Postcolonial Structural Violence: A Study of School Violence in Trinidad & Tobago

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dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Hakim
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-19T18:43:47Z
dc.date.available2024-09-19T18:43:47Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThe Caribbean region, per capita, is one of the most violent in the world. Trinidad & Tobago (TT), an economic powerhouse, has been bedeviled by violence. Unsurprisingly, school violence has escalated; however, there is a paucity of data. In this case study, I employed a critical peace education and postcolonial studies framework to examine how school violence is conceptualized. The research site - a product of postcolonial educational expansion - is a co-educational secondary school in TT, and is nationally stigmatized for its violent notoriety and persistent academic underperformance. Observations, 33 semi-structured interviews, and 9 focus groups/classroom discussions (with a total of 84 students) were conducted over a 7-month period in 2010, with a 3-week follow-up in 2013. My data illustrate how youth are the main analytic unit in the discourse around school violence; a discourse from which the structural role of the school is mostly omitted, as well as the lingering impact of a contemporaneously bifurcated educational system that was created during the colonial era. These omissions may serve to reinforce/perpetuate TT’s class-stratified society; this constitutes discursive violence, but more specifically, as its iteration in this case study, postcolonial structural violence. Such discursive violence is both a neocolonial product and enabler of the structural violence that maintains educational inequity in TT.
dc.identifier.urihttps://www3.gmu.edu/programs/icar/ijps/Vol18_2/V18-N2Williams.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2139/56982
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesInternational Journal of Peace Studies, Volume 18, Number 2
dc.subjectpostcolonial
dc.subjectstructural violence
dc.subjectschool violence
dc.titlePostcolonial Structural Violence: A Study of School Violence in Trinidad & Tobago
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