ABSTRACT

This paper examines four interviews with student survivors about their experiences of reporting sexual harassment and violence to universities in the United States and England, and their experiences of how their universities protected the perpetrators. Interview participants revealed that their assailants were not held accountable because the university determined they were more valuable than the survivor, whether in terms of the role the assailant occupied or their potential to make an impact in their field. I analyse these instances by combining three theories to show both how power/value relations in the neoliberal university make certain people (in)dispensable, and how these power/value relations are enacted through power dynamics of speech and hearing to protect the more ‘valuable’ party in university sexual violence cases. The article concludes with possible recommendations for structural change.

摘要

本文考察了对学生幸存者的四次采访，了解他们向美国和英国的大学报告性骚扰和暴力的经历，以及他们的大学如何保护肇事者的经历。采访参与者透露，他们的袭击者没有被追究责任，因为大学认为他们比幸存者更有价值，无论是在袭击者所扮演的角色还是在他们的领域产生影响的潜力方面。我通过结合三种理论来分析这些实例，以展示新自由主义大学中的权力/价值关系如何使某些人（在）可有可无，以及这些权力/价值关系如何通过言语和听力的权力动态制定以保护更“有价值的人” ' 大学性暴力案件中的一方。