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Tackling Sexual Harassment and Violence in Universities: Seven Lessons from the UK

In: Sexualisierte Belästigung, Diskriminierung und Gewalt im Hochschulkontext

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  • Alison Phipps

    (University of Lancaster)

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This article offers seven lessons on tackling sexual harassment and violence in universities, based on fifteen years of activism in the UK. The problem must be named and understood as caused not by individual ‘bad apples’ but by structural dynamics both within universities and without. Many of the approaches taken so far have used what Audre Lorde would call ‘the master’s tools’ and have made use of naming and shaming and media outrage to appeal for punitive and authoritarian responses. This article argues that such responses merely consolidate oppressive institutional power, and offers an alternative approach drawn from abolitionist thinking and practice.

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  • Alison Phipps, 2023. "Tackling Sexual Harassment and Violence in Universities: Seven Lessons from the UK," Springer Books, in: Heike Pantelmann & Sabine Blackmore (ed.), Sexualisierte Belästigung, Diskriminierung und Gewalt im Hochschulkontext, chapter 0, pages 197-208, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-658-40467-3_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-40467-3_15
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