Hidden Curriculum of Violence: Affect, Power, and Policing the Body

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 3
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Issues in Culture, Curriculum, and Education

Abstract

Using two empirical data sets—one with women in India who were survivors of domestic violence, and one with queer youth and youth of color in the Midwest who were survivors of sexual assault—this paper argues that there is a hidden curriculum of violence that can be traced through affective resonances and understood within an assemblage of violence. The author argues that the political economy, affective tensions within media, and everyday aggressions contribute to what is learned through violent inter-actions. Powerfully enacted on the bodies and beings of women and girls, these lessons take place across contexts, from the classroom through the communities where they are learned.

Author

• Boni Wozolek, Penn State University, Abington College