Affidavits in conflict culture: A discursive analysis of a custody and access case

In: Conflict resolution quarterly, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 305-326

Abstract

AbstractFramed by meta‐critical Foucauldian theories of knowledge, power, and discourse, but based on a close reading of excerpts from a single case study, we suggest that affidavits, as a technology in high‐conflict custody and access divorce cases, can contribute to or construct conflict they intend to resolve. Issues of agency are addressed by shifting attention away from thinking in terms of a conflict between individuals to concerns of a system or structure. This "place" for doing conflict is seen as a "conflict culture."