This article examines narratives by professionals working on preventing gender-based violence in Sweden through a Gothic lens. It draws on interviews with authorities responsible for preventing gender-based violence in one region of Sweden and explores the way national policies are translated into regional action. Our analysis shows how the “reel” is adopted by the professionals and becomes a part of the “real,” resulting in implications for policy. By looking at the participants’ narratives through a Gothic lens, this article argues that local-level professionals working to prevent violence frame gender-based violence as a problem of two “othered” groups: the “Immigrant Other” and the “Rural Other.” Through a narratological strategy of illumination and obscurity, these groups of offenders are rendered both uncanny and monstrous by the respondents—a monstrosity that obscures any violence occurring outside this framing. The problem of gender-based violence is relegated from the site of the mundane to the sphere of the monstrous.

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在怪物的阴影下：预防暴力的哥特式叙事

本文从哥特式视角审视瑞典致力于防止性别暴力的专业人士的叙述。它借鉴了对瑞典某一地区负责预防基于性别的暴力的当局的采访，并探讨了将国家政策转化为地区行动的方式。我们的分析显示了“卷轴”如何被专业人士采用并成为“真实”的一部分，从而对政策产生影响。本文通过哥特式视角观察参与者的叙述，认为致力于防止暴力的地方级专业人士将基于性别的暴力视为两个“其他”群体的问题：“移民他者”和“农村他者”。 ” 通过一种明晰和晦涩的叙事策略，这些罪犯群体被受访者形容为既离奇又怪异——这种怪异掩盖了在这个框架之外发生的任何暴力行为。 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 基于性别的暴力问题从平凡的地方降级到了可怕的领域。