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Violence, Spatiality and Other Rurals

Violence, Spatiality and Other Rurals AbstractOccidentalism, which treats the other as the same, can be detected in both thecriminological and rural sociological treatment of violence in the sociospatialsites of rural countrysides. Criminology tends to mistakenly assume thatviolence in the modern world is primarily an urban phenomenon (Baldwin &Bottoms, 1976, p. 1; Braithwaite, 1989, p. 47). If violence in rural settings isencountered it tends to be treated as a smaller scale version of the urbanproblem, or the importation of an otherwise urban problem - as the corruptinginfluence of the gesellschaft within the gemeinschaft. Within much ruralsociology violence is rendered invisible by the assumption that ruralcommunities conform to the idealised conception of the typical gemeinschaftsociety, small-scale traditional societies based on strong cohesiveness,intimacy and organic forms of solidarity. What these bonds conceal, rather thanreveal - violence within the family - remains invisible to the public gaze. Thevisibility of violence within Aboriginal families and communities presents amajor exception to the spatially ordered social relations which render so muchwhite family violence hidden. The need to take into account the complexity anddiversity of these sociospatial relations is concretely highlighted in ourresearch which has taken us out of the urban context and confronted us not onlywith the phenomenon of the violence of other rurals1, but also withfundamentally competing claims on, and conceptions of, space and place in thecontext of a racially divided Australian interior. This article represents thesecond installment of conceptual reflections on this research, with the firsthaving been published in this journal in 1998. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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AbstractOccidentalism, which treats the other as the same, can be detected in both thecriminological and rural sociological treatment of violence in the sociospatialsites of rural countrysides. Criminology tends to mistakenly assume thatviolence in the modern world is primarily an urban phenomenon (Baldwin &Bottoms, 1976, p. 1; Braithwaite, 1989, p. 47). If violence in rural settings isencountered it tends to be treated as a smaller scale version of the urbanproblem, or the importation of an otherwise urban problem - as the corruptinginfluence of the gesellschaft within the gemeinschaft. Within much ruralsociology violence is rendered invisible by the assumption that ruralcommunities conform to the idealised conception of the typical gemeinschaftsociety, small-scale traditional societies based on strong cohesiveness,intimacy and organic forms of solidarity. What these bonds conceal, rather thanreveal - violence within the family - remains invisible to the public gaze. Thevisibility of violence within Aboriginal families and communities presents amajor exception to the spatially ordered social relations which render so muchwhite family violence hidden. The need to take into account the complexity anddiversity of these sociospatial relations is concretely highlighted in ourresearch which has taken us out of the urban context and confronted us not onlywith the phenomenon of the violence of other rurals1, but also withfundamentally competing claims on, and conceptions of, space and place in thecontext of a racially divided Australian interior. This article represents thesecond installment of conceptual reflections on this research, with the firsthaving been published in this journal in 1998.

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE

Published: Dec 1, 2003

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