RT Article
T1 Technology-Facilitated Domestic Abuse in Political Economy: A New Theoretical Framework
JF Violence against women
VO 27
IS 10
SP 1479
OP 1498
A1 Yardley, Elizabeth
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1761550438
AB This article presents a new theoretical framework around technology-facilitated domestic abuse (TFDA) in identifying four distinct types of omnipresent behavior. Perpetrators are increasingly drawing upon networked technologies like smartphones, social media, and GPS trackers in monitoring, controlling, and abusing survivors. There is considerable academic literature developing in response to this. While this scholarship is valuable, this article argues that TFDA must be understood as a neoliberal manifestation of patriarchal legacies of misogyny and sexism. A failure to recognize this will serve to prioritize abusers’ freedom to do harm over rights of survivors to be protected from harm.
K1 Coercive Control
K1 Domestic abuse
K1 Technology
DO 10.1177/1077801220947172