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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 violence can be seen to result from numerous enactments and impacts of violent epistemology at all levels—from the individual to the collective, institutional, structural, and global scales. The analysis presented in the previous chapters is drawn together to provide a detailed understanding of violence in the context of day-to-day life within the school. Examples are given of the wide range of ways in which violence manifests within the school, and the author discusses how these can be seen as resulting from, and contributing to self-perpetuating cycles of violent epistemology, and the non-conducive circumstances that such epistemology fosters.
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Notes
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Think Quest is a piece of software that the DRE has made compulsory for all schools to use in information technology (IT) lessons.
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In this context, ‘marginality’ is used to mean involved in criminal activities.
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In Brazilian Portuguese, the use of the term ‘educating’ in this context refers to the instilling of manners, social skills, and discipline rather than to any other form of education.
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This is a cultural reference to the film ‘Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol’ by Brazilian film maker Glauber Rocha, which critiqued the social problems of 1960s’ Brazil just prior to the commencement of the military dictatorship.
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Here the teacher is referring to the street leading down into the neighbourhood that begins with the law courts surrounded by high walls and barbed wire fencing, is flanked further down by a church and shops selling religious memorabilia, and ends in the school, surrounded by degraded buildings and visible human suffering.
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In Brazil, it is common for children from poor families to spend the time they are not in school selling items at traffic lights on busy intersections of highway.
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All of the above are clinically recognised symptoms of prolonged exposure to stress and ‘trauma inputs’ (Mathieu 2011).
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G is a student.
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The previous Saturday a planned public march against the criminalisation of cannabis had been prohibited by the government. One thousand citizens marched peacefully in protest of this prohibition and were repressed by the military police with rubber bullets, stun bombs, tear gas, and pepper spray (Abos 2011).
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Think Quest is an online learning platform which the school was required by the DRE to use with the students.
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A psychosocial support service for children with severe emotional troubles.
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Municipal Education Department.
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Young offenders’ institution.
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Titchiner, B.M. (2019). How Violent Epistemology Manifests in Schools: The Case of DCX. In: The Epistemology of Violence. Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12911-8_7
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