Whose Campus Culture? Cultural Change and Discursive Frameworks of Title IX
Abstract
This chapter explores the language of anti-violence activists, university coordinators, and due-process activists concerned with Title IX and campus sexual violence. Using an analysis of 32 in-depth interviews with anti-violence activists, due-process activists, and campus Title IX coordinators, the authors identify key themes in Title IX discourse, including ideas about cultural change and safety. In some instances, activists and coordinators discussed the need for cultural change, though often without agreeing on which campus cultures must be confronted. The authors also found the influence of the dominant discourse of the victims’ rights movement in interview subjects’ emphasis on safety and paternalism.
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Jamie Huff would like to thank the Center for the Advancement of Research and Scholarship and the Center for Transformative Learning at Bridgewater State University for grant funding and other research support that made this project possible. She also thanks her research assistants, Tom Senst and Mikayla Eaton, for their work on the project.
Sarah Cote Hampson would like to thank the University of Washington Royalty Research Fund for supporting this research.
Citation
Hampson, S.C. and Huff, J. (2022), "Whose Campus Culture? Cultural Change and Discursive Frameworks of Title IX", Sarat, A., Pele, A. and Riley, S. (Ed.) Human Dignity (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 88), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 123-143. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-433720220000088007
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:Emerald Publishing Limited
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