Storytelling and Erasure Among Marginalized Populations

Session Submission Type: Regular Session

Abstract/Description

This panel explores storytelling among marginalized populations and abuse survivors, and its effects. It pays particular attention to the ways in which individuals narrate abuse and resistance. In two of the papers, storytelling takes place in the digital world, with implications for identity – in terms of both anonymized identity and gender-race positionings – as well as resistance. In the other paper, individuals are harmfully constructed in ‘official’ narratives, erasure being instrumental to those constructions.

Sub Unit

• Area X. Critical Criminology / 76. Narrative and Visual Criminologies

Individual Presentations

• Storytelling as a Narrative Method for Amplifying the Experiences of Victims - KáLyn (Kay) Coghill, Virginia Commonwealth University

• (De)Gendering Vulnerability: Unsaying Gender in Judicial Narratives of Girls’ Crimes in Brazil - Otto Natalia, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• The Only Alternative?: Giving Testimonies of Sexual Violence on Social Media - Sukanya Bhattacharya, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Chair

• Sukanya Bhattacharya, University of Tennessee, Knoxville