“Wrong Problem, Wrong Solutions”: Sexual Violence, Neoliberal Universities, and the Affects of Institutional Betrayal
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis explores the affective and political currents of campus rape culture. Paying particular attention to neoliberalism’s transformation of Canadian higher education in recent decades, the author describes a “marketized” campus environment in which school reputation is frequently prioritized above student well-being, as disclosures of sexual violence impact university’s standing and enrolment. The author additionally describes how neoliberal discourses of risk and responsibility serve to download the responsibility for social harms from institutions to individuals. Thus, in the case of campus sexual assault, students bear the burden of preventing and managing the aftermath of violence, in a setting where their disclosures may be denied or ignored. Drawing on the lived experiences of student victims/ survivors who sought support from their universities, the project examines how institutional betrayal comes to bear on their lives and bodies. Institutional betrayal refers to the harm a trusted institution causes to the student, over and above their initial experiences of violence. This project’s participants describe campus cultures in which sexual violence was normalized or ignored; school staff and services that blamed or punished whistleblowers; and institutional policies and practices that caused lasting emotional harm. The author argues that Canadian higher educational institutions offer harmful “solutions” to victim/survivors, in part because of their ahistorical and apolitical conception of the problem of sexual violence, and in part because of the market orientation of the higher education “industry.” Bringing survivor testimony into conversation with feminist political theory and theories of affect, the author argues that institutional betrayal and neoliberal rape culture are affective phenomena, with social, psychic, and embodied components.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.028 | 0.065 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.020 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".