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Education and the Boundaries of Dissent (97781)
Session Chair: Daiva Penkauskienė
Thursday, 2 October 2025 15:20
Session: Session 2
Room: (1F) Sant Sebastià
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
This paper draws on research that we have been conducting over the past six years exploring the social and cultural dimensions of sexual violence on Canadian campuses. As our project nears completion, one of its strands of inquiry has turned away from primarily empirical qualitative and quantitative studies focused on post-secondary education, to theorizing what might be termed the political economy of violence. This work has taken us into unchartered territory where we are attempting to draw-out the theoretical implications of our empirical research over the past six years. This has also allowed us to as extend and explore its implications for analyzing, understanding and interrogating the historical, social and material circumstances of violence in its contemporary manifestations, particularly in relation to the genocide in Gaza. There are several theoretical threads guiding this work, including: i) the Tricontinental Institute’s concept of “hyper-imperialism”; ii) David Harvey’s concept of “accumulation by dispossession;” iii) and insights from the work of the Glasgow Media Group in exploring the different ways in which violence, as a conceptual practice of the “relations of ruling” (Dorothy Smith) has been operationalized by State/corporate media to suppress dissent and regulate acceptable forms of speech, public debate and protest, particularly in educational contexts over the past 2-3 years.
Authors:
Steven Jordan, McGill University, Canada
Shaheen Shariff, McGill University, Canada
Elizabeth Wood, McGill University, Canada
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Steven Jordan is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at McGill in Canada
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