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(2018) Pedagogies in the flesh, Dordrecht, Springer.
In 2014, Oberlin College in Ohio drafted a trigger warning policy spurred by a petition from students who felt some of their learning was affecting their mental and emotional well-being. During the ensuing global debate, a black female professor, Jade Davis, highlighted that for some students their teachers' physical bodies were potential triggers, which makes the interrogation of what constitutes a "trigger" necessary. In some classrooms, the physical body becomes a historical, political, and social site of difference that can trigger tensions and emotional breakdowns. Chimbganda explores her own experience as a racialized woman teaching about race and gender politics to university students who see her role as accuser, not educator, therefore triggering guilt, anxiety, and resentments.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59599-3_2
Full citation:
Chimbganda, T. (2018)., When bodies require trigger warnings, in S. Travis, A. M. Kraehe, E. J. Hood & T. E. Lewis (eds.), Pedagogies in the flesh, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 17-21.
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