Fifteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

This paper deals with the diachronic issue of gender-based violence as inherited social practices constituting a form of a shadow global legacy. My research investigates circumstances under which such practices can be transformed through enlightened interventions in the interior of long-established social settings traditionally tolerating violence against women. By focusing on a notorious femicide incident as presented in a Greek TV infotainment show in 2018/19, I look at the paradoxically illuminating role of the latter, but also of family micro-environments, in raising community awareness to such long-suppressed matters. Drawing from media theory and gender studies, I associate the extensive publicity of this particular case in the Greek media with local specificities compensating for limitations of institutions formally assigned to administer justice. Furthermore, I discuss the case in the context of the contemporary global #MeToo movement.