Travelling Concepts on Air: Violence (S2E8)

In this episode of the podcast series Travelling Concepts on Air, Dr. Tessa Diphoorn and Dr. Brianne McGonigle Leyh invite Dr. Luuk Slooter and Dr. Don Weenink to discuss the concept of ‘violence’.

In this podcast series, Brianne McGonigle Leyh and Tessa Diphoorn explore the promise and ideal of interdisciplinarity by looking at travelling concepts: concepts that travel within and across disciplines. This month, Luuk Slooter and Don Weenink discuss how the concept of ‘violence’ is used in different contexts and disciplines.

Luuk Slooter is an Assistant Professor in Conflict Studies at Utrecht University. He teaches in the BA History and MA Conflict Studies and Human Rights (History of International Relations Section, History Department). He is also a core member of the Centre for Global Challenges and the IOS platform Contesting Governance. His research focuses on urban uprisings, violence, policing, polarization and spatial segregation. He conducted ethnographic research in the French banlieues and several 'complex' neighbourhoods in the Netherlands.

Don Weenink works as a Cultural Sociologist at the University of Amsterdam. His prime research interest is the micro-sociology of violence. This means that he studies what people do when they are in the presence of others, how these small scale social interactions shape and are shaped by longer lasting and more widespread social divisions and social realities people live by, and what actually happens in violent interactions.

Listen to the episode to hear more about the discussion about ‘violence’: Travelling Concepts on Air: Violence (S2E8).