Deutungskämpfe auf dem Campus: Der Wunsch nach safe spaces und trigger warnings

2020 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-387
Author(s):  
Margrit Seckelmann
Keyword(s):  
American University ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Speech Codes ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
New Form ◽  
Trigger Warnings

The article starts from the observation that in German and US-American university campuses a tendency towards neo-corporatism is gaining in importance. This new form of corporatism is characterized by the fact that the lines are no longer following those of “status groups”, but can be associated with the term “identities”. The article undertakes an analysis where students' wishes for safe spaces and trigger warnings come from (in the context of a sentimental turn) and how speech codes (that should ensure such safe spaces) could be described in legal terms.

scholarly journals Amusing Abusers and Humourless Survivors: Analysing the Role of Comedy in Media Representations of Sexual Violence

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-373
Author(s):  
Bethany Rose Lamont
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Date Rape ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Child Safety ◽  
American University ◽  
Interpersonal Abuse ◽  
Family Guy ◽  
Trigger Warnings

This article reflects on the importance of comedy when considering media engagements with sexual abuse themes. This approach is informed by how closely the study of humour is rooted in the analysis of power relations, with comic theorists, both historical and contemporary, grounding the work.The comic figures of both the child sex (CS) abuser and the sexual violence survivor are first identified, before exploring what exactly about these tropes evoke laughter, and what this means for wider conceptions of interpersonal abuse and victimology. In analysing examples of CS abuser themed British and American comedy, animated adult comedies such as Family Guy (1999-present) and Monkey Dust (2003-2005) are considered in the context of early 2000s anxieties towards the suburban dirty old man and online child safety. In the case of the sexual violence survivor, Saturday Night Live’s 1993 ‘Is It Date Rape?’ sketch is considered within the context of 1990s anxieties regarding feminist campus politics, and is paralleled to the mid-2010s media panic surrounding British and American university students and trigger warnings through examples including The Simpson’s 2017 ‘Caper Chase’ episode and early to mid-2010s online academic polemics on the humourless feminist, such as Mark Fisher’s ‘Exiting The Vampire Castle’ (2013) and Jack Halberstam’s ‘You are Triggering Me!’ (2014). The article concludes by considering the changing consensuses for sexual violence themed humour in the Me Too era through the 2018 episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005-present) ‘Times Up For The Gang.’

scholarly journals Designed for Threat: Surveillance, Mass Shootings, and Pre-emptive Design in School Architecture

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 550-564
Author(s):  
Alexandra Louise Bevan
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
Mass Shootings ◽  
School Architecture ◽  
American University ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Metal Detectors

Contemporary political discourse around security, immigration, and terrorist threat manifests in two trends in educational architectural: the fortress school and surveilled flow. The fortress grows out of the urban-renewal movement of the post-World War II era, particularly on American university campuses. This architecture pre-empts threat by clamping down and fortifying its peripheral walls while controlling, surveilling, and limiting the number of entrances. Lockdown procedures, encouraging surveillance among citizens, metal detectors, increased police presences, and data-mining are all tactics at the fortress’ disposal. The alternative, much newer approach pre-empts threat by surveilling flow; that is, inviting people inside the structure and encouraging traffic while relying on more remote and less obvious tactics for detecting undesirables, such as closed-circuit television (CCTV), data-mining, and, like the fortress model, encouraging peer surveillance. Surveilled flow maintains the gesture of openness; however, this is mainly aesthetic, as other methods of intrusive policing take place at less-visible levels. At the heart of both of these articulations of pre-emptive threat culture is the digital-age anxiety about the alignment and possible misalignment between visual and information-based citizen profiles: Does the student or visitor appear to be a threat? Does his or her online behavior indicate potential threat? The profusion of information in the digital age meets this more primal desire to commensurate the appearance of risk with other forms of information-based evidence of threat. Digital-era concerns about how to interpret a wealth of information at various institutional and cultural levels pervade the riskscape in the developed world, and educational architecture is but one manifestation.

The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Use Of Force ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
American University ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
The Third ◽  
Liberal Peace ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Context Specific

This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the scholarship on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. Extending that inquiry beyond its traditional parameters, the volume explores the legacies of colonialism, missionary activism, secularism, orientalism, and liberalism. While featuring case studies from diverse contexts and traditions, the volume is organized thematically, beginning with a mapping of scholarship on religion, violence, and peace. The second part scrutinizes challenges to secularist theorizing of questions of conflict transformation and broadens the discussion of violence to include an analysis of its cultural, religious, and structural forms. The third part engages contested issues such as religion’s relations to development, violent and nonviolent militancy, and the legitimate use of force; the protection of the freedom of religion in resolving conflicts; and gender as it relates to religious peacebuilding. The fourth part highlights the practice of peacebuilding through exploring constructive resources within various traditions, the transformative role of rituals, spiritual practices in the formation of peacebuilders, interfaith activism on American university campuses, the relation of religion to solidarity activism, and scriptural reasoning as a peacebuilding practice. It also offers extended reflections on the legacy of missionary peacebuilding activism and the neoliberal framing of peacebuilding schemes and agendas. The volume is innovative because the authors grapple with the tension between theory and practice, cultural theory’s critique of the historicity of the very categories informing the discussion, and the challenge that the justpeace frame makes to the liberal peace paradigm, offering elicitive, elastic, and context-specific insights for strategic peacebuilding processes.

scholarly journals Enhancing the Student Learning in Engineering Education with the Virtual Reality Experiences

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 874-883
Author(s):  
Ali Sheharyar ◽  
Othmane Bouhali
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
3D Visualization ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Virtual Reality Technology ◽  
American University ◽  
Constructive Learning ◽  
University Campuses

Virtual reality (VR), defined as three-dimensional immersive and realistic environment, is pushing its way into becoming the mainstream in many aspects of daily life. It promises to provide more engaging and immersive experiences in several areas, including training, safety and education. In the education sector particularly, it can increase student engagement, provide active and constructive learning, and provide a platform for visualizing complex concepts concretely. Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ), one of six American university campuses in Qatar, was one of the first in adopting the virtual reality technology in the education and research in the region. It acquired its first immersive VR system in 2008 and the second more sophisticated system in 2016. It organizes an annual project competition to promote the use of virtual reality and 3D visualization in the academic community. This paper describes the salient VR projects completed in last few years at TAMUQ.

Mainline Protestants Begin to Divest from Israel: A Moral Imperative or ““Effective”” Anti-Semitism?

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan L. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Moral Imperative ◽  
American University ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Catalytic Role ◽  
Protestant Denominations

A campaign to divest selectively in corporations doing business in Israel, which began on American university campuses and then ebbed, has been adopted and reinvigorated by important mainline Protestant churches, especially the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PC[USA]). This article examines the PC(USA)'s catalytic role in the divestment movement, the backlash within church ranks, and the evolving positions of other Protestant denominations. The determined opposition by Jewish groups and the dampening effect of accusations of ““functional anti-Semitism”” are also discussed. While its ultimate effectiveness is impossible to predict, the divestment movement is in motion and is gaining consequential advocates.

The Emergence of Gender-Neutral Housing on American University Campuses

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 732-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian J. Willoughby ◽  
Jeffrey K. Larsen ◽  
Jason S. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
American University ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Gender Neutral
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