28 Martín di Marco: Understanding violence, femicide and emotions, why do we harm?

Martín Hernán Di Marco is an assistant professor at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, where he is part of the Violence and Violence Prevention Research Group.

Before going to Leiden, he was a postdoc at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, where he worked on the Crimla project, led by Professor Sveinung Sandberg.  

Martin’s research combines ideas and perspectives from narrative criminology, masculinities studies, and anthropology. He studies how serious violence - and in particular homicide – is signified and “located” in life stories, how their relevance is discursively managed, and how perpetrators may legitimize and include violent acts in their biographies.

The article we discuss in the episode can be found here: Fear, helplessness, pain, anger: The narrated emotions of intimate femicide perpetrators in Latin America - Martín Hernán Di Marco, Sveinung Sandberg, 2024

Martin's home page at the U of Leiden: Martín Hernán Di Marco - Leiden University⁠

The Violence and Violence Prevention Research Group at Leiden: Violence and Violence Prevention - Leiden University

The Crimla project: Crime in Latin America - Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law (IKRS)

Music by Morten Qvenild/Uglalyd

Podcast editing etc etc etc: Thomas Ugelvik