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Intimate war (2014)
Journal Article
Pain, R. (2015). Intimate war. Political Geography, 44, 64-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.09.011

Contending that domestic violence and modern international warfare are part of a single complex of violence, this paper identifies their shared intimate dynamics. Both violences operate through emotional and psychological registers that are as centra... Read More about Intimate war.

Everyday terrorism: connecting domestic violence and global terrorism (2014)
Journal Article
Pain, R. (2014). Everyday terrorism: connecting domestic violence and global terrorism. Progress in Human Geography, 38(4), 531-550. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132513512231

This paper remaps the geographies of terrorism. Everyday terrorism (domestic violence) and global terrorism are related attempts to exert political control through fear. Geographical research on violence neatly reflects the disproportionate recogniti... Read More about Everyday terrorism: connecting domestic violence and global terrorism.

Seismologies of emotion: fear and activism during domestic violence (2014)
Journal Article
Pain, R. (2014). Seismologies of emotion: fear and activism during domestic violence. Social and Cultural Geography, 15(2), 127-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2013.862846

This paper explores the relation of fear to activism in private and constrained circumstances of chronic risk and anxiety. Asking how people contest domestic violence, given the intensity of the fear that it generates, the paper reframes their respon... Read More about Seismologies of emotion: fear and activism during domestic violence.

Impact: striking a blow or walking together? (2014)
Journal Article
Pain, R. (2014). Impact: striking a blow or walking together?. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 13(1), 19-23

If, in future reinventions of research audit, agonising about the state of the discipline and its governance is introduced as a new strand of assessment, every UK geography department will breathe a heavy sigh of relief: at last we can claim global e... Read More about Impact: striking a blow or walking together?.