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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Discursive Violence"”.
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The problem with belief: the history and present of discursive violence in policing rape
… assault training, this dissertation examines the discursive development of various rape myths within the United States, and Illinois specifically, while also tracing the development of policing. To do this, I thoroughly contextualize rape myths and their development within the US cultural and …
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RELIGIOUS STIGMA: A PECULIAR PEOPLE A FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF STIGMA ON THE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
… their faith. Today, the persecution continues as discursive violence. Being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bleeds into every part of a member's life, as well as into their identity. When others attack the Church, members, or their beliefs, members use various tactics …
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Narratives of Exclusion: Gender, Sex, Islamophobia, and Violence in American Political Discourse
… to Islamicize instances of mass casualty violence. In each of these case studies, Islam functions as a stable signifier of violence, repression, and extremism employed to define and regulate discursive boundaries around morality, modernity, and national belonging. My analysis of each of my …
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Making “Quare” Spaces: Re-membering Childhood as a Queer Practice of Indigenous African Place-making
… African culture (due to their queerness). This discursive violence legitimizes actual violence on black queer bodies. This research project uses performance as a tool to address black queer erasure and aims to debunk the tired claim that queerness is un-African. In my final thesis production and …
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Empire and the animal body: violence, ecology and identity in the imperial romance
… colonial natural history as a material and discursive violence that forcefully integrates animals into Western patterns of signification. Adventure fiction’s role in this, however, emerges in Henty’s By Sheer Pluck (1884) and Fenn’s Nat the Naturalist (1882) as a conflicted celebration of …