Machinery of Male Violence: Embodied Properties and Chronic Crisis amongst Partners in Vietnam
This article takes the notion of crisis as a helpful analytical entry point to unfold the temporalities and modalities of the machinery of violence as manifested in men’s abuse of their female partners in Vietnam. Based on ethnographic research I conducted over the years, the article argues that som...
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| description | This article takes the notion of crisis as a helpful analytical entry point to unfold the temporalities and modalities of the machinery of violence as manifested in men’s abuse of their female partners in Vietnam. Based on ethnographic research I conducted over the years, the article argues that some types of crises might be episodic, and thus a bracketing of daily life, while others, such as intimate partner violence, might settle as a crisis of chronicity; as a condition of prolonged difficulties and pain that surreptitiously becomes a new ‘normal’. The machinery of violence, the article shows, refers to processes of symbolic and material transformations of a targeted woman, shaped in accordance with a perpetrator’s essentialist imaginations about her embodied properties (e.g., gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity, and bodyableness). Such violence is invigorated by a patrilineal organization of society and a systemic permissiveness to male-to-female abuse. A battered woman is confined to an interregnum; a space in which the laws of protection do not apply and male violence is perpetrated with impunity. Yet, men’s violence against their female partners also is combatted and resisted in Vietnamese society. |
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| title | Machinery of Male Violence: Embodied Properties and Chronic Crisis amongst Partners in Vietnam |
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| title_short | Machinery of Male Violence: Embodied Properties and Chronic Crisis amongst Partners in Vietnam |
| title_sort | machinery of male violence embodied properties and chronic crisis amongst partners in vietnam |
| topic | body gender intimate partner violence masculinity vietnam |
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