TeC-FiloLab con Maddy Kenyon: «Unmaking ‘The Rapist’: Racism and obfuscation in operative concepts of violence»
El jueves, 18 de marzo, a las 12:30, en la Sala de Juntas de Filosofía, tendrá lugar otra sesión del seminario TeC-FiloLab. En esta ocasión nos acompañará Maddy Kenyon, University of Waterloo (Canadá). Más abajo tenéis el título y el resumen de su charla, así como una breve nota sobre la trayectoria de Maddy. Title: Unmaking The Rapist: Racism and obfuscation in operative concepts of violence Abstract: I offer an account of what are, I argue, seriously morally fraught concepts relating to sexualized violence, including rapist and criminal. I suggest that these concepts are inextricably intertwined with the 'moral monsterhood' (Jenkins 2017; Kenyon 2024; O'Hara 2012; Yap 2017) that ideologically attaches to perpetrators of sexual violence. These concepts – "implicit, hidden, and yet practiced," to borrow Haslanger's phrase (2005, p. 14) – create such a…
