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AUTHOR
Pasi Hirvonen
Institutional and Affective Practices of Domestic Violence Interventions in Social Work: Malignant Positioning of Victims
This chapter investigates the institutional and affective practices of domestic violence (DV) interventions in Finnish social work. It examines the expression of social workers’ emotions related to intervening in DV and how these expressions result in the positioning of clients. Encountering and intervening in DV is often challenging; ideological presumptions, conceptions, gender-neutral discussions and misrecognition of violence affect institutional arrangements and practices, and the ways in which professionals feel about and respond to violence. We utilise positioning theory to analyse social workers’ focus group interview data (n = 20). We consider (1) how emotions expressed by social w…
Positioning dynamics in small groups
Lectio preacursoria sosiaalipsykologian väitöskirjaksi tarkoitetun tutkimuksen Positioning dynamics in small groups – A micro-cultural small group study in the context of meeting interaction tarkastustilaisuudessa Itä-Suomen yliopiston Kuopion kampuksella 15.2.2020. Vastaväittäjänä toimi professori Mary McVee (University at Buffalo) ja kustoksena professori Vilma Hänninen.