Black Women, Domestic Violence, and Paradoxical Space

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Abstract

Feminist critiques of domestic violence have created lucid explanations of how gendered power relations drive patterns of violence in abusive heterosexual relationships.  Recent public debates about the racialized and gendered discrepancies of the application of “Stand Your Ground” (SYG) laws have created an opportunity for stronger spatialized analyses of domestic violence, particularly in the context of the criminalization of battered women who are disproportionately black women and other women of color. Can a geopolitical analysis of domestic violence create a richer understanding of the criminalization of domestic violence survivors who act in self-defense?  In this talk, I will consider the prosecution of Marissa Alexander as a case study to begin a discussion about the spatialized and racialized dimensions of domestic and state violence.

About Alisa Bierria

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