Sexual violence, secrets, and work: Ruling relations of campus sexual violence policy.

ABSTRACT: Campus sexual violence complaints involving students might seem easy to record and report, but university campuses in North America have a culture of secrecy and tend to focus on neoliberal approaches. In this paper, I trace the genealogy of a sexual violence policy from an unnamed university to argue that ruling relations make the current provincially mandated stand-alone sexual violence policies into a performative tool that silences expert knowledges, coordinates institutional practices towards a particular type of sexual violence prevention, and re-inforces a broader neoliberal logic in higher education. I explore my argument in the following three sections: the social organization of the policy and prevention campaign, the rules and regulations of the policy, and the neoliberalism of

SUBMITTER: Ostridge L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11830407 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature