Event

The Sociology Unit of the Department of Behavioural Sciences invites staff, students, and the public to a forum on violence that analyzes the institutionalisation of violence and surveillance. The forum is happening on Thursday, October 03 from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. at Engineering Lecture Theatre 3, 2nd Floor, Block 13, Engineering Building 3.

At the everyday level, violence is thought of as an immediate, physical attack with visible consequences. This is the violence that we see and hear about daily. How do we think of violence in terms outside of the immediate - in ways that capture the long-term, institutionalised and socially reproductive forms of violence that are often overlooked when too much emphasis is placed on immediate interpersonal crime and insecurity?

This discussion will bring together scholars, activists, and practitioners in multiple disciplines to centre sociological analyses of violence from case studies in the Americas (Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean, USA, and Mexico), demonstrating its systemic commonalities across diverse geographies. Presenters will examine slow violence, necropolitics, and the criminalisation of the poor. Open discussion will follow the presentations.

Speakers include:

- Mireille Linares-Valencia (on climate justice and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development)

- Dr. Tyehimba Salandy (on a Trinidad and Tobago case study)

- Madeline Edgar (on the ‘migrant death crisis’ at the Mexico-US border)

Moderator: Dr. Shelene Gomes, Sociology Unit

For additional information, contact: STA-Behavioural.Sciences@sta.uwi.edu or fareena.alladin@sta.uwi.edu or shelene.gomes@sta.uwi.edu