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This article addresses the neglected topic of community in relation to intimate partner abuse (IPA). We observe that in discourse about IPA, ‘community’ is generally conceptualized either to refer to professionals working in the community or to minority ethnic communities, whereby ‘community’ is portrayed as an oppressive entity which sanctions violence against women. Neither of these uses addresses the victim or perpetrator's informal social networks. We argue that more research is needed to examine how communities of all kinds challenge or support IPA, without resorting to the polarization of ‘community’ as either entirely benign or entirely dangerous. Using data from an ethnographic study of an ethnically diverse community in the north of England, we argue that ‘community’ is used to construct responses to IPA in diverse, nuanced ways, which should inform efforts to build intolerance of such violence
Author(s): Haq J, Lewis R
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Community Development Journal
Year: 2014
Volume: 49
Issue: 3
Pages: 373-389
Print publication date: 01/06/2014
Online publication date: 04/08/2013
ISSN (print): 0010-3802
ISSN (electronic): 1468-2656
Publisher: Oxford University Press
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bst041
DOI: 10.1093/cdj/bst041
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