Discursive manoeuvres and hegemonic recuperations in New Zealand documentary representations of domestic violence

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dc.contributor.authorMichelle, Carolynen_US
dc.contributor.authorWeaver, C. Kayen_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-03-19T05:03:12Z
dc.date.available2007-10-10en_US
dc.date.available2008-03-19T05:03:12Z
dc.date.issued2003-09-01en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines three television documentaries--entitled Not Just a Domestic (1994), Not Just a Domestic: The Update (1994), and Picking Up the Pieces (1996)--that together formed part of the New Zealand police ‘Family Violence’ media campaign. Through a Foucauldian, feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis, the paper examines how these texts assert and privilege particular understandings of domestic violence, its causes, effects and possible solutions. The analysis illustrates the way in which five discursive explanations of domestic violence--those of medical pathology, romantic expressive tension, liberal humanist instrumentalism, tabula rasa learning and socio-systematic discourse--are articulated and hierarchically organised within these documentaries, and considers the potential hegemonic effects of each text’s discursive negotiations. It is argued that the centrality of personal ‘case studies’ and the testimonies of both battered women and formerly violent men work to privilege individualistic rather than socio-political explanations of domestic violence. Additionally, the inclusion of extensive ‘survivor speech’ means that women are frequently asked to explain and rationalize their actions as ‘victims’ of domestic violence, while fewer demands are placed on male perpetrators to account for their violent behaviour. Consequently, the documentaries leave the issue of male abuse of power largely unchallenged, and in this way ultimately affirm patriarchal hegemonic interests.
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dc.identifier.citationMichelle, C., & Weaver, C.K. (2003). Discursive manoeuvres and hegemonic recuperations in New Zealand documentary representations of domestic violence. Feminist Media Studies. 3(3), 283-299.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/1468077032000166522en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/557
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfFeminist Media Studiesen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttp://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content?content=10.1080/1468077032000166522en_US
dc.rightsThis is the submitted version of an article published in the journal: Feminist Media Studies. (c) 2003 Taylor & Francis Group.en_US
dc.subjectfeminism
dc.subjectmedia studies
dc.subjectdomestic violence
dc.titleDiscursive manoeuvres and hegemonic recuperations in New Zealand documentary representations of domestic violenceen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
pubs.begin-page283en_NZ
pubs.editionNovemberen_NZ
pubs.elements-id29596
pubs.end-page301en_NZ
pubs.issue3en_NZ
pubs.volume3en_NZ
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