We are pleased to announce a forthcoming seminar titled “The narrated emotions of femicide perpetrators in Latin America : a common emotional economy?” featuring Dr. Martín Hernán Di Marco, Postdoctoral researcher from the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, The University of Oslo. The seminar is co-organized by the Chinese Law Programme, HKIAPS, Department of Sociology, and Gender Studies Programme. It is scheduled to take place on Monday, 27 May 2024, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (Hong Kong Time).
Due to the venue’s capacity restriction, on-site participants’ places will be reserved on a first-come-first-served basis.
Abstract:
While studies of femicide perpetrators have focused on background factors, such as criminal history and mental health conditions, little attention has been paid to their individual experiences. Their emotions and sense-making have often been overlooked and even dismissed. With the help of a micro-sociological approach to violence, we identify the narrated emotions involved in the perpetration of femicide. The data gathered is based on 33 open-ended interviews with convicted male perpetrators from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Honduras, Mexico, and Venezuela. We identify four main emotions reflecting participants’ experiences of femicide: Fear, expressed through stories of women as threats to self, family and community; helplessness, expressed through stories of men being trapped, judged and persecuted; and pain, connected to stories of jealousy and belittlement. These lead to anger, expressed through stories of bodily reactions and losing control. The findings indicate femicide perpetrators resort to lethal violence to regulate self-worth and remediate actions they feel were disruptive. Consequently, this research demonstrates the importance of embodied and narrated emotions to understand the phenomenon of femicides. We argue that understanding femicide as a product of a shared pervasive emotional economy points to the role of emotions in maintaining a gendered social order.
For more details about the seminar, please refer to the attached poster.
Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Sociology and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Princeton University
The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce a forthcoming seminar titled “Marriage Exchange in China”, featuring Prof. Yu XIE. The seminar is co-organized by the Center for Population Research (CPR), CUHK. It is scheduled to take place on Thursday, 23 May 2024, from 04:00 p.m. to 05:30 p.m. (Hong Kong Time). The format of the seminar is face-to-face only. Due to the venue’s capacity restriction, participants’ places will be reserved on a first-come-first-served basis.
Abstract: In this presentation, Professor Yu XIE introduces a methodological tool, Exchange Index, for studying marriage exchange. He then presents results from two empirical studies of marriage exchange in China: beauty-status exchange and exchange of family socioeconomic status (SES) and achieved SES.
Conway-Bascom Professor of Sociology
Director, Wisconsin Russia Project (https://russiaproject.wisc.edu/)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce a forthcoming seminar: Love during Wartime: Perspectives of Women in Three Ukrainian Cities Under Russia’s Full-scale Invasion, by Prof. Theodore P. Gerber.
Abstract:
As demographic research on how armed conflict affects fertility has grown, a newer literature on how war affects intimate partnerships has emerged. Most studies on this topic have analyzed post-conflict survey data from high-fertility contexts to address two themes: age at marriage and intimate partner violence. We study how armed conflict affects intimate relationships more broadly based on qualitative data collected while war is underway. We conducted 22 semi-structured, in-depth virtual interviews with women of childbearing age in Ukraine’s two largest cities, Kyiv and Kharkiv, in spring 2023, and three virtual focus groups with similar women in the same two cities and Odesa in December 2023. Both data collections took place more than one year into Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion, which has produced widespread destruction and death, driven over 7,000,000 refugees (mainly women and children) from the country, displaced millions of others internally, and shattered Ukraine’s economy. We asked informants how the full-scale war has affected their own partnerships, those of their friends, relatives, and acquaintances, as well as perceived rates of divorce and the pace and patterns of new partnerships formed. Our informants recounted diverse experiences and perspectives on others’ that illuminate variable ways that war affects relationships while it is still underway. In their accounts, some relationships are weakened by strain and physical separation, while others are strengthened as couples come together to face war-related crises. Some observe that the war intensified relationship dynamics that were muted before Russia’s full-scale attack. Informants also point to acceleration of new relationships, especially with soldiers: rapid progression to marriage, reflecting a desire to “live for today.” Thus, war-related uncertainties can lead young people to accelerate rather than delay key life course events. Finally, the interviews highlight how the war has both heightened and undermined traditional gender norms and power dynamics within relationships.
The format of the seminar is face-to-face only. Due to the venue’s capacity restriction, participants’ places will be reserved on a first-come-first-served basis.
• SUNY Distinguished Professor
• Director, Center for China Studies
• Department of Sociology, SUNY Buffalo State University
Date: 13 May 2024
Time: 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Hong Kong Time)
Venue: Room 422, Sino Building, CUHK
Format: On-site participation only
Language: English
Organizers: Department of Sociology, CUHK
Health Cluster, Center for Population Research (CPR), CUHK
For more details about the seminar, please refer to the attached poster. If you are interested in joining the seminar, please register at https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13686887.
Due to the venue’s capacity restriction, participants’ places will be reserved on a first-come-first-served basis.
For any enquiries, please contact us at (852) 39436271 or sociology@cuhk.edu.hk.
We are pleased to announce a forthcoming seminar titled “Publishing a local study for a global audience: Challenges and Strategies” featuring Prof. Wes Xiaodong LIN, Associate Professor in Global Sustainable Development at the University of Warwick. This seminar is organized by Hong Kong Sociological Association (HKSA).
Seminar: Publishing a local study for a global audience: Challenges and Strategies
Speaker: Prof. Wes Xiaodong LIN,
• Associate Professor in Global Sustainable Development at the University of Warwick;
• Editor-in-Chief of the Sociological Review
Date: 10 May 2024
Time: 4:00 pm (Hong Kong Time)
Venue: ZOOM (Link can be found on the attached poster)
Language: English
Organizers: Hong Kong Sociological Association
For more details about the seminar, please refer to the attached poster.
The Centre for Chinese Family Studies (CCFS) and the Faculty of Social Science, CUHK are to host a virtual seminar via Zoom on 25 April (Thursday). We welcome you all to register and participate. Please find the detailed information as follows:
Topic: (Not) Return to Work: A Comparative Study of Chinese Stay-at-home Mothers in Shanghai, Singapore, and New York
Speaker: Dr. Felicia F. Tian, Professor, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University
Time: 9:30am-11:00am, 25 April 2024 (Thursday, HK Time)
Venue: Zoom (ZOOM Link will be sent to registered audience after finished the e-registration.)
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=2286350
You can also refer to the poster attached to find more information about the seminar.
If you have any questions about the seminar, feel free to contact us (ccfs@cuhk.edu.hk).