions with young women, this paper illuminates the typical and ‘unremarkable’ forms of violence they experience in their everyday lives, demonstrating how these have become normalised through their frequency and the (socialising) messages young women receive about gender, sexuality and violence. In doing so, we surface the cultures and structures through which young women learn to anticipate, expect and normalise everyday violence, and the routines and strategies they employ to ‘keep themselves safe’. Rather than questioning why young women do not report experiences of violence, we instead consider why they may not recognise their experiences as violence and the processes, structures, and cultures which both enable and conceal this.

Period	4 Sept 2024
Event title	Stop the Clock: Critical Conversations on Contemporary Youth Research, Policy and Practice
Event type	Conference
Location	Belfast, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International