Launch of the Open Cultural Studies Journal Special Issue on 'Violence(s)'
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This event marks the launch of the special issue on Violence(s) which brings together contributions that interrogate violence as a culturally situated, epistemically contested and relational phenomenon. Through a conversational format in which each author comments on another’s work, the event creates a space to reflect on the methodological, ethical and conceptual dimensions involved in examining forms of violence that are embodied, symbolic, institutional or technologically mediated—forms that stretch beyond the scope of dominant theoretical paradigms. By engaging with these objects of study, the event seeks to foreground plural ways of knowing, experiencing and naming violence(s), and to consider how such perspectives complicate and enrich wider debates on power, harm and social life. The speakers will discuss the following articles from the special issue:
Cristina Basso, Carolina Borda – (co-editors) - Violence(s): An Introduction
Gabriel Bayarri Toscano – “A good bandit is a dead bandit”: Memetic Violence and AI on the Latin American Right-Wing Populism
Ariana Markowitz, Lucy Ella Warren – Stepping Out of Line: Moving Through Vulnerability With Children in Transition
Luz Helena Martínez Santamaría, Virginia Romero Plana – Autoethnographic Enquiry of Sexual Violence in Academia
Carlos Piccone-Camere, Véronique Lecaros – “He Who Obeys Does Not Err”: Examining Residual Violence in the Practice of Obedience Within the Catholic Church Through a Case Study of the Capuchin Order
Yasmeen Narayan – Towards a Reparatory Theory of Creolization
Contact name: Yasmeen Narayan
Speakers-
Dr Ariana Markowitz, Independent Researcher, London
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Ariana is a freelance researcher based in London focused on urban violence and community-centred practice. She is especially interested in how arts-based methods can aid in exploring and evidencing forms of violence that are hard to see and harder to count. She holds a PhD in development planning from University College London and has written local government policy in London and San Salvador, El Salvador. She has worked in 15 countries across five continents.
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Dr Carlos Piccone-Camere, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP)
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Carlos Piccone-Camere is Assistant Professor of Latin American History and Religious Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). He holds a PhD from the University of London and specializes in the history of Christianity in Latin America, religious cultures, and the ways faith, power, and social imagination shape one another. His work combines historical, theological, and cultural analysis, with particular attention to colonial sanctity, ecclesial institutions, and contemporary ethical challenges, including abuse and safeguarding within the Catholic Church.
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Dr Carolina Borda, NHS Scotland
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Carolina Borda-Niño-Wildman is Head of Research, Development, and Innovation at the National Health Service for Scotland's Ayrshire & Arran region. She is a medical anthropologist, political scientist, and Butoh dancer, dedicated to studying the political economy of violence(s), the intersection of gender, class and ethnicity, and identity politics in Latin America and Europe.
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Dr Cristina Basso, Independent Researcher, Rome, Italy
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Cristina Basso completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews. She is a psychologist and a secondary school teacher.
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Dr Gabriel Bayarri, Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid
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Gabriel Bayarri is Lecturer at Rey Juan Carlos University, (Madrid) and former British Academy Newton International Fellow at the University of London. His research focuses on far-right politics, digital polarisation, and visual political communication in Europe and Latin America. He has published over 20 academic works and collaborated with international institutions, including the United Nations.
- Dr Luz Helena Martinez Santamaria, Universidad Pedagogica y Tecnologica de Colombia (UPTC), Research Group 'History of Medicine and Health in Boyaca'
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Dr Yasmeen Narayan
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Yasmeen Narayan is Lecturer in Postcolonial and Psychosocial Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birkbeck. Yasmeen convenes the Culture Diaspora Ethnicity MA programme and the Race Forum at Birkbeck.
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