Jane Gilgun

Violence Real and Imagined: Reflections on 25 Years of Research (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

For more than 25 years, I have done research on perpetrators of violence and on persons who have risks for violence but lived law-abiding, pro-social lives. I talked to them in prisons and treatment centers. In this narrative, I describe my gradual understandings of the meanings of violence to perpetrators and of the violence that resides in my own heart and in my use of violent imagery and thoughts in my daily life. I realize now that listening to these stories of violence helped me to become aware of my own internalized violence. I have processed my internalized violence and have let go of most of it, although I will not let myself forget that violent thoughts and images are within me and presumably in other people too. It seems impossible to be part of this culture and not to have internalized violence. My hope is that what I have learned will make a constructive contribution to the understanding and prevention of various forms of interpersonal violence. I have a lot of thinking to do. This was originally published in 2010 in the journal Reflections.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jane Gilgun
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781476006789
• Artikelnr.: 48359440

Autorenporträt

I like to laugh. I like witty people. When I'm not with my horses, I in my garden, in the kitchen cooking, or sharing good times with family and friends. I'm Dr. Jane Gilgun, a professor emerita in the School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota, USA, where I was a professor from 1984 to 2021.

I have published a lot and am an international leader in the development of qualitative social work research methods. I have served as president of the International Society for Qualitative Inquiry and chair of Social Work Day for the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry for 12 years.

My long-term research was on the meanings of violence to perpetrators, the development of violent behaviors, and how persons overcome adversities. I was the principal investigator for 22 research projects conducted with community partners, focusing on factors associated with good outcomes for children and families.

My research draws upon the work of Jane Addams and John Dewey and is based on a pragmatist philosophy of science that takes into account persons and situation, lived experience, meanings and interpretations, researcher reflexivity, and research to be used for the common good. My research has an explicit value base of justice, care, dignity and worth, and respect for autonomy/self-determination.

Many of my articles and books are available on the internet for free or low cost. I write books on many other topics based on research I have done for many years. I also comment on public events.