JSI Seminar: Louise Richardson-Self & Gabrielle Mardon, “Stuck in Suffering: A Philosophical Exploration of Violence”

Speakers: Louise Richardson-Self, University of Tasmania and Gabrielle Mardon, PhD candidate, University of Tasmania

This paper considers and evaluates some of the elastic applications of the term “violence”.

Some of the most well-known applications are structural, symbolic, epistemic, psychosocial, and linguistic violence. Should these phenomena be understood as violence-proper or are these merely provocative hyperbole?

Some scholars are openly resistant to these elastic applications, arguing that calling these phenomena ‘violence’ is no more than conceptual carelessness.

The question that interests Louise Richardson-Self and Gabrielle Mardon is why people continue to be drawn to the image of violence to typify certain phenomena that cause suffering. They identify that it is the temporal extension (i.e., the experiential duration) of the experience of stuckedness in suffering that unifies these conditions. In close, they offer some reflections on the relationship of law to (what is called) violence and where it can mitigate stuckedness.

Thursday 5 May 2022, 6-7.30pm AEST

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CPD Points: 1.5

This event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. 

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