Meet the FJDG Conveners #1. FJDG in Conversation with ... Ellie Whittingdale
Hannah Arendt's On Violence
In the first of this event series ‘Meet the FJDG Conveners’, convener Ellie Whittingdale will facilitate a discussion on Hannah Arendt’s On Violence. Each week for the remainder of Hilary Term, one of the conveners will facilitate a discussion about a piece of work, their own work, or idea pertinent to feminist jurisprudence.
This week Ellie will introduce, situate and (attempt to) summarise the broad themes in Arendt’s text before inviting a discussion that turns on the question: what purchase do Arendt’s ideas about power and violence have for visions of feminist jurisprudence? What can they tell us about the experience of violence, power and possibilities for resistance under a feminist lens? In particular, attendees are invited to think about an often-quoted phrase in this text: ‘Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it’. What might this idea mean for feminist jurisprudence?
Please join us for what promises to be thought-provoking exploration, open to all, of Arendt’s ideas, how they might speak to feminist jurisprudence and the insights we might discover by discussing these themes together.
Reading the text is not essential to participate in this event, but the full text can be found on Solo. Ellie will be working from an abridged version of the text: Hannah Arendt, 'From On Violence' in Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois' edited collection Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology( Oxford: Blackwell, 2002) pp. 236-243.
