Identity, Conflict, and Trauma in Higher Education
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Köp båda 2 för 650 kr"In recent years, issues surrounding identity politics on campuses of higher-education have been the subjects of a good deal of commentary. Much of this commentary, unfortunately, has cast off more heat than light. In A Dangerous Place to Be, Matthew Bowker and David Levine not only bring a fresh and lively new perspective to these issues, but - and this is the great achievement of the book - recast the very terms of the question. Focusing on the place of Colleges and Universities as transitional spaces between family and civil society, Bowker and Levine argue that the character of controversies over race, trigger warnings, and campus speech must be understood within the context of, on the one hand, early identity formation, and, on the other, the changing economic functions of the University. This is a rich and ambitious book that raises the level of conversation. It is, at times, provocative, but never fails to be thought-provoking. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the analysis of any of the particular topics it addresses, it will leave one with a more complex sense of what is at issue."-Jeremy Elkins, Bryn Mawr College "'Campus politics', on stage, screen, between the covers, and as an everyday way of life has become a core site of the extreme weaponisation of language in contemporary USA, the UK and some Northern European social democracies. It is 'a battlefield', 'an outrage', and 'a disgrace'. It is 'generation snowflake at its most narcissistic'; it is 'the intransigent oppressiveness of the old white patriarchal elite'. It is... well any of these and more: the invective is exhaustive and exhausting. Matthew Bowker and David Levine, though, are not having any of that. In this timely and important volume, A Dangerous Place to Be: Identity, Conflict, and Trauma in Higher Education, they set out a different perspective, psychoanalytical at its core, which uses Winnicott's Object Relations Theory as the lens through which to examine how early experiences within the family establish identities which may subsequently struggle with voice, safety, self-realisation, and being, and how universities in their own socio-economically imposed re-identification may inadvertently replicate and reinforce these forms of damage. Bowker and Levine insist on the deployment of understanding, not moral posturing, and remind us that the empathetic but objective calm of the psychoanalyst's intervention could offer spaces for the safe, contained development of self-knowledge more useful to young people than being dismissed as 'over sensitive' or taken entirely at face value. Mindful that university staff also feel threatened and frightened, in a study of organizational anxiety that Menzies would have been proud of, collusion is identified as another destructive dynamic that academics in their working world ignore at their peril. Carefully analysed examples of case studies of recent campus conflicts also provide opportunities to re-evaluate one's possibly too blinkered and unserviceable position by examining the unconscious as well as social dimensions of these unhappy, pervasive, over-exposed troubles. Ironic as it seems, in relation to a study which so carefully avoids didacticism, to issue instructions, actually I would like to advocate that this book should be made compulsory. Everyone who works in, thinks about, studies in, or believes they have the measure of the contemporary campus really should read it."-Liz Frost, UWE Bristol, Editor, Journal of Psychosocial Studies "An excellent work with a critical crescendo, Bowker and Levine trace universities' attempts to relativize and compartmentalize students' cultural boundaries into a motley compilation of identities that is then envisioned in a utopian manner. The authors generate a discourse that examines the underlying assumptions about college students as somehow morally defective and in need of indoctrination, illuminate the process by which groups de
Matthew H. Bowker is Clinical Assistant Professor of Humanities at Medaille College in Buffalo, NY. Educated at Columbia University and the University of Maryland, College Park, he brings psychoanalytic, literary, and intellectual-historical approaches to topics in political theory. He has published numerous papers on social theory, ethics, and pedagogy and is the author of several books on the psycho-politics of contemporary life, including: 'Ideologies of Experience: Trauma, Failure, Deprivation, and the Abandonment of the Self', 'D.W. Winnicott and Political Theory: Recentering the Subject' (with A. Buzby), 'Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity: Albert Camus, Postmodernity, and the Survival of Innocence', 'Escargotesque, or, What Is Experience?', 'Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd: Ambivalence, Resistance, and Creativity', and 'Ostranenie: On Shame and Knowing'. David P. Levine is Professor Emeritus in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He holds a PhD in economics from Yale University and a Certificate in Psychoanalytic Scholarship from the Colorado Center for Psychoanalytic Studies. Prior to his retirement, he held academic positions at Yale University and the University of Denver. In addition to his work in political economy, he has published numerous books in the field of applied psychoanalysis, including most recently 'Psychoanalysis, Society, and the Inner World: On Embedded Meaning in Politics and Social Conflict', 'Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity, Greed, and Fine Art: Making Contact with the Self', 'Object Relations, Work, and the Self', 'The Capacity for Civic Engagement: Public and Private Worlds of the Self', and 'The Capacity for Ethical Conduct: On Psychic Existence and the Way We Relate to Others'. He is a member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations and served for several years as a member of the Executive Board of the Colorado Society for Psychology and Psychoanalysis.
Introduction 1. Private Space, Resilience, and Empathy 2. Trigger Warnings and Vicarious Engagement with Trauma 3. Safe Spaces and Free Speech 4. Collusion in the University Conclusion: The Diversity Fantasy References Index