Rethinking School Violence

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Case for Rethinking School Violence

Chapter 2 ‘The kid most likely’: Naming, Brutality and Silence within and beyond School Settings

Chapter 3 The Historical and Political Roots of School Violence in South Africa: Developing a Cross-National Theory

Chapter 5 Sexual Harassment in Schools: Issues of Identity and Power — Negotiating the Complexities, Contexts and Contradictions of This Everyday Practice

Chapter 6 Schools, Violence, Masculinities and Privilege

Chapter 7 ‘I’m not scared of the teacher — I can hold him — I can hold him with my bare hands’: Schoolboys, Male Teachers and Physical Violence at a Durban Secondary School in South Africa

Chapter 8 Speaking Violence: Homophobia and the Production of Injurious Speech in Schooling Cultures

Chapter 9 Random School Shootings, Teen Culture and the Representation of Violence

Chapter 10 Young People, Ethical Sex and Violence Prevention

Chapter 11 Conclusions: Rethinking School Violence: Implications for Theory, Policy and Practice