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• Digital technologies enable abusers to extend their spatial and temporal control. • Technology-enabled coercive control is a continuation of harm, not a new form of abuse. • Technology-enabled coercive control is economical, convenient and efficient. This paper examines how domestic violence abusers utilize digital technologies to extend their spatial and temporal control over survivors. By highlighting how digital technologies have become central tools for abusers to threaten, stalk, harass and surveil their partners, we situate technology-enabled coercive control as a continuation of harm perpetrated by domestic violence abusers, rather than a new or distinct form of abuse. Drawing on qualitative interviews conducted in Seattle with survivors, advocates, law enforcement officers and prosecutors, we show how digital technologies enable abusers to more efficiently and effectively coercively control survivors anywhere and at any time, including after the relationship has ended. This paper contributes to geographic scholarship analyzing the role of digital technologies in policing and surveillance and advances this literature through a feminist geographic analytic that offers an embodied accounting of the way digital technologies regulate, discipline and govern at the scale of the body and within intimate relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the development and preliminary evaluation of the Seattle-based Technology-Enabled Coercive Control (TECC) Clinic, a free consultative clinic that pairs a volunteer technologist, trained in the dynamics of coercive control, with a survivor experiencing TECC. One of the first support services of its kind, the TECC Clinic is a community-based and trauma-informed resource in which volunteer technologists assist survivors with identifying points of compromise on their device(s) and developing mitigation plans. We situate the development of the TECC Clinic alongside a needs assessment that was conducted as part of an ongoing community-based participatory action research project. The needs assessment identified an inconsistency among victim advocates regarding technology-specific safety planning knowledge and gaps in resources for survivors experiencing technology-enabled coercive control (TECC). Preliminary analysis following a 6-month pilot of the TECC Clinic illustrates the effectiveness of the TECC Clinic for increasing survivors' technology-specific safety planning knowledge and its potential as a valuable support service for survivors experiencing TECC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we bring together Billig’s notion of banal nationalism and recent feminist geopolitical examinations of fear in order to analyze two cases studies of fear among U.S. college students and U.S. soldiers experiencing sexual violence. Putting banal nationalism and feminist geopolitics into conversation, we argue, reveals both their compatibilities and important pathways for political geography and critical geopolitics to build on Billig’s work. In this regard, the paper makes three key contributions. First, we demonstrate how the insights and imperatives of banal nationalism intertwine in critical ways with the work of feminist geographers, as the banal is often rendered feminine and apolitical and as gender itself is often treated as banal despite its role in the reproduction of the nation. Second, we argue that the multi-scalar analytic of feminist geopolitics offers a valuable intervention into banal nationalism, as relational feminist approaches to binaries like intimate/global provide a useful model to account for hot and banal nationalism as a single, intertwining complex. Finally, through an analysis of fear in relation to sexual violence, the paper illustrates both the inseparability of banal and hot nationalism and how they are deeply gendered, as certain forms of deeply hot violence and fear are depoliticized through their banalization (e.g. sexual assault on college campuses), and as violence that is recognized as hot (e.g. war) is maintained through processes that are deemed banal (e.g. gender). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]