“Is This Violence?” Subtlety, Doubt, and the Struggle to Narrate Transgressive Behavior in Denmark
Med Anthropol. 2025 Jun 13:1-16. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2517580. Online ahead of print.
ABSTRACT
Based on multi-sited fieldwork in Denmark, I explore how Danish women and men negotiate their positions as potential victims of intimate partner violence: in particular, psychological violence. First, focusing on retrospective stories about everyday life, I argue that violence may be experienced as subtle and not necessarily noisy. Second, by turning my attention to public narratives about psychological violence, I demonstrate that they often fail to align with the interlocutors’ stories. This, I suggest, can lead to transgressive behavior being interpreted as nonviolence. This article offers a detailed analysis of the subtle micro-mechanisms that underpin the first manifestations of violence.
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