Blurring Lines: CCO and the Politics of Sexual Violence Allegations

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Abstract

This study explores responses to allegations of sexual violence on a university campus. Augmenting recent communicative constitution of organization (CCO) perspectives with a politically-attentive approach to communication, we engage in a critical discourse analysis of one university’s responses to an allegation of rape on its campus. The findings of this study reveal how discursive entanglements constitute ways of knowing sexual violence and consent, and direct attention to ways local discourses about sexual violence constitute power-relations, social value systems, and identities.

Authors

• Nikki Cannon, Boise State University

• John McClellan, Boise State U