Good neighbours, The connection between sport and domestic abuse
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BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Good Neighbours and the democracy of everyday life. Our neighbours do small favours and greet us on the street. They also, on occasion, startle us with noises at night and even betray us to the authorities. Laurie Taylor talks to Nancy Rosenblum, the Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government at Harvard University, about her study into our many and varied encounters with the people 'next door' - from suburbia to popular culture; in peaceful times & during disasters and across time and culture. They're joined by Graham Crow, Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. Also, the connection between sporting events and violence against women. Jodie Swallow, Post Graduate Research Student at Chester University, discusses her research into women's experience of domestic abuse in the context of the FIFA World Cup and the Six Nations Rugby Union Tournament.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Thinking Aloud Podcast from the BBC and for more details in our terms of use and much, |
| 0:06.2 | much more about thinking aloud. Go to our website at BBC.co.uk. UK. dot-K. I think we're going to get crushed to death, whispered one of my companions as we waited to gain entrance to the Marseille |
| 0:21.2 | Veradrome to watch Iceland play their first round match against Hungary. |
| 0:25.0 | We learned by word of mouth that a mob of Hungarian supporters that tried to crash through one of the two principal gates |
| 0:33.9 | leading into the arena and the police have therefore directed the entire |
| 0:37.2 | 60,000 crowd into the waiting area in front of the remaining gate. |
| 0:40.8 | Well as more and more people arrived at the back those at the front |
| 0:44.2 | waiting to be let through to the turnstiles were swashed ever more tightly together. |
| 0:48.1 | But even as I began to wonder how I could possibly protect our small party we we were surrounded by three tall, sturdy |
| 0:55.3 | Hungarian men in full national dress. |
| 0:58.1 | Don't worry English, misters and mrs, said one of them. We are here to look after you and they did just that with |
| 1:05.4 | comforting words and strong arms well it was an incident that nicely captured the manner |
| 1:11.8 | in which sport can so readily generate quite |
| 1:14.7 | contradictory emotions, factional aggression one minute and cross-factional |
| 1:19.9 | camaraderie the next. And I thought of that paradox as I was reading a new paper on |
| 1:24.3 | women's experiences at the domestic violence surrounding major sporting events. Its author |
| 1:29.4 | is Jody Swallow, who's a doctoral student at the University of Chester, and she's with me now. |
| 1:34.6 | Joanie, it's, your paper's making this connection between sport and domestic violence. |
| 1:41.0 | I mean, about anecdotally, I suppose we've all heard stories about |
| 1:43.4 | men coming home and beating up their wives because their team has lost a match. |
| 1:47.4 | But do we have any, has there been any research done before on this connection? |
| 1:51.4 | Yes, there has. |
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