10/30/2020
CDOR DAY FIVE 🎉
Everyday Practices of Dehumanization: How We Produce Our Bodies as Vulnerable and Others’ Bodies as Dangerous
Drawing on a 3-year study, I discuss how educators, like police officers, tend to make dangerous judgments about bodies.
In this presentation drawing on a study about school dress code policies and intersectionality, I show how similar the two patriarchal and White supremacist structures of education (school) and law enforcement (police) work. I argue that sexism, racism, homophobia, and classism in formal and hidden curriculum could be as mortal and brutal as it happened in cases of Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and others. I argue that like police officers, educators tend to make dangerous judgments about bodies. Finally, to stop the harmful reproduction of such judgments, I suggest “subversive repetition” which allows resisting the everyday experiences that produce oneself to address the question that how can we, as teachers, school administrations, and teacher educators, resist those practices that produce our bodies as vulnerable and potential victims and others’ bodies as dangerous and potential violators. I will draw on several feminist frameworks such as performativity, intersectionality, and objectification.
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