Things seemed to fall apart when he was in the room: Survivors' representations of violence, agency, power, and resistance in their online posts

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dc.contributor.advisorCairns, Sharon L.
dc.contributor.authorLoewen, Shannon G.
dc.contributor.committeememberMudry, Tanya E.
dc.contributor.committeememberRadtke, H. Lorraine
dc.date2019-06
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-23T20:28:36Z
dc.date.available2019-04-23T20:28:36Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-18
dc.description.abstractIn this research, I examined the ways in which survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) negotiated, in their online narratives, multiple IPV and gendered discourses to represent the context of men’s violence and to construct their subjectivities. I analyzed 26 online forum posts using Coates, Todd, and Wade’s (2003) interactional and discursive view of violence and resistance and Baxter’s (2003, 2008) feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis. The integrated findings demonstrated that the survivors drew from multiple competing discourses in their constructions of men’s violence and in constituting themselves as women, partners, mothers, and survivors. The results of analysis also identified how dominant IPV and gendered discourses worked intertextually to position survivors in shifting relations of power, to constrain their agency, and to delimit their strategies of resistance. However, the survivors also resisted IPV in meaningful ways. The limitations and the implications of these findings for research and counselling are discussed.en_US
dc.identifier.citationLoewen, S. G. (2019). Things seemed to fall apart when he was in the room: Survivors' representations of violence, agency, power, and resistance in their online posts (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/36375
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/110187
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.facultyWerklund School of Educationen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.en_US
dc.subjectintimate partner violenceen_US
dc.subjectdiscourseen_US
dc.subjectonline forumen_US
dc.subjectpoweren_US
dc.subjectagencyen_US
dc.subjectresistanceen_US
dc.subjectfeminist poststructuralismen_US
dc.subjectinteractional and discursive view of violence and resistanceen_US
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Guidance and Counselingen_US
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Social Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.classificationLinguisticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationWomen's Studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationPsychology--Socialen_US
dc.titleThings seemed to fall apart when he was in the room: Survivors' representations of violence, agency, power, and resistance in their online postsen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineEducation Graduate Program – Educational Psychologyen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgaryen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science (MSc)en_US
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