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The Epistemology of Violence

Part of the Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-12911-8

ISBN: 978-3-030-12910-1

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Mar 19, 2019

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Chapter 1Introduction

Titchiner, Beth M.

Pages: 1 –17

[This chapter outlines how researchers and policymakers have historically struggled to adequately conceptualise violence, particularly violence in schools. It examines the variety of ways in which violence in schooling is currently defined, and how these definitions influence current approaches...
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Chapter 2A New Epistemic and Methodological Approach to the Study of Violence

Titchiner, Beth M.

Pages: 19 –42

[This chapter presents a new epistemic and methodological framework for the study of violence. Arguing that both idealist (e.g. post-structural) and foundationalist (e.g. positivist) epistemologies are both inadequate, a new epistemic framework is presented which draws on updated early...
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Chapter 3Conceptualising Violence as a Problem of Epistemology

Titchiner, Beth M.

Pages: 43 –80

[This chapter presents the idea that the underlying cause of violence is a specific type of epistemology which the author terms ‘violent epistemology’. The chapter presents a detailed a conceptual framework for understanding the specific cognitive mechanisms comprising violent epistemology, and...
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Chapter 4Conceptualising Violence in Relation to Social Circumstances and Subject Development

Titchiner, Beth M.

Pages: 81 –114

[This chapter presents a definition of ideology, positing ideological thought as possessing a specific epistemic structure analogous to violent epistemology. This chapter outlines how the violent epistemology inherent to ideological thought shapes social structures and promotes violent ways of...
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Chapter 5How Violent Epistemology Shapes the Contexts Surrounding Schools: Brazil, São Paulo, and the Baixada

Titchiner, Beth M.

Pages: 115 –158

[This chapter begins to demonstrate how the conceptual framework developed in Chaps. 3 and 4 applies in practice, by showing how violent epistemology has shaped the global, national, local, and historical contexts in which schools are situated. Using the case-study school of DCX in São Paulo,...
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Chapter 6How Violent Epistemology Shapes Schooling Systems: The Development of Public Schooling in Brazil and São Paulo

Titchiner, Beth M.

Pages: 159 –175

[This chapter demonstrates, through the example of the development of schooling in Brazil and São Paulo, how violent epistemology shapes schooling systems. This history is traced from the use of schooling to catechise the indigenous population and provide a pliant work force during the colonial...
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Chapter 7How Violent Epistemology Manifests in Schools: The Case of DCX

Titchiner, Beth M.

Pages: 177 –228

[This chapter concludes the case study by focussing in on the broad variety of ways in which violence manifests in the case-study school, DCX. Drawing on a large body of qualitative data collected during a period of immersive field research, the author analyses how multiple manifestations of...
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Chapter 8Moving Forwards

Titchiner, Beth M.

Pages: 229 –261

[Concluding the book, this chapter formulates a concept of less violent epistemology and of the circumstances that might be conducive to fostering its enactment. This chapter discusses the implications of, and processes required, to transition towards non-violent epistemology from habitual and...

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