Violent Inequalities

Description

This course introduces students to the study of links between inequalities and violence. It provides students with the opportunity to question taken for granted assumptions about violence and inequality through a focus on class, gender and species. The topic adopts a social justice approach and includes consideration of issues such as links between violence to humans and violence to animals, in particular family violence, animal and child abuse; practical interventions to address gender-based violence, and socio-political causes of violence such as neoliberalism. The course provides students with the opportunity to question taken for granted assumptions about power, discourse, crime and violence as well as encouraging students to think about the nature, form and process of advocacy on behalf of the marginalized.